language是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 语言, 术语, (运用语言的) 方式、 风格,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 182 A tale of two citiesX Two Promises ore months, to the number of twelve, had come and Mgone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature.
-- He had not returned sooner, he replied, simply be-cause he had no means of living in France, save those he had resigned; whereas, in England, he lived by giving in-struction in the French language and literature.
-- Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction; consequently she knew no more of that 'nonsense' (as she was pleased to call it) than Mr. Cruncher did.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The longer he spoke with the boatmen, the more unintel-ligible did their language become to him.
-- They had a language too; but surely nobody can expect that the soul of the watchman should understand it.
-- The watchman's spirit understood the language of the in-habitants of the moon pretty well.
-- On the walls were displayed innumerable inscriptions, written in nearly every language of Europe, some in verse, some in prose, most of them not very laudatory of 'bella Italia.'
-- If you understand the Raven language I can tell you better.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- "What is so exquisite," he thought, as he returned from the Shtcherbatskys', carrying away with him, as he always did, a delicious feeling of purity and freshness, arising partly from the fact that he had not been smoking for a whole evening, and with it a new feeling of tenderness at her love for him--"what is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones, that this evening more clearly than ever she told me she loves me.
-- "I cannot quite agree with that," responded Alexey Alexandrovitch "It seems to me that one must admit that the very process of studying the forms of language has a peculiarly favorable influence on intellectual development.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have to master the growth of the language and so on and so forth.
-- Through that hot summer Martin and Leora labored, panting, and when they sat in her room, over their books and a stout pot of beer, neither their costumes nor their language had the decorum which one ought to expect from a romantic pair devoted to science and high endeavor.
-- Gosh all fishhooks!Science is supposed to mean Knowledge--from the Greek, a handsome language spoken by the good old booze-hoisting Hellenes--and the way most of the science boys resent having to stop writing little jeweled papers or giving teas and sweat at getting some knowledge certainly does make me a grand booster for the human race.
-- Incredulously he perceived women asserting that all Germans were baby-killers, universities barring the language of Heine, orchestras outlawing the music of Beethoven, professors in uniform bellowing at clerks, and the clerks never protesting.
-- And once a hostess who of old time had been proud to know him, a hostess whose maiden name was Straufnabel and who had married into the famous old Anglican family of Rosemont when Gottlieb bade her "Auf Wiedersehen" cried out upon him, "Dr. Gottlieb, I'm very sorry, but the use of that disgusting language is not permitted in this house!"
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:
-- And there was another of them on a steamer last week used the most disgraceful language to the respectable family of a civil councillor, his wife and daughter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If any drop of gloom were wanting in the overflowing cup, whichis now "commended" (in the language of an immortal Writer) tothe lips of the undersigned, it would be found in the fact, that afriendly acceptance granted to the undersigned, by the before-mentioned Mr. Thomas Traddles, for the sum of L23, 4s./2d.
-- To see her laythe flowers against her little dimpled chin, was to lose all presenceof mind and power of language in a feeble ecstasy.
-- 'It is not for one situated, through his original errors and afortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the founderedBark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime adenomination), who now takes the pen to address you- it is not, Irepeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language ofcompliment, or of congratulation.
-- Of a sudden- or so she thowt, youunnerstan- the day broke, wet and windy, and she was lying b'lowa heap of stone upon the shore, and a woman was a speaking toher, saying, in the language of that country, what was it as hadgone so much amiss?'
-- Em'ly was took badwith fever, and what is very strange to me is,maybe 'tis not sostrange to scholars, the language of that country went out of herhead, and she could only speak her own, that no one understood.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There had been no real affection -either in his language or manners.
-- Such language for a young man entirely dependent, to use! Nobody but you, Mr. Knightley, would imagine it possible.
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