portion是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 一部分, 一份, 一客,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "This yacht is a portion of our old Caledonia, a fragment of Dumbartonshire, making a voyage by special favor, so that in a manner we are still in our own country.
-- The little house where the three solitary men lived was in the heart of a natural bay on the southeast, formed by the crumbling away of a portion of the mountain.
-- He had only to do with the southern part of Australia—viz., with a narrow portion of the province of Adelaide, with the whole of Victoria, and with the top of the reversed triangle which forms New South Wales.
-- You are going to traverse the most difficult portion of Victoria, a desert, where everything is wanting, the squatters say; plains covered with scrub, where is no beaten track and no stations.
-- A portion of the vapors that saturated the air were condensed by the cold, and lay as a dense cloud on the water.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.
-- 'Mortimer said that the man had walked on tiptoe down that portion of the alley.'
-- It was a long chamber with a step separating the dais where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependents.
-- 'We now come to that portion of his life which has proved to be of such intense interest to us.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, founded on no moral principle, these may well, even in the act of carrying bread to humanity, coldly exclude a considerable portion of humanity from enjoying it; that has been seen more than once.
-- His colossal fortune, with the exception of the comparatively small portion wasted in the first wanton period of his inheritance, went to his broth-er, to the great satisfaction of the latter.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When we cast lots, it fell to me to have my dwelling in the sea for evermore; Hades took the darkness of the realms under the earth, while air and sky and clouds were the portion that fell to Jove; but earth and great Olympus are the common property of all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Cunning, ferocity, and drunkeness in all its stages, were there, in their strongest aspect; and women: some with the last lingering tinge of their early freshness almost fading as you looked: others with every mark and stamp of their sex utterly beaten out, and presenting but one loathsome blank of profligacy and crime; some mere girls, others but young women, and none past the prime of life; formed the darkest and saddest portion of this dreary picture.
-- The rat, the worm, and the action of the damp, had weakened and rotted the piles on which it stood; and a considerable portion of the building had already sunk down into the water; while the remainder, tottering and bending over the dark stream, seemed to wait a favourable opportunity of following its old companion, and involving itself in the same fate.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
-- She is all affability and condescension, and I doubt not but you will be honoured with some portion of her notice when ser-vice is over.
-- Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and mean-est degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and empti-ness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 25Though Mrs. Jennings was in the habit of spending a large portion of the year at the houses of her children and friends, she was not without a settled habitation of her own.
-- She was previously disposed, I believe, to doubt the morality of my conduct in general, and was moreover discontented with the very little attention, the very little portion of my time that I had bestowed on her, in my present visit.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the central portion was the vast wholesale and shopping district, to which the uninformed seeker for work usually drifted.
-- Her feet carried her mechanically forward, every foot of her progress being a satisfactory portion of a flight which she gladly made.
-- On every hand, to her fatigued senses, the great business portion grew larger, harder, more stolid in its indifference.
-- It was a portion of the stock room which gave no idea of the general character of the place, and Carrie could form no opinion of the nature of the work.
-- Yet no beggar could have caught his eye and said, "My God, mister, I'm starving," but he would gladly have handed out what was considered the proper portion to give beggars and thought no more about it.
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