sell是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 卖, 出售,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:
-- After a few minute's talk with the Patagonian, the interpreter turned to Glenarvan and said:"Thalcave is quite astonished at the fact, and certainly it is very strange that there are no Indians, nor even traces of any to be seen in these plains, for they are generally thick with companies of them, either driving along cattle stolen from the ESTANCIAS, or going to the Andes to sell their zorillo cloths and plaited leather whips."
-- ‘Well, then, sell me your shirt.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Sell them,' said he, 'and then take seven thousand five hundred roubles to the office, give them to the cashier, and bring me back the rest of the ten thousand, without looking in anywhere on the way; look sharp, I shall be waiting for you.'
-- Her mother was an old, old woman, and they used to sell string and thread, and soap and tobac-co, out of the window of their little house, and lived on the pittance they gained by this trade.
-- This soldier, Kolpak-off, stole some leather from one of his comrades, intending to sell it, and spent the money on drink.
-- Have you managed to sell her to him as you did be-fore?
-- 'Oh!if you will sell it, very good and thank you.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He threatened to bind us hand and foot and sell us over into some distant island.
-- So long as you were alive the gods loved you well, and even in death they have not been utterly unmindful of you; for when Achilles took any other of my sons, he would sell him beyond the seas, to Samos Imbrus or rugged Lemnos; and when he had slain you too with his sword, many a time did he drag you round the sepulchre of his comrade though this could not give him life yet here you lie all fresh as dew, and comely as one whom Apollo has slain with his painless shafts.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Does the captain think he is going to sell them somewhere in the South Seas?'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
-- I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar-cane: I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs.
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:
-- Let us, then, sell our lives at such a rate as shall make our enemies believe the purchase too dear.'
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:
-- It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
-- "I might not feel inclined to sell one."
-- He sold no pictures; I think he made little attempt to sell any; he set about finding some way to make a bit of money.
-- I took them to oblige Monsieur Stroeve, and I said I would sell them if I could.
-- But there were a hundred as good painters as Monet who couldn't sell their pictures at that time, and their pictures are worth nothing still.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Making some nosegays,' the child replied; 'I am going to try and sell some, these three days of the races.
-- 'I've been obliged to sell them, every one, to get the things that was ordered for you.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "If everyone was to get an equal share, then those who do not themselves work would sell their shares to the rich.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just think that, in order to buy me an A-B-C book for school, he had to sell the only coat he owned, a coat so full of darns and patches that it was a pity."
-- "Take him to the market and sell him."
-- Do you know what I can do; I am going to take you to the market once more and sell you as dry firewood."
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