purchase是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 买, 购买n. 购买的物品,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Being allowed to purchase the means of writing, and a light, he sat down to write until such time as the prison lamps should be ex-tinguished.
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:
-- Shall I purchase my freedom from service?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Darya Alexandrovna," he said, "that's how one chooses a new dress or some purchase or other, not love.
-- The old servant to whose hut he had gone to get dry evidently approved of Levin's plan, and of his own accord proposed to enter the partnership by the purchase of cattle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At half-past twelve the train stopped at Burhampoor where Passepartout was able to purchase some Indian slippers, ornamented with false pearls, in which, with evident vanity, he proceeded to encase his feet.
-- Phileas Fogg, without getting in the least flurried, then proposed to purchase the animal outright, and at first offered a thousand pounds for him.
-- Since leaving London, what with travelling expenses, bribes, the purchase of the elephant, bails, and fines, Mr. Fogg had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way, and the percentage of the sum recovered from the bank robber promised to the detectives, was rapidly diminishing.
-- Passepartout thereupon recounted Aouda's history, the affair at the Bombay pagoda, the purchase of the elephant for two thousand pounds, the rescue, the arrest, and sentence of the Calcutta court, and the restoration of Mr. Fogg and himself to liberty on bail.
-- As he was going out, he met Passepartout, who asked him if it would not be well, before taking the train, to purchase some dozens of Enfield rifles and Colt's revolvers.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There had been, he felt, a rush of admiring patients sufficient to justify them in the one thing Leora and he longed to do, the thing about which they whispered at night: the purchase of a motor car for his country calls.
-- Thereafter Martin had to purchase drugs from St. Paul, over-crowd his tiny laboratory, and prepare his own pills and ointments, looking in a homesick way at the rarely used test-tubes and the dust gathering on the bell glass of his microscope, while Pete Yeska joined with the Norbloms in Whispering, "This new doc here ain't any good.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What would they say, who made so lightof money, if they could know how I had scraped my halfpencetogether, for the purchase of my daily saveloy and beer, or myslices of pudding?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had, by that time, realised an easy competence enough to secure the purchase of a little estate adjoining Highbury, which he had always longed for enough to marry a wom-an as portionless even as Miss Taylor, and to live according to the wishes of his own friendly and social disposition.
-- It was now some time since Miss Taylor had begun to in-fluence his schemes; but as it was not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth, it had not shaken his determination of never settling till he could purchase Randalls, and the sale of Randalls was long looked forward to; but he had gone steadily on, with these objects in view, till they were accom-plished.
-- Mr. Suckling, who has been eleven years a resident at Maple Grove, and whose fa-ther had it before him I believe, at least I am almost sure that old Mr. Suckling had completed the purchase before his death.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Troy went on "I shall soon purchase my discharge, and then ""But I wish you to hasten on this marriage!It will be better for you both.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he be-stowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solic-ited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was about to take another bite, and had just got his head on one side for a good purchase on it, when his eye fell on me, and he saw that my bread and butter was gone.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds.
-- When I was a little refreshed, I went up into the country, resolving to deliv-er myself to the first savages I should meet, and purchase my life from them by some bracelets, glass rings, and other toys, which sailors usually provide themselves with in those voyages, and whereof I had some about me.
-- Whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; 'that when a Ya-hoo had got a great store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest cloth-ing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Time, sticking to him, passed him on into Bounderby's Bank, made him an inmate of Bounderby's house, necessitated the purchase of his first razor, and exercised him diligently in his calculations relative to number one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The principal chimney-sweep of that fashionable quarter lived at the blind end of Mews Street; and the same corner contained an establishment much frequented about early morning and twilight for the purchase of wine-bottles and kitchen-stuff.
-- Such a purchase would involve not only a great legitimate political influence, but some half-dozen church presentations of considerable annual value.
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