India是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 印度,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:
-- "INDI,—is it India where they have been shipwrecked?
-- "To Jacques Eliacin Francois Marie Paganel, Secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Societies of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical and Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies; who, after having spent twenty years of his life in geographical work in the study, wishes to see active service, and is on his way to India to gain for the science what information he can by following up the footsteps of great travelers."
-- "Yes, my Lord, to see India has been a cherished purpose with me all my life.
-- "A thousand thanks, my Lord!I deeply feel your courtesy, but allow me to make one observation: India is a fine country, and can offer many a surprising marvel to travelers.
-- Well now, the man at the helm has only to give a turn at the wheel, and the DUNCAN will sail as easily to Calcutta as to Concepcion; and since it is only a pleasure trip that you are—"His proposal was met by such grave, disapproving shakes of the head, that he stopped short before the sentence was completed; and Lady Helena said:"Monsieur Paganel, if we were only on a pleasure trip, I should reply, ‘Let us all go to India together,' and I am sure Lord Glenarvan would not object; but the DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination."
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the jackal Tabaqui, the Dish-licker and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about mak-ing mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
-- said half a dozen low voic-es (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
-- And at that last wild yell the whole line flung up their trunks till the tips touched their foreheads, and broke out into the full salute the crashing trumpet-peal that only the Viceroy of India hears, the Salaamut of the Keddah.
-- Nearly all our horses for the English cavalry are brought to India from Australia, and are broken in by the troopers themselves.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But I can tell you, if you are ignorant of it, that in India these bamboos are eaten like asparagus."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company.
-- In the Rouquayrol apparatus such as we use, two india rubber pipes leave this box and join a sort of tent which holds the nose and mouth; one is to introduce fresh air, the other to let out the foul, and the tongue closes one or the other according to the wants of the respirator.
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.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He wants me to be an India merchant, as he was, and I'd rather be shot.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What India to England?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The flare of the gas-jets, the open trunks, suggestive of travel and display, the scattered contents of the make-up box--rouge, pearl powder, whiting, burnt cork, India ink, pencils for the eye-lids, wigs, scissors, looking-glasses, drapery--in short, all the nameless paraphernalia of disguise, have a remarkable atmosphere of their own.
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