party是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 聚会, 政党, 当事人v. 举行(参加) 社交聚会,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The group had two hours to wait between trains and, as it was taxing thediplomacy of the sober members of the party to keep the Fontaines from fighting each other and perfect strangers inthe depot, Ashley brought them all home to Aunt Pittypat's.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- and is laid hands on--and there's nothin'!Why, if I see one pursuing party last night--coming up in order, Damn 'em, with their tramp, tramp--I see a hundred.
-- But I ran no farther than the house door, for there I ran head-foremost into a party of soldiers with their muskets, one of whom held out a pair of handcuffs to me, saying, "Here you are, look sharp, come on!"
-- At our own door, I found little Jane Pocket coming home from a little party escorted by her little lover; and I envied her little lover, in spite of his being subject to Flopson.
-- "At least I was no party to the compact," said Estella, "for if I could walk and speak, when it was made, it was as much as I could do.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big- endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employ-ments.
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
-- For, as to that infa-mous practice of acquiring great employments by dancing on the ropes, or badges of favour and distinction by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader is to ob-serve, that they were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
-- I computed the number of our people, by reckon-ing how many millions there might be of each religious sect, or political party among us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was an improving party assembled on the auspicious occasion, who knew what everything they had to eat and drink was made of, and how it was imported or exported, and in what quantities, and in what bottoms, whether native or foreign, and all about it.
-- The last party I have alluded to, is to be pitied, ma'am,' said Bitzer.
-- MR. JAMES HARTHOUSEThe Gradgrind party wanted assistance in cutting the throats of the Graces.
-- We are the largest party in the state, I assure you, Mrs. Bounderby, if we all fell out of our adopted ranks and were reviewed together.'
-- Rachael made the tea (so large a party necessitated the borrowing of a cup), and the visitor enjoyed it mightily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our party formed quite a procession.
-- I left my granite couch and made one of the party to enjoy a view of the magnificent spectacle which developed itself, panorama-like, at our feet.
-- The whole party then halted, and the worthy Icelander and my excellent uncle did their best to console and comfort me.
-- After all, I did not come from home to undertake a party of pleasure.
-- He called this adventurous journey a party of pleasure, and this great inland sea a pond!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
-- One afternoon he had been doing the honours of the place to a rather large party of collegians, who happened to be going out, when, as he was coming back, he encountered one from the poor side who had been taken in execution for a small sum a week before, had 'settled' in the course of that afternoon, and was going out too.
-- It was objected by the murderous party that this Refrain was notoriously the invention of a tambour-worker, a spinster and romantic, still lodging in the Yard.
-- Neither party would listen to the antiquaries who delivered learned lectures in the neighbourhood, showing the Bleeding Heart to have been the heraldic cognisance of the old family to whom the property had once belonged.
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