union是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 联合, 团结; 联盟, 联邦; 协会, 社团; 和谐,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:
-- SOUTH AMERICACHAPTER I THE SHARKON the 26th of July, 1864, a magnificent yacht was steaming along the North Channel at full speed, with a strong breeze blowing from the N. E. The Union Jack was flying at the mizzen-mast, and a blue standard bearing the initials E. G., embroidered in gold, and surmounted by a ducal coronet, floated from the topgallant head of the main-mast.
-- Like Glenarvan, and a few noble families in the Lowlands, he had no heart for the union with England.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To England, therefore, I was bound, and it was under-stood that my union with Elizabeth should take place immediately on my return.
-- For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might 185claim Elizabeth and forget the past in my union with her.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The North could call on the whole world for supplies and for soldiers, andthousands of Irish and Germans were pouring into the Union Army, lured by the bounty money offered by the North.
-- There are plenty of sturdy Union patriots who are not averse to picking upmoney selling goods to the Confederacy.
-- And when that gets a bit dangerous, I go to Nassau where these same Union patriots have broughtpowder and shells and hoop skirts for me.
-- Closer at home, a Union cavalry dash into Georgia had been turned into a Confederate triumph.
-- Afterhard fighting, nearly all of Tennessee was now held by the Union troops.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Little Alick in a frock has already made arrangements for his union with a suitable young person at Kew.
-- On arriving before the battlements, I found the Union Jack flying and the drawbridge up; but undeterred by this show of defiance and resistance, I rang at the gate, and was admitted in a most pacific manner by the Aged.
-- This led to Mr. Wopsle's (who had never been heard of before) coming in with a star and garter on, as a plenipotentiary of great power direct from the Admiralty, to say that the Swabs were all to go to prison on the spot, and that he had brought the boatswain down the Union Jack, as a slight acknowledgment of his public services.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She would never forgive Connie for ousting her from her union in con-sciousness with her brother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, had his brother Frederick that peculiar union of qualities?
-- He had the power, often to be found in union with such a character, of explaining what he himself perceived, and meant, with the direct force and distinctness with which it struck his own mind.
-- No Poetry and no Art ever charmed the imagination more than the union of the two in this counterfeit cottage charmed Mrs Plornish.
-- Mr Dorrit's gratification was such that he said ha he could not refrain from telling Mr Merdle verbally, as he had already done by letter, what honour and happiness he felt in this union of their families.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The perpetual commendations of the lady, ei- ther on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.
-- It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his man-ners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
-- An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their family.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Drouet had taken three rooms, furnished, in Ogden Place, facing Union Park, on the West Side.
-- Over the bare limbs of the trees, which now swayed in the wintry wind, rose the steeple of the Union Park Congregational Church, and far off the towers of several others.
-- The hours slipped by, and with them the possibility of the union he had contemplated.
-- The latter made progress along Thirteenth and across Fourteenth Street to Union Square.
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