daughter是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 女儿,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The Turk quickly perceived the impression that his daughter had made on the heart of Felix and endeavoured to secure him more entirely in his interests by the promise of her hand in marriage so soon as he should be conveyed to a place of safety.
-- She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gerald did not see his daughter in theshadow of the trees, and he drew rein in the road, patting his horse's neck with approbation.
-- But it does seem to me that after you broke your knee last year, jumping that same fence " "Well, may I be damned if I'll have me own daughter telling me what I shall jump and not jump," he shouted,giving her cheek another pinch.
-- Shrewd man that he was, he knew that it was no less than a miracle that he, anIrishman with nothing of family and wealth to recommend him, should win the daughter of one of the wealthiest andproudest families on the Coast.
-- While the society of up-country Georgia was notso impregnable as that of the Coast aristocrats, no family wanted a daughter to wed a man about whose grandfathernothing was known.
-- Gerald knew that despite the genuine liking of the County men with whom he hunted, drank and talked politicsthere was hardly one whose daughter he could marry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character.
-- When she was dead, I apprehend he first told his daughter what he had done, and then the son became a part of the family, residing in the house you are acquainted with.
-- I found out within a few hours, and may mention at once, that Mrs. Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight, who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased father would have been made a Baronet but for somebody's determined opposition arising out of entirely personal motives,--I forget whose, if I ever knew,--the Sovereign's, the Prime Minister's, the Lord Chancellor's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, anybody's,--and had tacked himself on to the nobles of the earth in right of this quite supposititious fact.
-- The lady with whom Estella was placed, Mrs. Brandley by name, was a widow, with one daughter several years older than Estella.
-- The mother looked young, and the daughter looked old; the mother's complexion was pink, and the daughter's was yellow; the mother set up for frivolity, and the daughter for theology.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, 'You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.'
-- So she cried out, 'The king's daughter shall, in her fifteenth year, be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead.'
-- But there went a re-port through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king's daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings' sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
-- If the tailor conquered and killed these two giants, he would give him his only daughter to wife, and half of his kingdom as a dowry, likewise one hundred horsemen should go with him to assist him.
-- The hero, however, went to the king, who was now, whether he liked it or not, obliged to keep his promise, and gave his daughter and the half of his kingdom.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
-- My daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has children) was then at her needle-work.
-- y mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child Mof towardly parts for her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her baby.
-- It now began to be known and talked of in the neigh-bourhood, that my master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a splacnuck, but exactly shaped in every part like a human creature; which it like-wise imitated in all its actions; seemed to speak in a little language of its own, had already learned several words of theirs, went erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was called, do whatever it was bid, had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old.
-- My master made his daughter Glumdalclitch ride behind him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the mention of this name, his daughter stole a look at him, remarkable for its intense and searching character.
-- 'His daughter has gone to fetch him, but I can't wait; therefore, if you please, I will leave a message for him with you.'
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