origin是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 起源, 由来; 出身, 来历,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:
-- Dr. Mortimer turned the manuscript to the light and read in a high, cracking voice the following curious, old-world narrative: 'Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it from his, I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here set forth.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They could not understand the origin of the outburst; it could not be simply the news of Pavlicheff's perversion.
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:
-- As we believe this to be an appro-priation of the name that has its origin with ourselves, the time has arrived, perhaps, when the fact should be frank-ly admitted.
-- Evidence of their Asiatic origin is deduced from the cir-cumstances, though great uncertainty hangs over the whole history of the Indians.
-- The American is justly proud of the origin of his nation, which is perhaps unequaled in the history of the world; but the Pennsylvanian and Jerseyman have more reason to value themselves in their ancestors than the natives of any other state, since no wrong was done the original owners of the soil.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The passage dated, then, from the very origin of the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is probable that both these stories may have had their origin in the simple fact of Tom's shedding tears upon the inquest which he certainly did, extraordinary as it may appear.
-- This defeat had its origin in the untoward detection of a new associate young Frederick Trent who thus became the unconscious instrument of their punishment and his own.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles.
-- They were civil, and only used that odd language among themselves, the origin of which I could not guess, neither could I question them.
-- But, Captain, since you seem to have especially studied this sea, can you tell me the origin of its name?"
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