famous是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 著名的,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Once, I remember carryingmy own bread (which I had brought from home in the morning)under my arm, wrapped in a piece of paper, like a book, and goingto a famous alamode beef-house near Drury Lane, and ordering a'small plate' of that delicacy to eat with it.
-- How it ever came about, that the Doctorbegan to read out scraps of the famous Dictionary, in these walks, Inever knew; perhaps he felt it all the same, at first, as reading to 240himself.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My mother says the orchard was always famous in her younger days.
-- Donwell was famous for its straw-berry-beds, which seemed a plea for the invitation: but no plea was necessary; cabbage-beds would have been enough to tempt the lady, who only wanted to be going somewhere.
-- I could suppose she might in time but can she already? Did not you misunderstand him? You were both talking of other things; of business, shows of cattle, or new drills and might not you, in the confusion of so many subjects, mistake him? It was not Harriet's hand that he was certain of it was the dimen-sions of some famous ox.'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He doesn't give you much himself, but he sometimes sends you with a message to ladies who fork out famous tips; they are dressed grandly, too."
-- Off with you, old chap," he said, 莽卢卢20 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 bringing down a hand on Christophe's head, and spinning the man round like a thimble; "you will have a famous tip."
-- He was in the secret of the famous scarcity of grain, and laid the foundation of his fortune in those days by selling flour for ten times its cost.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And she could see people and many lights and hear music and view for herself the lovelylaces and frocks and frills that the famous Captain Butler had run through the blockade on his last trip.
-- It Was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had come fromCharleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butlerhad run the blockade.
-- "Why, you you mustbe the famous Captain Butler we've been hearing so much about the blockade runner.
-- How you do run on!As if everybody didn't know how famous you are and how brave and what a what a " "I am disappointed in you," he said.
-- She went back toward her father with me reviving liquor, thanking Heaven that the famous O'Hara head had notbeen able to survive last night's bout and wondering suddenly if Rhett Butler had had anything to do with that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Famous clients of ours that got us a world of credit.
-- I'm famous for it."
-- As I giv' you to understand just now, I'm famous for it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said the ass; 'upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about?'
-- Tom, however, was still not disheartened; and thinking the wolf would not dislike having some chat with him as he was going along, he called out, 'My good friend, I can show you a famous treat.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A nice workman, who was famous for little curi-osities, undertook to make me two chairs, with backs and frames, of a substance not unlike ivory, and two tables, with a cabinet to put my things in.
-- But, not to detract from a nation, to which, during my life, I 138 Gulliver's Travelsshall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be al-lowed, that whatever this famous tower wants in height, is amply made up in beauty and strength: for the walls are near a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides with statues of gods and emperors, cut in marble, larger than the life, placed in their several niches.
-- I was complaining of a small fit of the colic, upon which my conductor led me into a room where a great physician resided, who was famous for curing that disease, by con-trary operations from the same instrument.
-- I descended so low, as to desire some English yeoman 254 Gulliver's Travelsof the old stamp might be summoned to appear; once so famous for the simplicity of their manners, diet, and dress; for justice in their dealings; for their true spirit of liberty; for their valour, and love of their country.
-- 'Add to this, the pleasure of seeing the various revolu-tions of states and empires; the changes in the lower and 265upper world; ancient cities in ruins, and obscure villages become the seats of kings; famous rivers lessening into shallow brooks; the ocean leaving one coast dry, and over-whelming another; the discovery of many countries yet unknown; barbarity overrunning the politest nations, and the most barbarous become civilized.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous ruminating quadruped with several stomachs.
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