gold是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 金, 黄金; 金币; 金黄色a. 金的, 金制的,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'
-- The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.
-- But there they were, in the heart of it; on Change, amongst the merchants; who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in 82 Sons and Loversgroups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thought-fully with their great gold seals; and so forth, as Scrooge had seen them often.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a building at the back, attainable by a courtyard where a plane-tree rustled its green leaves, church-organs claimed to be made, and silver to be chased, and likewise gold to be beaten by some mysterious giant who had a golden arm starting out of the wall of the front hall as if he had beaten himself pre-cious, and menaced a similar conversion of all visitors.
-- It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous dec-oration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the no-ble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips.
-- One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.
-- He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick up, and all the heads craned forward that all the eyes might look down at it as it fell.
-- 'Pick up that, philosopher and vendor of wine,' said the Marquis, throwing him another gold coin, 'and spend it as you will.
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:
-- They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.
-- All we hear or say in a dream that is fair and beautiful is like the gold of the subter-ranean spirits; it is rich and splendid when it is given us, but viewed by daylight we find only withered leaves.
-- Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flamin-ius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.
-- Dolls that looked for all the world like men the Tree had never beheld such be-fore were seen among the foliage, and at the very top a large star of gold tinsel was fixed.
-- The boys played about in the court, and the youngest wore the gold star on his breast which the Tree had had on the happiest evening of his life.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why it was the three young ladies had one day to speak French, and the next English; why it was that at certain hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother's room above, where the students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young ladies, with Mademoiselle Linon, drove in the coach to the Tversky boulevard, dressed in their satin cloaks, Dolly in a long one, Natalia in a half-long one, and Kitty in one so short that her shapely legs in tightly-drawn red stockings were visible to all beholders; why it was they had to walk about the Tversky boulevard escorted by a footman with a gold cockade in his hat--all this and much more that was done in their mysterious world he did not understand, but he was sure that everything that was done there was very good, and he was in love precisely with the mystery of the proceedings.
-- The celebrated doctor listened to him, and in the middle of his sentence looked at his big gold watch.
-- Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.
-- Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
-- On the writing table was a stand of drawers marked with gold lettering, and full of papers of various sorts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day, he had the curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds.
-- These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster the most thrifty, civilised, intelligent, and austere of the East Indians, among whom are counted the richest native merchants of Bombay were celebrating a sort of religious carnival, with processions and shows, in the midst of which Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.
-- Fix," he stammered, "even should what you say be true if my master is really the robber you are seeking for which I deny I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him not for all the gold in the world.
-- The country round about is rich in gold and silver, and more than fifty thousand inhabitants are already settled there.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Against a brown plaster wall was a cabinet of zoological collections and medical curiosities, and beside it the most dreadful and fascinating object known to the boy-world of Elk Mills--a skeleton with one gaunt gold tooth.
-- Bert Tozer, her brother; squirrel teeth, a gold eye-glass chain over his ear, cashier and all the rest of the staff in the one-room bank owned by his father.
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