reign是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. (君主) 统治, 存在, 现存，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：
-- And without going so far back as historic times, under the reign of Elizabeth, when Shakespeare was dreaming out his Shy-lock, a Scotch bandit, Sawney Bean, was executed for the crime of cannibalism.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She was a Countess who rose from shame to reign like a Queen.
-- But, alas!peace did not reign for more than ten minutes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And shall not I foremost of all goddesses both by descent and as wife to you who reign in heaven devise evil for the Trojans if I am angry with them?'
-- There is a fine child born this day, Eurystheus, son to Sthenelus the son of Perseus; he is of your lineage; it is well, therefore, that he should reign over the Argives.'
-- Is it that you hope to reign over the Trojans in the seat of Priam?
-- For now in-deed has Jove hated the blood of Priam, while Aeneas shall reign over the Trojans, he and his children's children that shall be born hereafter.'
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：
-- So they danced once more together; and she was about to declare herself, but she was discreet; she thought of her country and kingdom, and of the many persons she would have to reign over.
-- * Bordingborg, in the reign of King Waldemar, a consid-erable place, now an unimportant little town.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- II While Pickerbaugh went out campaigning, Martin was in charge of the Department, and he began his reign by getting himself denounced as a tyrant and a radical.
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：
-- My life has not yet died with that old woman!The Kingdom of Heaven to her and now enough, madam, leave me in peace!Now for the reign of reason and light 芒聙娄 and of will, and of strength 芒聙娄 and now we will see!We will try our strength!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How well I recollect, when I became quiet, what an unnaturalstillness seemed to reign through the whole house!How well Iremember, when my smart and passion began to cool, how wickedI began to feel!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 518 EmmaChapter XIIIThe weather continued much the same all the following morning; and the same loneliness, and the same melan-choly, seemed to reign at Hartfield but in the afternoon it cleared; the wind changed into a softer quarter; the clouds were carried off; the sun appeared; it was summer again.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My reign is not yet over' these words were legible in one of these inscriptions 'you live, and my power is complete.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that these gratifying social ends were so invariably accomplished, that Herbert and I understood nothing else to be referred to in the first standing toast of the society: which ran "Gentlemen, may the present promotion of good feeling ever reign predominant among the Finches of the Grove."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ''Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwith-standing, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apart-ment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc.
-- But the usual way of computing how old they are, is by asking them what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he had it in charge from high authority to bring about the great public-office Millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth.
-- Sissy, though well acquainted with his Royal line, had no personal knowledge of the present Emperor, and his reign was peaceful.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between the long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy oaken sword between the threads, and idly looking off upon the water, carelessly and unthinkingly drove home every yarn: I say so strange a dreaminess did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only broken by the intermitting dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates.
-- The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the elements.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the 6th of November, in the sixth year of my reign - or my captivity, which you please - that I set out on this voyage, and I found it much longer than I expected; for though the island itself was not very large, yet when I came to the east side of it, I found a great ledge of rocks lie out about two leagues into the sea, some above water, some under it; and beyond that a shoal of sand, lying dry half a league more, so that I was obliged to go a great way out to sea to double the point.
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