roman是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 古罗马人 a. 罗马的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must know there was a Roman Pope once, and he was very angry with a certain Emperor; so the Emperor came and neither ate nor drank, but knelt before the Pope's palace till he should be forgiven.
-- A man of rank, too, and rich a man who, if he had continued to serve, might have done anything; and then to throw up the service and everything else in order to go over to Roman Catholicism and turn Jesuit openly, too almost trium-phantly.
-- 'Pavlicheff? Pavlicheff turned Roman Catholic?
-- Last year,' he turned to the old man again, 'Count-ess K. joined some Roman Convent abroad.
-- 'How do you make out that the Roman Catholic religion is UNCHRISTIAN?
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：
-- He was painting a group of Italian peasants, in the costume of the Campagna, lounging on the steps of a Roman church.
-- "She was a governess in the family of some Roman prince, and the son of the house seduced her.
-- They were sombre blues, opaque like a delicately carved bowl in lapis lazuli, and yet with a quivering lustre that suggested the palpitation of mysterious life; there were purples, horrible like raw and putrid flesh, and yet with a glowing, sensual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus; there were reds, shrill like the berries of holly one thought of Christmas in England, and the snow, the good cheer, and the pleasure of children and yet by some magic softened till they had the swooning tenderness of a dove's breast; there were deep yellows that died with an unnatural passion into a green as fragrant as the spring and as pure as the sparkling water of a mountain brook.
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：
-- In the distance, the steamer twanged and thrummed and washed with her faintly-splashing paddles, trailing her strings of coloured lights, and occasionally lighting up the whole scene luridly with an effusion of fireworks, Roman candles and sheafs of stars and other simple effects, illuminating the surface of the water, and showing the boats creeping round, low down.
-- She remembered the abandonments of Roman licence, and her heart grew hot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The broad stairs of his Roman palace were contracted in his failing sight to the narrow stairs of his London prison; and he would suffer no one but her to touch him, his brother excepted.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth, Jonah's prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.
-- In one of the mighty triumphs given to a Roman general upon his entering the world's capital, the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.
-- He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin in swimming, which looks something like a Roman nose.
-- Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where we here stand however grand and wonderful, now quit it; and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes!So with a broken throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of ages.
-- From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and with a hooked, Roman bill sublime.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Mr. Bumble spoke, he raised his cane to the bill above him, and gave three distinct raps upon the words 'five pounds': which were printed thereon in Roman capitals of gigantic size.
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