cane是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 茎, 手杖, 甘蔗,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Which Farmer-General, carrying an appro-priate cane with a golden apple on the top of it, was now among the company in the outer rooms, much prostrated before by mankind always excepting superior mankind of the blood of Monseigneur, who, his own wife included, looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She waited for him to say more, but he walked in silence beside her, scratching with his cane in the gravel.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Cecil Eric George Twyford, a lean, active, high-nosed despot who owned and knew rod by snakewrithing rod some ten thousand acres of cane in St. Swithin's Parish--Twyford said that His Excellency was a "potty and snoring fool," and versions of the opinion came not too slowly to Fairlamb.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He stepped cautiously into the room, carefully closing the door after him, went up to the table, paused a moment, still keeping his eyes on Raskolnikov, and noiselessly seated himself on the chair by the sofa; he put his hat on the floor beside him and leaned his hands on his cane and his chin on his hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My stars!Butgive me leave to ask you, Mr. What's-your-name'; and here Mr.Creakle folded his arms, cane and all, upon his chest, and madesuch a knot of his brows that his little eyes were hardly visiblebelow them; 'whether, when you talk about favourites, youshowed proper respect to me?
-- I hurried away to the parlour; and there I foundMr. Creakle, sitting at his breakfast with the cane and a newspaperbefore him, and Mrs. Creakle with an opened letter in her hand.
-- So he put on his hat, andwent out with his cane under his arm: very upright, and humminga tune when he was clear of the counting-house.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Troy flung down his cane and put his foot on the ladder to ascend.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Old Angus had never manumitted a single slave and had committed the unpardonablesocial breach of selling some of his negroes to passing slave traders en route to the cane fields of Louisiana, but therumors persisted.
-- he cried, fumbling about him for his cane and heaving himself out of his chair with more energy thanhe had shown in years.
-- He stumped rapidly to the group, waving his cane and shouting and, because he could not hear the voices abouthim, he soon had undisputed possession of the field.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I desired the queen's 154 Gulliver's Travelswoman to save for me the combings of her majesty's hair, whereof in time I got a good quantity; and consulting with my friend the cabinet-maker, who had received general or-ders to do little jobs for me, I directed him to make two chair-frames, no larger than those I had in my box, and to bore little holes with a fine awl, round those parts where I designed the backs and seats; through these holes I wove the strongest hairs I could pick out, just after the manner of cane chairs in England.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the prudent Mrs Chivery perceived that in addition to these adornments her John carried a pair of white kid gloves, and a cane like a little finger-post, surmounted by an ivory hand marshalling him the way that he should go; and when she saw him, in this heavy marching order, turn the corner to the right; she remarked to Mr Chivery, who was at home at the time, that she thought she knew which way the wind blew.
-- His cane alone would have told it long ago, if nothing else had.
-- John Chivery, in his best clothes, with his tall hat under his arm, his ivory-handled cane genteelly embarrassing his deportment, and a bundle of cigars in his hand!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Cutter was in a hurry and said 'No', rather crossly, so she was going away, looking hungry and sorry, when Mr. Laurence hooked up a big fish with the crooked end of his cane and held it out to her.
-- cried the old lady with a rap of her cane as she glanced from the pale young gentleman to the scarlet young lady.
-- But the crowning joke was Mr. Laurence and Aunt March, for when the state-ly old gentleman chass'ed solemnly up to the old lady, she just tucked her cane under arm, and hopped briskly away to join hands with the rest and dance about the bridal pair, while the young folks pervaded the garden like butterflies on a midsummer day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. Mann ushered the beadle into a small parlour with a brick floor; placed a seat for him; and officiously deposited his cocked hat and cane on the table before him.
-- As Mr. Bumble spoke, he raised his cane to the bill above him, and gave three distinct raps upon the words 'five pounds': which were printed thereon in Roman capitals of gigantic size.
-- 'Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches.'
-- Half an hour after breakfast next morning, Mr. Bumble entered the shop; and supporting his cane against the counter, drew forth his large leathern pocket-book: from which he selected a small scrap of paper, which he handed over to Sowerberry.
-- And the cocked hat and cane having been, by this time, adjusted to their owner's satisfaction, Mr. Bumble and Noah Claypole betook themselves with all speed to the undertaker's shop.
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