quota是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 配额, 限额(进口及移民人数),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:
-- McNabbs, Robert, Wilson, and Mulrady kept up their hunting parties, without going far from the rest, and each one furnished his QUOTA of game.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He soon made some snares with creepers, by the aid of which the warren henceforth every day furnished its quota of rodents.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Arrangements had not yet beencompleted for obtaining the full quota of horses, but those who had horses performed what they imagined to be cavalrymaneuvers in the field behind the courthouse, kicked up a great deal of dust, yelled themselves hoarse and waved theRevolutionary-war swords that had been taken down from parlor walls.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres, and long-robed Armenians were collected.
-- The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers, many of whom disembarked at Singapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers.
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