warehouse是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 仓库,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley.
-- The Ghost stopped at a certain warehouse door, and asked Scrooge if he knew it.
-- Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life for evermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room, as you would desire to see upon a winter's night.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I went down into the warehouse to see if there was any chance of packing and addressing a parcel, but I could not understand the system of checking.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This central room was at once business office, consultation-room, operating-theater, living-room, poker den, and warehouse for guns and fishing tackle.
-- But do you realize if you carry that idea far enough, a man could justify himself for doing nothing but count the cobblestones on Warehouse Avenue--yes and justify himself for torturing people just to see how they screamed-- and then sneer at a man who was making millions of people well and happy!
-- They came out on the warehouse floor, ignoring the guard, springing up as though (the guard said merrily) they were trying to fly, and straightway falling dead.
-- Then Sondelius was happy: "And you watch me!I am the captain-general of rat-killers!I yoost walk into a warehouse and the rats say, 'There's that damn' old Uncle Gustaf--what's the use?'
-- On a warrant signed by Inchcape Jones, he arrested the owner of a warehouse who had declared that he was not going to have HIS piles of cocoa ruined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse was at the water-side.
-- 153Mr. Quinion then formally engaged me to be as useful as I could inthe warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby, at a salary, I think, of sixshillings a week.
-- This made a hole in the six orseven shillings, I know well; and I was out at the warehouse allday, and had to support myself on that money all the week.
-- Accordingly, when the Saturday night came,and we were all waiting in the warehouse to be paid, and Tipp thecarman, who always took precedence, went in first to draw hismoney, I shook Mick Walker by the hand; asked him, when it cameto his turn to be paid, to say to Mr. Quinion that I had gone tomove my box to Tipp's; and, bidding a last good night to MealyPotatoes, ran away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a young lady once, sir, the daughter of an outfitting warehouse of the first respectability but that's a weakness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he drew rein abruptly, almost at Marietta Street, in the shadow of a warehouse not yet touched by the flames.
-- Then, therewas a crash of falling timbers near by and Scarlett saw a thin tongue of flame lick up over the roof of the warehouse inwhose sheltering shadow they sat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the directions he had given us about keeping a yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to the larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg insisted that the yellow warehouse our first point of departure must be left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say it was on the starboard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He replied to their salutations in the same way; but bestowed no closer recognition until he reached the further end of the alley; when he stopped, to address a salesman of small stature, who had squeezed as much of his person into a child's chair as the chair would hold, and was smoking a pipe at his warehouse door.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She could soon tell at what coachmaker's the new carriage was building, by what painter Mr. Willoughby's portrait was drawn, and at what warehouse Miss Grey's clothes might be seen.
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