king是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 君主, 国王,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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The emperor con-cluded me to be drowned, and that the enemy's fleet was approaching in a hostile manner: but he was soon eased of his fears; for the channel growing shallower every step I made, I came in a short time within hearing, and hold-ing up the end of the cable, by which the fleet was fastened, I cried in a loud voice, 'Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!'
-- I had a strong hope, which never left me, that I should one day recover my liberty: and as to the ignominy of being carried about for a monster, I con-sidered myself to be a perfect stranger in the country, and that such a misfortune could never be charged upon me as a reproach, if ever I should return to England, since the king of Great Britain himself, in my condition, must have under-gone the same distress.
-- It is the custom, that every Wednesday (which, as I have observed, is their Sabbath) the king and queen, with the roy-128 Gulliver's Travelsal issue of both sexes, dine together in the apartment of his majesty, to whom I was now become a great favourite; and at these times, my little chair and table were placed at his left hand, before one of the salt- cellars.
-- For, after having been accustomed several months to the sight and converse of this people, and observed every object upon which I cast mine eyes to be of proportionable magnitude, the horror I had at first conceived from their bulk and aspect was so far worn off, that if I had then be-held a company of English lords and ladies in their finery and birth-day clothes, acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of strutting, and bowing, and prating, to say the truth, I should have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at them as the king and his grandees did at me.
-- For the queen, whom I always attended, never went far-ther when she accompanied the king in his progresses, and there staid till his majesty returned from viewing his fron-tiers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, say that the child of a King and the child of a Weaver were born to-night in the same moment, what was that disparity, to the death of any human creature who was serviceable to, or beloved by, another, while this abandoned woman lived on!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The King of Cold had taken up his residence there, and made us feel his presence all night.
-- It has by some authors truly been called the whale of the saurian race, for it is as big and quick in its motions as our king of the seas.
-- I have devoured all the treatises of Cassanion, and all those memoirs, pamphlets, speeches, and replies published in reference to the skeleton of Teutobochus, king of the Cimbri, the invader of Gaul, dug out of a gravel pit in Dauphine, in 1613.
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:
-- Winter was an elderly gentleman now, wealthy, one of the wealthy coal-owners who had had their hey-day in King Edward's time.
-- King Edward had stayed more than once at Shipley, for the shooting.
-- The old man was a buck of the King Edward school, who thought life was life and the scribbling fellows were something else.
-- However, the Prince had been a King, and the King had died, and now there was another King, whose chief func-tion seemed to be to open soup-kitchens.
-- But this is a later stage of King Edward's landscape gar-dening, the sort that has an ornamental coal-mine on the lawn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But his eyes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright pointed weapons with little surface to betray them.
-- That she looked at the candle she had left burning, and, measuring the time like King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state in her belief that she had been asleep for some considerable period.
-- I mention it at once, or you might suppose that I sit in my counting-house (as Pet says I do), like the king in the poem of the four-and-twenty blackbirds, counting out my money.'
-- 'This King had a daughter, who was the wisest and most beautiful Princess that ever was seen.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You said the other day you thought we were a deal hap-pier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.'
-- I heard Mrs. King crying and Mr. King talk-ing very loud, and Grace and Ellen turned away their faces when they passed me, so I shouldn't see how red and swol-len their eyes were.
-- 'Jo, run to the rooms, and tell Mrs. King that I can't come.
-- Laurie is not as respeckful as he ought to be now I am al-most in my teens, he calls me Chick and hurts my feelings by talking French to me very fast when I say Merci or Bon jour as Hattie King does.
-- I know something of it, for I belonged to it before you made a princess of me, as the king does the beggarmaid in the old story.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.
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