engineer是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 工程师,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 plan was adopted, and orders were given to the engineer to get up the steam.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Suppose a bank director gets ten thousand-- well, he's worth it; or an engineer gets twenty thousand--after all, it's a growing thing, you know!"
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:
-- We look back at this ignorance, or infatuation, whichever it may be called, with wonder, knowing that the neglect of an eminence, whose difficulties, like those of Mount Defiance, have been so greatly exaggerated, would, at the present time, prove fatal to the reputation of the engineer who had planned the works at their base, or to that of the general whose lot it was to defend them.
-- Chingachgook has as many different paints as the engineer officer's wife, who takes down natur' on scraps of paper, making the mountains look like cocks of rusty hay, and placing the blue sky in reach of your hand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The engineer looked fixedly at the man who spoke, and who added, in a low voice, "Captain Harding, will you try to escape?"
-- asked the engineer quickly, and it was evident that this question was uttered without consideration, for he had not yet examined the stranger who addressed him.
-- The engineer understood him at once.
-- The hurricane was in all its violence, it is true, but so clever and daring an engineer as Cyrus Harding knew perfectly well how to manage a balloon.
-- The engineer only feared one thing; it was that the balloon, held to the ground and dashed about by the wind, would be torn into shreds.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And he doesn't spare the money on the way, either: he has offered a large reward to the engineer of the Mongolia if he gets us to Bombay well in advance of time."
-- The locomotive, guided by an English engineer and fed with English coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee, nutmeg, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which were seen picturesque bungalows, viharis (sort of abandoned monasteries), and marvellous temples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation of Indian architecture.
-- "Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!Parbleu!I should like to know if Mr. Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme!And here's an engineer who doesn't dare to run the locomotive into this herd of beasts!"
-- The engineer did not try to overcome the obstacle, and he was wise.
-- The engineer and conductor were talking excitedly with a signal-man, whom the station-master at Medicine Bow, the next stopping place, had sent on before.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The destination of the proposed railroad,Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, ayear later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta, born Terminus,had begun.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The engineer ran to him.
-- The engineer was called again.
-- The engineer obeyed.
-- A door opened, and I found myself in the compartment where Captain Nemo certainly an engineer of a very high order had arranged his locomotive machinery.
-- There, sir!that is the perfection of vessels!And if it is true that the engineer has more confidence in the vessel than the builder, and the builder than the captain himself, you understand the trust I repose in my Nautilus; for I am at once captain, builder, and engineer."
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