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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This magnificent bird is the king of the Southern Andes, and was formerly worshiped by the Incas.
-- "He reminds me of your great Shakespeare's boatswain in the ‘Tempest,' who says to the king on board: ‘Hence!What care these roarers for the name of king?
-- It was the NARDOU, a cryptogamous plant of the family Marsilacea, and the same which kept Burke and King alive in the deserts of the interior.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In fifteen years people will say, 'Look, that's Ivolgin, the king of the Jews!'
-- 'If you are to be a Jew,' he said, 'do it properly squeeze people right and left, show some character; be the King of the Jews while you are about it.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?"
-- For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.
-- But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a new face altogether, and, then, independent, hilarious little Flask enters King Ahab's presence, in the character of Abjectus, or the Slave.
-- To have been Belshazzar, King of Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously, therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sir Wil- liam Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.
-- 'If you will only tell me what sort of girl Miss King is, I shall know what to think.'
-- How differently did everything now appear in which he was concerned!His attentions to Miss King were now the consequence of views solely and hatefully mercenary; and the mediocrity of her fortune proved no longer the modera-tion of his wishes, but his eagerness to grasp at anything.
-- 'And Mary King is safe!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as soon as it grew dusk in the evening, I changed my course, and steered directly south and by east, bending my course a little towards the east, that I might keep in with the shore; and having a fair, fresh gale of wind, and a smooth, quiet sea, I made such sail that I believe by the next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when I first made the land, I could not be less than one hundred and fifty miles south of Sallee; quite beyond the Emperor of Morocco's domin-ions, or indeed of any other king thereabouts, for we saw no people.
-- I descended a little on the side of that delicious vale, surveying it with a secret kind of pleasure, though mixed with my other afflicting thoughts, to think that this was all my own; that I was king and lord of all this country indefensibly, and had a right of posses-sion; and if I could convey it, I might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England.
-- I had nothing to covet, for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying; I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of: there were no rivals; I had no competitor, none to dis-pute sovereignty or command with me: I might have raised ship-loadings of corn, but I had no use for it; so I let as little grow as I thought enough for my occasion.
-- Then, to see how like a king I dined, too, all alone, attended by my servants!Poll, as if he had been my favou-rite, was the only person permitted to talk to me.
-- My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I fre-quently made, how like a king I looked.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She turned back, resolving to hunt up Storm and King and enter.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hain't hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Soller- mun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er k'yards.
-- How much do a king git?'
-- Yes, gentlemen, you see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled, tram- pled-on, and sufferin' rightful King of France.'
-- But the duke kind of soured on him, and didn't look a bit satisfied with the way things was going; still, the king acted real friendly towards him, and said the duke's great-grandfather and all the other Dukes of Bilgewater was a good deal thought of by HIS father, and was allowed to come to the palace consider-able; but the duke stayed huffy a good while, till by and by the king says: 'Like as not we got to be together a blamed long time on this h-yer raft, Bilgewater, and so what's the use o' your bein' sour?
-- It ain't my fault I warn't born a duke, it ain't your fault you warn't born a king so what's the use to worry?
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