pail是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 桶, 提桶一桶的量,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:
-- 'The poor woman can hardly drag herself along, and she must now drag the pail home from the fountain.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was a smallish and slender probationer, muffled in a harsh blue denim dress, an enormous white apron, and a turban bound about her head with an elastic--a uniform as grubby as her pail of scrub- water.
-- After this solemnity Dad Silva took them to a musical comedy and sat between them, patting Martin's shoulder, patting Leora's arm, choking with delight when the comedian stepped into the pail of whitewash.
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:
-- 128 Crime and PunishmentThe floor had only just been painted, in the middle of the room stood a pail and a broken pot with paint and brushes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The gush of tobacco came from the shop downstairs, and the soapy arm proceeded from the body of a servant-girl, who being then and there engaged in cleaning the stairs had just drawn it out of a warm pail to take in a letter, which letter she now held in her hand, proclaiming aloud with that quick perception of surnames peculiar to her class that it was for Mister Snivelling.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The boy led away the horse, leaving the pail with the young woman.
-- She came, the pail in one hand, hanging against her knee.
-- She seemed tall, but the pail was a small one, and the hedge diminutive; hence, making allowance for error by comparison with these, she could have been not above the height to be chosen by women as best.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little wa-ter when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, pass-ing before my hovel.
-- Uttering a few sounds with an air of melancholy, he took the pail from her head and bore it to the cottage himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not satisfied with a dry cleaning, she took to a pail and scrubbing-brush, and cleaned us out of house and home, so that we stood shivering in the back-yard.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bird hastened to fetch some water, but his pail fell into the well, and he after it, and as he was unable to recover himself, he was drowned.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no reply to my question; and on looking round I saw only Joseph bringing in a pail of porridge for the dogs, and Mrs. Heathcliff leaning over the fire, diverting herself with burning a bundle of matches which had fallen from the chimney piece as she restored the tea canister to its place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All which Mrs. Sparsit observed in her womanly way like the Sultan who put his head in the pail of water merely in dipping down and coming up again.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A poor woman came in with a pail a mop, and asked Mr. Cutter if he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish, because she hadn't any dinner for her children, and had been disappointed of a day's work.
-- While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promis-cuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Inserting this pole into the bucket, Tashtego downward guides the bucket into the Tun, till it entirely disappears; then giving the word to the seamen at the whip, up comes the bucket again, all bubbling like a dairy-maid's pail of new milk.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Now," said the Fox, "go to that near-by brook, bring back a pail full of water, and sprinkle it over the spot."
-- A few minutes after, a Bricklayer passed by, carrying a pail full of plaster on his shoulder.
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