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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Could he have thought himself encouraged, his looks and language at parting would have been different. Still, however, I must be on my guard.
-- No suspicious flourishes now of apology or concern; it was the language of real feeling towards Mrs. Weston; and the transition from Highbury to Enscombe, the contrast between the places in some of the first blessings of social life was just enough touched on to shew how keenly it was felt, and how much more might have been said but for the restraints of propriety. The charm of her own name was not wanting.
-- To take her be it only an hour or two from her aunt, to give her change of air and scene, and quiet rational conversation, even for an hour or two, might do her good; and the following morn-ing she wrote again to say, in the most feeling language she could command, that she would call for her in the carriage at any hour that Jane would name mentioning that she had Mr. Perry's decided opinion, in favour of such exercise for his patient.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a tenderly-shaped reproach for his previous delay was the one speech in the language that he could pardon for not being commendation of his readiness now.
-- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes, according to Vautrin, who came about this time to live in the Maison Vauquer, Father Goriot was a man who went on 'Change and _dabbled_ (to use the sufficiently expressive language of the Stock Exchange) in stocks and shares after he had ruined himself by heavy speculation.
-- The eight responses came like a rolling fire from every part of the room, and the laughter that followed was the more uproarious because poor Father Goriot stared at the others with a puzzled look, like a foreigner trying to catch the meaning of words in a language which he does not understand.
-- If, down to the present day, our language has no name for these conversational disasters, it is probably because they are believed to be impossible, the publicity given in Paris to every scandal is so prodigious.
-- ("Come, now," he said to himself, "my language is superfinely elegant, I'm sure.")
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now all was blasted; instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.
-- 'I soon perceived that although the stranger uttered ar-ticulate sounds and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by nor herself understood the cottagers.
-- 'During the ensuing days, while the preparations were going forward for the escape of the merchant, the zeal of Felix was warmed by several letters that he received from 145this lovely girl, who found means to express her thoughts in the language of her lover by the aid of an old man, a servant of her father who understood French.
-- Taking with her some jewels that belonged to her and a sum of money, she quitted Italy with an atten-dant, a native of Leghorn, but who understood the common language of Turkey, and departed for Germany.
-- 'She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquaint-ed with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. Merriwether knew that so expensive agift and a gift of clothing at that was highly improper, but she could think of no way of refusing when Rhett toldher in the most florid language that nothing was too good to deck the bride of one of our brave heroes.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Eating the snake had given him power of understanding the language of animals.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was my bed all the time I staid with those people, though made more convenient by degrees, as I began to learn their language and make my wants known.
-- 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.
-- I was immediately produced, and placed upon a table, where I walked as I was commanded, drew my hanger, put it up again, made my reverence to my master's guest, asked him in his own language how he did, and told him HE WAS WELCOME, just as my little nurse had instructed me.
-- I walked about on the table as the girl commanded; she asked me questions, as far as she knew my understanding of the language reached, and I answered them as loud as I could.
-- On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their language Lorbrulgrud, or Pride of the Uni-verse.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My next question related to the language in which it was written.
-- "It is a Runic manuscript, the language of the original population of Iceland, invented by Odin himself," cried my uncle, angry at my ignorance.
-- The first letter is a double M, which was only added to the Icelandic language in the twelfth century--this makes the parchment two hundred years posterior to the volume."
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