ginger是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 姜, 生姜,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Barney poured, from a bottle plainly marked Ginger Ale, two glasses of powerful and appalling raw whiskey, and Clif and Martin took them to the table in the corner.
-- Saturday evening they went solemnly to the motion pictures--one- and two-reel films with Cowboy Billy Anderson and a girl later to be famous as Mary Pickford--and solemnly they discussed the non- existent plots as they returned, unconscious of other people on the streets; but when they walked into the country on a Sunday (with four sandwiches and a bottle of ginger ale in his threadbare pockets), he chased her up-hill and down-gully, and they lost their solemnity in joyous childishness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Raymond is a witness what ginger and sal volatile I am obliged to take in the night.
-- "Without expecting any thanks, or anything of the sort," resumed Camilla, "I have remained in that state, hours and hours, and Raymond is a witness of the extent to which I have choked, and what the total inefficacy of ginger has been, and I have been heard at the piano-forte tuner's across the street, where the poor mistaken children have even supposed it to be pigeons cooing at a distance,--and now to be told--" Here Camilla put her hand to her throat, and began to be quite chemical as to the formation of new combinations there.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No!hands him, ye gods!hands him a cup of tepid ginger and water!
-- Ginger!is ginger the sort of fuel you use, Dough-boy, to kindle a fire in this shivering cannibal?
-- "It was not me," cried Dough-Boy, "it was Aunt Charity that brought the ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits, but only this ginger-jub so she called it."
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was the doughty doughnut, the tender olykoek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole fam-ily of cakes.
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