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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was full of gilt chandeliers, red plush chairs, heavy silverware, and aged Negro retainers with gold and green waistcoats.
-- He had buck teeth, and on his eye-glasses was a gold chain leading to a dainty hook behind his left ear.
-- Thus, over certain hundreds of miles, from the gold and blue drawing-room of his Sewickley home, Hunziker spoke to Max Gottlieb sitting in his patched easy chair, and Gottlieb grated with a forlorn effort at dignity: "No, it iss all right."
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:
-- Know then that my wife was educated in a high-class school for the daughters of noble-men, and on leaving she danced the shawl dance before the governor and other personages for which she was presented with a gold medal and a certificate of merit.
-- And maybe Sonia herself will be bankrupt to-day, for there is always a risk, hunting big game 芒聙娄 digging for gold 芒聙娄 then they would all be without a crust to-morrow except for my money.
-- Six weeks ago he had re-membered the address; he had two articles that could be pawned: his father's old silver watch and a little gold ring 96 Crime and Punishmentwith three red stones, a present from his sister at parting.
-- But no sooner did he touch the clothes than a gold watch slipped from under the fur coat.
-- There turned out to be various articles made of gold among the clothes probably all pledges, un-redeemed or waiting to be redeemed bracelets, chains, ear-rings, pins and such things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was but a poor man himself, said Peggotty, butas good as gold and as true as steel- those were her similes.
-- 'If I was ever to be a lady, I'd give him a sky-blue coatwith diamond buttons, nankeen trousers, a red velvet waistcoat, acocked hat, a large gold watch, a silver pipe, and a box of money.'
-- Bring out some ofthe gold you sold yourself to the devil for.
-- Shewore at her side a gentleman's gold watch, if I might judge from itssize and make, with an appropriate chain and seals; she had somelinen at her throat not unlike a shirt-collar, and things at her wristslike little shirtwristbands.
-- I never couldhave derived anything like the pleasure from spending the moneyMr. Dick had given me, that I felt in sending a gold half-guinea toPeggotty, per post, inclosed in this last letter, to discharge the sum Ihad borrowed of her: in which epistle, not before, I mentionedabout the young man with the donkey-cart.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Emma saw symptoms of it immediately in the expression of her face; and while paying her own compli-ments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady's replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold reticule by her side, saying, with significant nods, 'We can finish this some other time, you know.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Oh no, no!That man failed for heaps of money; hundreds in gold and silver."
-- And before she knew what the young man was intending, a heavy gold watch was in her hand.
-- "A gold watch!What are you doing?
-- At eight o'clock this midsummer evening, whilst the bristling ball of gold in the west still swept the tips of the ferns with its long, luxuriant rays, a soft brushing-by of garments might have been heard among them, and Bathsheba appeared in their midst, their soft, feathery arms caressing her up to her shoulders.
-- And how the parson would pray!Yes; he would kneel down and put up his hands together, and make the holy gold rings on his fingers gleam and twinkle in yer eyes, that he'd earned by praying so excellent well! Ah yes, I wish I lived there."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean white waistcoat, and a gold chain and seals which dangled over that broad expanse.
-- His diamonds, his gold snuff-box, watch-chain and trinkets, disappeared one by one.
-- The rattle of gold reached his ears.
-- They buy old spoons and forks and gold lace there, and Goriot sold a piece of silver plate for a good round sum.
-- How can I go into society, when to manage properly you want a lot of cabs, varnished boots, gold watch chains, and all sorts of things; you have to wear white doeskin gloves that cost six francs in the morning, and primrose kid gloves every evening?
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