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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He says my brother cut off the gold tassels from my father's coffin, at night because they're worth a lot ofmoney!'
-- All is not gold that glitters, you know; and because a man keeps his carriage he need not be specially virtuous, I assure you, all sorts of people keep car-riages.
-- The prince took off his tin cross, Parfen his gold one, and the exchange was made.
-- There were one or two, however, who were very strange-looking creatures, with flushed faces and extraordinary clothes; some were military men; not all were quite young; one or two were middle-aged gentlemen of decidedly disagreeable appearance, men who are avoided in society like the plague, decked out in large gold studs and rings, and magnificently 'got up,' generally.
-- 'It's true then, Lebedeff, that you advertise to lend money on gold or silver articles?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you.'
-- He came into the fight with gold about him, like a girl; fool that he was, his gold was of no avail to save him, for he fell in the river by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, and Achilles bore away his gold.
-- BOOK IV ow the gods were sitting with Jove in council upon Nthe golden floor while Hebe went round pouring out nectar for them to drink, and as they pledged one another in their cups of gold they looked down upon the town of Troy.
-- 'Father Jove,' said she, 'do not be angry with me, but I think the Cyprian must have been persuading some one of the Achaean women to go with the Trojans of whom she is so very fond, and while caressing one or other of them she must have torn her delicate hand with the gold pin of the woman's brooch.'
-- The car itself was made with plaited bands of gold and silver, and it had a double top-rail run-ning all round it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And him a new guest and wanting to stay!Then she filled the mustard pot, and, putting it with a certain stateliness upon a gold and black tea-tray, carried it into the parlour.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When thou art old, Kala Nag, there will come some rich rajah, and he will buy thee from the Government, on ac-count of thy size and thy manners, and then thou wilt have nothing to do but to carry gold earrings in thy ears, and a gold howdah on thy back, and a red cloth covered with gold on thy sides, and walk at the head of the processions of the King.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Anxious to know the worst, and willing, in such an emer-gency, to try the potency of gold he overcame his reluctance to speak to Magua.
-- It would be better to take the gold of Munro, and buy the heart of some Huron maid with his gifts.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists.
-- "And now on every wall of the old house there is one of my pictures in a beautiful gold frame."
-- In a handsome gold frame was a copy of Velasquez' Innocent X., that Stroeve had made in Rome, and placed so as to make the most of their decorative effect were a number of Stroeve's pictures, all in splendid frames.
-- A mango grew in front of the house, and at the edge of the clearing were two flamboyants, twin trees, that challenged the gold of the cocoa-nuts with their scarlet flowers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Men who lived by plunder, profligacy, and riot; squandering their gold in doing ill, and propagating vice and evil.
-- 'He don't think it's cruel, bless you,' said Kit, 'and don't mean it to be so, or he wouldn't do it I do consider, mother, that he wouldn't do it for all the gold and silver in the world.
-- There was one piece of gold among it, and an emergency might come when its worth to them would be increased a hundred fold.
-- Her resolution taken, she sewed the piece of gold into her dress, and going to bed with a lighter heart sunk into a deep slumber.
-- I see in you now nothing but Nelly's husband, rolling in gold and silver.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Nothing so refreshes one as a cold-water bath and exercise," he thought, feeling with his left hand, on the fourth finger of which was a gold ring, the biceps of his right arm.
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