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《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there.
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:
-- Gold of sunshine touched the closed white curtain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On her little table lay two or three books, her handkerchief, a pair of steel spectacles newly taken off, and an old-fashioned gold watch in a heavy double case.
-- Little Dorrit was almost as ignorant of the ways of theatres as of the ways of gold mines, and when she was directed to a furtive sort of door, with a curious up-all-night air about it, that appeared to be ashamed of itself and to be hiding in an alley, she hesitated to approach it; being further deterred by the sight of some half-dozen close-shaved gentlemen with their hats very strangely on, who were lounging about the door, looking not at all unlike Collegians.
-- Then she added: 'Sit down,' and composed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot.
-- This great and fortunate man had provided that extensive bosom which required so much room to be unfeeling enough in, with a nest of crimson and gold some fifteen years before.
-- He had gold and silver, diamonds and rubies, riches of every kind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'See the cunning brackets to hold candles, and the nice green sild, puckered up, with a gold rose in the middle, and the pretty rack and stool, all complete,' added Meg, opening the instrument and displaying its beauties.
-- It's strong and neat, so I ought not to complain, but I know I shall feel ashamed of it beside An-nie's silk one with a gold top,' sighed Meg, surveying the little umbrella with great disfavor.
-- Gold and purple clouds lay on the hill-tops, and rising high into the ruddy light were silvery white peaks that shone like the airy spires of some Celestial City.
-- I should choose this if I might,' replied Amy, looking with great admiration at a string of gold and ebony beads from which hung a heavy cross of the same.
-- 'Shouldn't wonder if she drove six white horses, ate off gold plate, and wore diamonds and point lace every day.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Another runs to read the bill that's stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description of his person.
-- It was an exceedingly long lay that, indeed; and though from the magnitude of the figure it might at first deceive a landsman, yet the slightest consideration will show that though seven hundred and seventy-seven is a pretty large number, yet, when you come to make a teenth of it, you will then see, I say, that the seven hundred and seventy-seventh part of a farthing is a good deal less than seven hundred and seventy-seven gold doubloons; and so I thought at the time.
-- While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile lowly humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming of the wheels of his vitality in him.
-- Receiving the top-maul from Starbuck, he advanced towards the main-mast with the hammer uplifted in one hand, exhibiting the gold with the other, and with a high raised voice exclaiming: "Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw; whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes punctured in his starboard fluke look ye, whosoever of ye raises me that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!"
-- cried the seamen, as with swinging tarpaulins they hailed the act of nailing the gold to the mast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Dragging an old chair to the table, he sat down; and took from it a magnificent gold watch, sparkling with jewels.
-- The old gentleman was a very respectable-looking personage, with a powdered head and gold spectacles.
-- He soon fell into a gentle doze, from which he was awakened by the light of a candle: which, being brought near the bed, showed him a gentleman with a very large and loud-ticking gold watch in his hand, who felt his pulse, and said he was a great deal better.
-- There are three there, Bill, with a jolly large blue unicorn and gold pitchfork on 'em: which is the old lady's arms.'
-- 'The gold I stole was--' 'Yes, yes--what?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And it was after long searching that I found out the carpenter's chest, which was, indeed, a very useful prize to me, and much more valuable than a shipload of gold would have been at that time.
-- I had, as I hinted before, a parcel of money, as well gold as silver, about thirty-six pounds sterling.
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