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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "This man Saknussemm," he continued, "was a very learned man: now as he did not write in the language of his birthplace, he probably, like most learned men of the sixteenth cent ury, wrote in Latin.
-- He therefore handed him the letters from Copenhagen, and a brief conversation in Danish followed, to which I of course was a stranger, and for a very good reason, for I did not know the language in which they conversed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pet had to translate this passage to Mr Meagles, who never by any accident acquired any knowledge whatever of the language of any country into which he travelled.
-- 'Dear dear,' said Flora, 'only to think of the changes at home Arthur cannot overcome it, and seems so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native if not better for you were always quick and clever though immensely difficult no doubt, I am sure the tea chests alone would kill me if I tried, such changes Arthur I am doing it again, seems so natural, most improper as no one could have believed, who could have ever imagined Mrs Finching when I can't imagine it myself!'
-- Solitary, weak, and scantily acquainted with the most necessary words of the only language in which he could communicate with the people about him, he went with the stream of his fortunes, in a brisk way that was new in those parts.
-- They constructed sentences, by way of teaching him the language in its purity, such as were addressed by the savages to Captain Cook, or by Friday to Robinson Crusoe.
-- Mr Pancks answered, with an unction which there is no language to convey, 'We rather think so.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of a schoolgirl, 'He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a bear".
-- Language cannot describe the anxieties, experiences, and exertions which Jo underwent that morning, and the dinner she served up became a standing joke.
-- Of course there was a great jubilee, and when the story came everyone read and praised it, though after her father had told her that the language was good, the romance fresh and hearty, and the tragedy quite thrilling, he shook his head, and said in his unworldly way... 'You can do better than this, Jo.
-- Say 'thou', also, and I shall say your language is almost as beautiful as mine.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now nothing remains but for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.
-- 'I must think your language too strong in speaking of both,' replied Jane; 'and I hope you will be convinced of it by seeing them happy together.
-- I have not been ac-customed to such language as this.
-- Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the mar-riage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was so dead asleep at first, being fatigued with rowing, or part of the day, and with walking the latter part, that I did not wake thoroughly; but dozing thought I dreamed that somebody spoke to me; but as the voice continued to repeat, 'Robin Crusoe, Robin Crusoe,' at last I began to wake more perfectly, and was at first dreadfully frightened, and started up in the utmost consternation; but no sooner were my eyes open, but I saw my Poll sitting on the top of the hedge; and immediately knew that it was he that spoke to me; for just in such bemoaning language I had used to talk to him and teach him; and he had learned it so perfectly that he would sit upon my finger, and lay his bill close to my face and cry, 'Poor Robin Crusoe!Where are you?
-- Friday was my interpreter, es-pecially to his father, and, indeed, to the Spaniard too; for the Spaniard spoke the language of the savages pretty well.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning."
-- Though aware, before she began it, that it must bring a confession of his inconstancy, and confirm their separation for ever, she was not aware that such language could be suffered to announce it; nor could she have supposed Willoughby capable of departing so far from the appearance of every honourable and delicate feeling so far from the common decorum of a gentleman, as to send a letter so impudently cruel: a letter which, instead of bringing with his desire of a release any professions of regret, acknowledged no breach of faith, denied all peculiar affection whatever a letter of which every line was an insult, and which proclaimed its writer to be deep in hardened villainy.
-- To give the feelings or the language of Mrs. Dashwood on receiving and answering Elinor's letter would be only to give a repetition of what her daughters had already felt and said; of a disappointment hardly less painful than Marianne's, and an indignation even greater than Elinor's.
-- And after all, what did it signify to my character in the opinion of Marianne and her friends, in what language my answer was couched? It must have been only to one end.
-- But Elinor had no such dependence; for since Edward would still be unable to marry Miss Morton, and his chusing herself had been spoken of in Mrs. Ferrars's flattering language as only a lesser evil than his chusing Lucy Steele, she feared that Robert's offence would serve no other purpose than to enrich Fanny.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The voice of the so-called inanimate!Who shall translate for us the language of the stones?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thiev-ing, infernal, white-shirted free nigger, and ' Pap was agoing on so he never noticed where his old lim-ber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language mostly hove at the nigger and the gov- ment, though he give the tub some, too, all along, here and there.
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