sir是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 先生, 长官; [S-用于姓名前,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.
-- It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that date.'
-- Our visitor readjusted his glasses and began: 'The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candi-date for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.
-- Though Sir Charles had resided at Basker-ville Hall for a comparatively short period his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.
-- Sir Charles, as is well known, made large sums of money in South African speculation.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We have followed you, Sir Insolence!for your pleasure, not ours to gain satisfaction from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaus.
-- Jove looked angrily at him and said, 'Do not come whin-ing here, Sir Facing-both-ways.
-- It would be ruin; the Achaeans will not go on fighting when they see the ships be-ing drawn into the water, but will cease attacking and keep turning their eyes towards them; your counsel, therefore, sir captain, would be our destruction.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To be delivered into the hands of Sir Wil-liam Johnson was far preferable to being led into the wilds of Canada; but in order to effect even the former, it would be necessary to traverse the forest for many weary leagues, each step of which was carrying him further from the scene of the war, and, consequently, from the post, not only of honor, but of duty.
-- Then we rallied behind our fallen trees, and made head against him, under Sir Wil-liam who was made Sir William for that very deed; and well did we pay him for the disgrace of the morning!Hun-dreds of Frenchmen saw the sun that day for the last time; and even their leader, Dieskau himself, fell into our hands, so cut and torn with the lead, that he has gone back to his own country, unfit for further acts in war.'
-- A few years previously to the period of the tale, this officer was defeated by Sir William Johnson, of Johnstown, New York, on the shores of Lake George.
-- I was sent by Major Effing-ham, at Sir William's own bidding, to outflank the French, and carry the tidings of their disaster across the portage, to the fort on the Hudson.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The ironic philosopher reflects with a smile that Sir Walter Raleigh is more safely inshrined in the memory of mankind because he set his cloak for the Virgin Queen to walk on than because he carried the English name to undiscovered countries.
-- Dirk Stroeve had the passion of Romeo in the body of Sir Toby Belch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as you can't, and as the question is not what you will do for me, but what you will do for somebody else who has a better claim upon you, pray sir let me know what you intend doing.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, Sir Naturalist," said the Canadian, in a slightly jovial tone, "and the Mediterranean?"
-- said Ned Land, "and where shall we be in six months, if you please, Sir Naturalist?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ursula and Gudrun, both very unused, were mostly silent, listening to the slow, rhapsodic sing-song of Hermione, or the verbal sallies of Sir Joshua, or the prattle of Fr脙陇ulein, or the responses of the other two women.
-- "Mr Roddice Miss Roddice's brother at least, I suppose it's he," said Sir Joshua.
-- Sir Joshua was labelled and placed forever in her mind.
-- There was a circle of people, Sir Joshua with his eighteenth-century appearance, Gerald the amused, handsome young Englishman, Alexander tall and the handsome politician, democratic and lucid, Hermione strange like a long Cassandra, and the women lurid with colour, all dutifully smoking their long white pipes, and sitting in a half-moon in the comfortable, soft-lighted drawing-room, round the logs that flickered on the marble hearth.
-- Then came Sir Joshua, in an overcoat, and lastly Hermione, striding with stiff grace from out of a great mantle of purple silk, her head tied up in purple and gold.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a very few weeks from the day which brought Sir John Middleton's first letter to Norland, every thing was so far settled in their future abode as to enable Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters to begin their journey.
-- Sir John Middleton was a good looking man about forty.
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