week是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 星期, 周,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:
-- If I had had any but a unnat'ral wife, and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral moth-er, I might have made some money last week instead of being counter-prayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck.
-- said Mr. Cruncher, who all this time had been putting on his clothes, 'if I ain't, what with piety and one blowed thing 77and another, been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with!Young Jerry, dress yourself, my boy, and while I clean my boots keep a eye upon your mother now and then, and if you see any signs of more flopping, give me a call.
-- After some men-tal debating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be as well to get all the preliminaries done with, and they could then arrange at their leisure whether he should give her his hand a week or two before Michaelmas Term, or in the little Christmas vacation between it and Hilary.
-- The happiness of his own chosen English home, the ne-cessity of being always actively employed, the swift changes and troubles of the time which had followed on one an-other so fast, that the events of this week annihilated the immature plans of last week, and the events of the week fol-lowing made all new again; he knew very well, that to the force of these circumstances he had yielded: not without 343disquiet, but still without continuous and accumulating re-sistance.
-- Her hus-band saw her (so she learned from her father) it might be once in five or six times: it might be twice or thrice run-ning: it might be, not for a week or a fortnight together.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That day passed, and the little boy went home, and that week passed, and several weeks too.
-- It was a whole week before she arrived; but therein was just the very best of it, for one could thus see that she was of the same species.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On that day of the week and at that time of day people of one set, all acquainted with one another, used to meet on the ice.
-- The week before, Kitty had told her mother of a conversation she had with Vronsky during a mazurka.
-- Not a week goes by without some scandal.
-- Every week he thought less often of Kitty.
-- He was going to see his wife, because he had determined to see her once a week to keep up appearances.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Fogg party dwindled more and more, everybody was going against him, and the bets stood a hundred and fifty and two hundred to one; and a week after his departure an incident occurred which deprived him of backers at any price.
-- Fix still nourished hopes that the robber would not, after all, leave the two thousand pounds behind him, but would decide to serve out his week in jail, and issued forth on Mr. Fogg's traces.
-- Chance had strangely favoured Phileas Fogg, for had not the Carnatic been forced to lie over for repairing her boilers, she would have left on the 6th of November, and the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to await for a week the sailing of the next steamer.
-- The Carnatic, its repairs being completed, left Hong Kong twelve hours before the stated time, without any notice being given; and we must now wait a week for another steamer."
-- It was not a very dignified position, but within a week he would be on his way to San Francisco.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Martin detested the reek of formaldehyde; that and some dreadful subtle other odor seemed to cling about him outside the dissecting-room; but he smoked cigarettes to forget it, and in a week he was exploring arteries with youthful and altogether unholy joy.
-- IV It was a week after the concert that he rediscovered Madeline Fox.
-- But week slipped into careless and robust week, and when he awoke in a stable, smelling the sweet hay and the horses and the lark-ringing prairie that crept near to the heart of these shanty towns, he cared only for the day's work, the day's hiking, westward toward the sunset.
-- A week before examinations, when he was trying to spend twenty-four hours a day in making love to her, twenty-four in grinding for examinations, and twenty-four in the bacteriological laboratory, he promised Clif that he would spend that summer vacation with him, working as a waiter in a Canadian hotel.
-- At least two evenings a week Martin dashed in from Mohalis and studied there.
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:
-- I lay down for a nap after dinner and what do you think: though Katerina Ivanovna had quarrelled to the last degree with our landlady Amalia Fyodorovna only a week before, she could not resist then asking her in to coffee.
-- Nastasya, the cook and only servant, was rather pleased at the lodger's mood and had entirely given up sweeping and doing his room, only once a week or so she would stray into his room with a broom.
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