cathedral是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 总教堂, 大教堂，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：
-- The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as it splashed the river-walls of the Island of Paris, where the picturesque confusion of houses and cathedral shone bright in the light of the moon, the day came coldly, looking like a dead face out of the sky.
-- 'By the cathedral door,' said Miss Pross.
-- 'Would it be much out of the way, to take me in, near the great cathedral door between the two towers?'
-- Arriving at the cathedral some few minutes before her escort, and waiting there, she thought, what if the key were already taken in a net, what if it were identified, what if the door were opened and the remains discovered, what if she were stopped at the gate, sent to prison, and charged with murder!In the midst of these fluttering thoughts, the escort appeared, took her in, and took her away.
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：
-- In the beautiful cathedral the greater num-ber of the kings and queens of Denmark are interred.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the cathedral Levin, lifting his hand like the rest and repeating the words of the archdeacon, swore with most terrible oaths to do all the governor had hoped they would do.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she came straight from the Cathedral to us, told us the whole story, wept bitterly and, fully penitent, she embraced Dounia and besought her to forgive her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iwent, accompanied by Mr. Wickfield, to the scene of my futurestudies- a grave building in a courtyard, with a learned air about itthat seemed very well suited to the stray rooks and jackdaws whocame down from the cathedral towers to walk with a clerklybearing on the grass-plot- and was introduced to my new master,Doctor Strong.
-- The MissesNettingalls' young ladies come to the cathedral too.
-- 'It may be a sacrifice,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'to immure one's-self ina cathedral town; but surely, Mr. Copperfield, if it is a sacrifice inme, it is much more a sacrifice in a man of Mr. Micawber'sabilities.'
-- 'Oh!You are going to a cathedral town?'
-- Our residence at Canterbury, andour local connection, will, no doubt, enable him to take advantageof any vacancy that may arise in the cathedral corps.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir; how hedges and other shapes to leeward then caught the note, lowering it to the tenderest sob; and how the hurrying gust then plunged into the south, to be heard no more.
-- Weatherbury tower was a somewhat early instance of the use of an ornamental parapet in parish as distinct from cathedral churches, and the gurgoyles, which are the necessary correlatives of a parapet, were exceptionally prominent of the boldest cut that the hand could shape, and of the most original design that a human brain could conceive.
-- The announcement had had an abnormal and incongruous sound, as if one should hear of croquet-playing in a cathedral aisle, or that some much-respected judge was going upon the stage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Opening one of the windows after that, he looked out into the moonlight, and told me that the pavement was as solemnly empty as the pavement of any cathedral at that same hour.
-- The cathedral chimes had at once a sadder and a more remote sound to me, as I hurried on avoiding observation, than they had ever had before; so, the swell of the old organ was borne to my ears like funeral music; and the rooks, as they hovered about the gray tower and swung in the bare high trees of the priory garden, seemed to call to me that the place was changed, and that Estella was gone out of it for ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were so many lodgers in this house that the doorpost seemed to be as full of bell-handles as a cathedral organ is of stops.
-- She said it very softly, but perhaps she may have been as audible above who knows! as a whole cathedral choir.
-- Mrs General was the daughter of a clerical dignitary in a cathedral town, where she had led the fashion until she was as near forty-five as a single lady can be.
-- 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.
-- Pending whose appearance, she showed to great advantage on a sofa, completing Mr Sparkler's conquest with some remarks upon Dante known to that gentleman as an eccentric man in the nature of an Old File, who used to put leaves round his head, and sit upon a stool for some unaccountable purpose, outside the cathedral at Florence.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they came up onto the stone plateau that crowns the hill, Amy waved her hand as if welcoming him to her favorite haunt, and said, pointing here and there, 'Do you remember the Cathedral and the Corso, the fishermen dragging their nets in the bay, and the lovely road to Villa Franca, Schu-bert's Tower, just below, and best of all, that speck far out to sea which they say ils Corsica?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped flag-stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Becket bled.
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