convict是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 罪犯,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:
-- John Mangles and the sailors, after their first surprise, would have seized Ben Joyce; but the bold convict had already disappeared and rejoined his gang scattered among the gum-trees.
-- The Major and John hunted all round the country, but there was not a convict to be seen from the edge of the wood right down to the river.
-- We need not lose ourselves in vain conjectures, but consider it as certain that Ben Joyce is Ayrton, and that Ayrton is Ben Joyce; that is to say, one of the crew of the BRITANNIA has turned leader of the convict gang."
-- The discovery of Ayrton's treachery had destroyed all hope; the convict had invented a shipwreck to entrap Glenarvan.
-- "Just so; my letter was brought by a convict called Ben Joyce."
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:
-- Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown.
-- 'There's a convict escaped from Princetown, sir.
-- One of these, concerning which I have said little, is the escaped convict upon the moor.
-- At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us.
-- I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not long since I visited a convict prison and made acquaintance with some of the criminals.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The haystacks could not possibly contain fifty wagon-loads each, and to convict the peasants Levin ordered the wagons that had carried the hay to be brought up directly, to lift one stack, and carry it into the barn.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How can they convict him, even if they ar-rest him?
-- And they can't convict a man on what they have against me.
-- In the prison the second-class convict Rodion Raskolnikov has been confined for nine months.
-- In the last letter Sonia wrote that he had been taken very seriously ill and was in the convict ward of the hospital.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted belcher handkerchief?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had no fear, therefore, that any circumstantial evidence could be brought forward strong enough to convict her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now that we were out upon the dismal wilderness where they little thought I had been within eight or nine hours and had seen both men hiding, I considered for the first time, with great dread, if we should come upon them, would my particular convict suppose that it was I who had brought the soldiers there?
-- Water was splashing, and mud was flying, and oaths were being sworn, and blows were being struck, when some more men went down into the ditch to help the sergeant, and dragged out, separately, my convict and the other one.
-- The other convict was livid to look at, and, in addition to the old bruised left side of his face, seemed to be bruised and torn all over.
-- said my convict to the sergeant.
-- At that point, my convict became so frantically exasperated, that he would have rushed upon him but for the interposition of the soldiers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their looks convict 'em when they get into trouble, and I lose 'em all.
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