officer是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 官员, 办事员; 工作人员; 军官,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Icannot satisfy myself whether she told me that Mr. Micawber hadbeen an officer in the Marines, or whether I have imagined it.
-- With awasherwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlour-window, dwelling next door, and a Bow-street officer residing overthe way, you may imagine that his society is a source ofconsolation to myself and to Mrs. Micawber.
-- Of course I answered this note by going down with the boy to paythe money, where I found Mr. Micawber sitting in a corner,looking darkly at the sheriff's officer who had effected the capture.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gabriel had almost constantly preceded her in this tour every evening, watching her affairs as carefully as any specially appointed officer of surveillance could have done; but this tender devotion was to a great extent unknown to his mistress, and as much as was known was somewhat thanklessly received.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And ifanyone should ever suspect that she No, no one must ever know!She must go on making a pretense of enthusiasmand pride in the Cause which she could not feel, acting out her part of the widow of a Confederate officer who bearsher grief bravely, whose heart is in the grave, who feels that her husband's death meant nothing if it aided the Cause totriumph.
-- Rhett pulled the carriage overto the curb, and Scarlett looked curiously at the sweating black men, picks and shovels over their shoulders, shepherdedalong by an officer and a squad of men wearing the insignia of the engineering corps.
-- If she did not quiet herself she would certainly faint As she stoodclutching a lamp post for support, she saw an officer on horseback come charging up the street from Five Points and,on an impulse, she ran out into the street and waved at him.
-- Theyoung officer was was a gentleman."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "A Custum 'Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons," said the Jack, repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt, "when they comes betwixt him and his own light.
-- The officer who steered the galley gave the same account of their going overboard.
-- Chapter LVHe was taken to the Police Court next day, and would have been immediately committed for trial, but that it was necessary to send down for an old officer of the prison-ship from which he had once escaped, to speak to his identity.
-- Nobody doubted it; but Compeyson, who had meant to depose to it, was tumbling on the tides, dead, and it happened that there was not at that time any prison officer in London who could give the required evidence.
-- Seeing, or fancying, that I was suspected of an intention of carrying poison to him, I asked to be searched before I sat down at his bedside, and told the officer who was always there, that I was willing to do anything that would assure him of the singleness of my designs.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off un-perceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
-- And the business of this officer is, when two, three, or more per-sons are in company, gently to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who is to speak, and the right ear of him or them to whom the speaker addresses himself.
-- This officer spoke to me in the language of -Balnibarbi, which, by the force of much commerce, is generally understood in that town, especially by seamen and those employed in the customs.
-- The officer said, 'I must be confined till he could receive orders from court, for which he would write immediately, and hoped to receive an answer in a fortnight.'
-- I returned my thanks, by the interpreter, for so un-usual a favour; and some troops being at that time on their march to Nangasac, the commanding officer had orders to convey me safe thither, with particular instructions about the business of the crucifix.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- cried my uncle, suddenly transformed into a foot passenger--and as angry and ashamed as a dismounted cavalry officer on the field of battle.
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:
-- 'How could they make him an officer when he speaks broad Derbyshire?'
-- Since he had been an officer for some years, and had mixed among the other officers and civil servants, with their wives and fami-lies, he had lost all ambition to 'get on'.
-- 'And weren't you happy, when you were a lieutenant and an officer and a gentleman?'
-- 'And weren't you happy as an officer and a gentleman, when your Colonel was dead?'
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