ceremony是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 典礼, 仪式, 礼节，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had nothing else to do, poor fellow, except at a certain hour of every afternoon to "go to Lloyd's"--in observance of a ceremony of seeing his principal, I think.
-- The remains of my poor sister had been brought round by the kitchen door, and, it being a point of Undertaking ceremony that the six bearers must be stifled and blinded under a horrible black velvet housing with a white border, the whole looked like a blind monster with twelve human legs, shuffling and blundering along, under the guidance of two keepers,--the postboy and his comrade.
-- the old gentleman, not in the least knowing what point of the ceremony we had arrived at, stood most amiably beaming at the ten commandments.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ceremony is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state, where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very dif-ferent from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the new or old world.
-- But I was afterward given privately to understand, that his imperial majesty, never imagining I had the least notice of his designs, believed I was only gone to Blefuscu in performance of my promise, according to the license he had given me, which was well known at our court, and would return in a few days, when the ceremony was ended.
-- To this I added another petition, 'that for the sake of my patron the king of Luggnagg, his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed on my countrymen, of trampling upon the cru-cifix: because I had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes, without any intention of trading.'
-- Before we took shipping, I was often asked by some of the crew, whether I had performed the ceremony above mentioned?
-- I began to think that this house must belong to some person of great note among them, because there appeared so much ceremony before I could gain ad-mittance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the ceremony was performing, and while he recognized among the witnesses some whom he knew to be living, and many whom he knew to be dead, darkness came on, succeeded by the shining of a tremendous light.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ceremony concluded to the satisfaction of all parties, we all sat down to table, that is twenty-four of us, somewhat crowded.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was dressed and trimmed into no ceremony of expression.
-- This was to keep up the ceremony and pretence of his having no idea that Amy herself went out by the day to work.
-- The ceremony was effective up to a certain point, and would have been wholly so throughout, if Miss Rugg, as she raised her glass to her lips in completion of it, had not happened to look at Young John; when she was again so overcome by the contemptible comicality of his disinterestedness as to splutter some ambrosial drops of rum and water around, and withdraw in confusion.
-- A stiff commissariat officer of sixty, famous as a martinet, had then become enamoured of the gravity with which she drove the proprieties four-in-hand through the cathedral town society, and had solicited to be taken beside her on the box of the cool coach of ceremony to which that team was harnessed.
-- 'My dear good man I use no ceremony with you, because we are a kind of relations; positively, Mama Meagles,' exclaimed Mrs Gowan cheerfully, as if the absurd coincidence then flashed upon her for the first time, 'a kind of relations!My dear good man, in this world none of us can have everything our own way.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last words were in answer to the look the elder lady gave him, a kindly questioning look which the handsome eyes met so frankly that the little ceremony closed, as usual, with a motherly kiss.
-- During the ceremony the boys had mysteriously dis-appeared, and when Mrs. March had tried to thank her children, and broken down, while Teddy wiped her eyes on his pinafore, the Professor suddenly began to sing.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grace being said, for those people have their grace as well as we though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.
-- After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over.
-- With a hoarse grunt of contempt, Mr. Sikes seized the glass, and threw the remainder of its contents into the ashes: as a preparatory ceremony to filling it again for himself: which he did at once.
-- CHAPTER XXVII ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallantry to involve in the same neglect a lady on whom that beadle had looked with an eye of tenderness and affection, and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words--trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated--hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands.
-- CHAPTER XXX RELATES WHAT OLIVER'S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM With many loquacious assurances that they would be agreeably surprised in the aspect of the criminal, the doctor drew the young lady's arm through one of his; and offering his disengaged hand to Mrs. Maylie, led them, with much ceremony and stateliness, upstairs.
-- Shortly remarking that their roads were different, he departed, without more ceremony than an emphatic repetition of the hour of appointment for the following night.
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