cocktail是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 鸡尾酒,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He began his search for the brethren by having a cocktail at a hotel bar and dinner in a Hennepin Avenue restaurant.
-- On the way he suggested, "I don't know whether you're dry, like Pickerbaugh, but if you'd like I'll run you out to the house and present you with the noblest cocktail conceived since Evangeline County went dry.
-- Look here, Clay darling, do I get a cocktail or don't I?
-- Get outside of a nice long cocktail and you'll have a new light on things."
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:
-- She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail par-ties, and jazzed, and Charlestoned till they were ready to drop.
-- A mean sort of life!And no prospect!She almost wished she had gone off with Mick, and made her life one long cocktail party, and jazz evening.
-- As for sex, the last of the great words, it was just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever.
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