works是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 工厂, 作品, 善行,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This spot and these beautiful works upon it ought to be kept together by the Nation, after my son's time, for the people's enjoyment."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the nurseries of females of the meaner sort, the chil-dren are instructed in all kinds of works proper for their sex, and their several degrees: those intended for apprentices are dismissed at seven years old, the rest are kept to eleven.
-- 'He could easily conceive, that a Houyhnhnm, grew weak and heavy a few days before his death, or by some accident might hurt a limb; but that nature, who works all things to perfection, should suffer any pains to breed in our bodies, he thought impossible, and desired to know the reason of so unaccountable an evil.'
-- I could heartily wish a law was enacted, that every travel-ler, before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowledge; for then the world would no longer be deceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Look how we live, an' wheer we live, an' in what numbers, an' by what chances, and wi' what sameness; and look how the mills is awlus a goin, and how they never works us no nigher to ony dis'ant object ceptin awlus, Death.
-- I know the bricks of this town, and I know the works of this town, and I know the chimneys of this town, and I know the smoke of this town, and I know the Hands of this town.
-- I ha' read on 't in the public petition, as onny one may read, fro' the men that works in pits, in which they ha' pray'n and pray'n the lawmakers for Christ's sake not to let their work be murder to 'em, but to spare 'em for th' wives and children that they loves as well as gentlefok loves theirs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Because Arne Saknussemm was persecuted for heresy, and in 1573 his works were publicly burnt at Copenhagen, by the hands of the common hangman."
-- I come to no absolute conclusion, but there is the man, surrounded by the works of his hands, his hatchets and his carved flints, which belong to the stony period; and the only rational supposition is, that, like myself, he visited the centre of the earth as a traveling tourist, a pioneer of science.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Anyhow I've no starry calculations to be interfered with, and no immortal works to write.
-- On the crown of the knoll where the oaks had stood, now was bareness; and from there you could look out over the trees to the colliery railway, and the new works at Stacks Gate.
-- And the same solitary aloneness she had seen in him naked, she now saw in him clothed: solitary, and intent, like an animal that works alone, but also brooding, like a soul that recoils away, away from all human contact.
-- And then she started car-rying on with a fellow from Kinbrook, I don't know if you know him, an oldish fellow with a red nose, rather dandi-fied, Willcock, as works in Harrison's woodyard.
-- 'You've not seen the new works at Stacks Gate, opened after the war, have you, Sir Clifford?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fact is, there's more to do than there used to be, and the Works are enough for me as I grow older.
-- 'Doyce is highly gratified by your good opinion,' he opened the business by saying, 'and desires nothing so much as that you should examine the affairs of the Works for yourself, and entirely understand them.
-- Mr Clennam got it him to do, and gives him odd jobs besides in at the Works next door makes 'em for him, in short, when he knows he wants 'em.'
-- A dinner of soup and a pigeon-pie, served on a little round table before the fire, and flavoured with a bottle of good wine, oiled Mr Pancks's works in a highly effective manner; so that when Clennam produced his Eastern pipe, and handed Mr Pancks another Eastern pipe, the latter gentleman was perfectly comfortable.
-- He, the uncouth object of such wide-spread adulation, the sitter at great men's feasts, the roc's egg of great ladies' assemblies, the subduer of exclusiveness, the leveller of pride, the patron of patrons, the bargain-driver with a Minister for Lordships of the Circumlocution Office, the recipient of more acknowledgment within some ten or fifteen years, at most, than had been bestowed in England upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two centuries at least he, the shining wonder, the new constellation to be followed by the wise men bringing gifts, until it stopped over a certain carrion at the bottom of a bath and disappeared was simply the greatest Forger and the greatest Thief that ever cheated the gallows.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheer-fully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
-- Jo regarded them as wor-thy of Bacon, Milton, or Shakespeare, and remodeled her own works with good effect, she thought.
-- I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled high with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music.
-- Why, Jo, your stories are works of Shake-speare compared to half the rubbish that is published every day.
-- Laurie bit his lips, and turning a little from the pensive speaker, read the following document, with praiseworthy gravity, considering the spelling: MY LAST WILL AND TESTIMENT I, Amy Curtis March, being in my sane mind, go give and bequeethe all my earthly property viz.to wit: namely To my father, my best pictures, sketches, maps, and works of art, including frames.
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