consent是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 同意, 允许,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He sought Cassandra, the fair-est of Priam's daughters, in marriage, but offered no gifts of wooing, for he promised a great thing, to wit, that he would drive the sons of the Achaeans willy nilly from Troy; old King Priam had given his consent and promised her to him, whereon he fought on the strength of the promises thus made to him.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I may have been rash in pressing his consent in a mo-ment of much embarrassment, but I would have proved to him, that however others might neglect him in his strait his children at least were faithful.'
-- 'Alice,' she said, 'the Huron offers us both life, nay, more than both; he offers to restore Duncan, our invaluable Dun-can, as well as you, to our friends to our father to our heart-stricken, childless father, if I will bow down this re-bellious, stubborn pride of mine, and consent ' Her voice became choked, and clasping her hands, she looked upward, as if seeking, in her agony, intelligence from a wisdom that was infinite.
-- I might consent to go into winter quarters, now at least six weeks afore the leaves will turn on condi- tion you will release the maiden.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Several people have suggested that she should go on the stage, but of course I couldn't consent to that, I know all the chief dramatists, and I could get her a part to-morrow, but I shouldn't like her to mix with all sorts of people."
-- When Tane left me I told him I would send some medicine that might be of service; but my hope was small that Strickland would consent to take it, and even smaller that, if he did, it would do him good.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were still several hours to be occupied, and with one consent Pencroft and Herbert resolved to gain the upper plateau, so as to have a more extended view of the surrounding country.
-- "But," replied Neb, laughing, "perhaps the bears would not consent to give you their cloaks, Pencroft.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Before I'd let a man order me about as Quilp orders her,' said Mrs George, 'before I'd consent to stand in awe of a man as she does of him, I'd I'd kill myself, and write a letter first to say he did it!'
-- It was plain that the utmost the pony would consent to do, was to go in his own way up any street that the old gentleman particularly wished to traverse, but that it was an understanding between them that he must do this after his own fashion or not at all.
-- These social qualities, which Miss Sally first discovered by accident, gradually made such an impression upon her, that she would entreat Mr Swiveller to relax as though she were not by, which Mr Swiveller, nothing loth, would readily consent to do.
-- 'At the same time, Christopher,' added Mr Garland, glancing at the note in his hand, 'if the gentleman should want to borrow you now and then for an hour or so, or even a day or so, at a time, we must consent to lend you, and you must consent to be lent. Oh!here is the young gentleman.
-- Therefore if you'll consent to an examination,' he demonstrated what kind of examination he meant by turning back the cuffs of his coat, 'it will be a comfortable and pleasant thing for all parties.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Exclamations of consent and approbation continued to be heard, but the faces of the peasants became more and more grave, and the eyes that at first were fixed on the master were lowered, as if desiring not to shame him with the fact that his cunning was understood by all, and that he could not fool anybody.
-- Nekhludoff was ready with arguments against this communistic scheme, and he retorted that in such case it would be necessary that all should have plows, that each should have the same number of horses, and that none should lag behind, or that everything should belong to society, for which the consent of every one was necessary.
-- For this reason she would never consent to it.
-- "He asked my consent or advice.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For you would have thought men would have been ashamed of themselves no soul would consent to return with us to the Admiral Benbow.
-- But my mother, frightened as she was, would not consent to take a fraction more than was due to her and was obstinately unwilling to be content with less.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- SIR, If you will consent to join the Abraham Lincoln in this expedition, the Government of the United States will with pleasure see France represented in the enterprise.
-- "M. Aronnax, will you consent to prescribe for one of my men?"
-- They complained at Madrid, and obtained the consent of the weak-minded Philip that the convoy, without discharging its cargo, should remain sequestered in the roads of Vigo until the enemy had disappeared.
-- This voyage ended, would he not consent to restore our liberty, under an oath never to reveal his existence? an oath of honour which we should have religiously kept.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her long silence gave consent at last.
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