deliver是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 投递, 解救, 发表, 接生,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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them be-ing admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a propor-tionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:- for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.
-- These gentlemen, having pen, ink, and paper, about them, made an exact inventory of every thing they saw; and when they had done, desired I would set them down, that they might deliver it to the em-peror.
-- When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he di-rected me, although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm not bound to deliver a lecture on my family affairs, I have not undertaken to do it, and I'm not a going to do it.
-- He was crossing that dangerous country at such a dangerous time, because he was innocent of what was laid to his charge, and couldn't rest from coming the nearest way to deliver himself up.
-- I am going to take young Mr. Tom back to Coketown, in order to deliver him over to Mr. Bounderby.
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:
-- But in the coil of her confusion, she was determined to deliver her message to the fellow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even as he would be sparing of his trouble at the Marshalsea door, and would keep a visitor who wanted to go out, waiting for a few moments if he saw another visitor coming down the yard, so that one turn of the key should suffice for both, similarly he would often reserve a remark if he perceived another on its way to his lips, and would deliver himself of the two together.
-- Her old friend leaves a kind word for her, Miss Wade, if you should think proper to deliver it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he got no chance to deliver it, for Meg kept away from him till he came to say good night.
-- A.S. ADVERTISEMENTS Miss Oranthy Bluggage, the accomplished strong-mind-ed lecturer, will deliver her famous lecture on 'WOMAN AND HER POSITION' at Pickwick Hall, next Saturday Evening, after the usual performances.
-- If he asked her to deliver a Latin oration, it would not have seemed a more impossible task to bashful Beth, but there was no place to run to, no Jo to hide behind now, and the poor boy looked so wistfully at her that she bravely re-solved to try.
-- 'Are you going to deliver lectures all the way home?'
-- No one cried, no one ran away or uttered a lamen-tation, though their hearts were very heavy as they sent loving messages to Father, remembering, as they spoke that it might be too late to deliver them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true."
-- Away, cook, and deliver my message.
-- Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib for exhibition?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Send Oliver with them,' said Mr. Grimwig, with an ironical smile; 'he will be sure to deliver them safely, you know.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing can describe the confusion of thought which I felt when I sank into the water; for though I swam very well, yet I could not deliver myself from the waves so as to draw breath, till that wave having driven me, or rather carried me, a vast way on towards the shore, and having spent it-self, went back, and left me upon the land almost dry, but half dead with the water I took in.
-- I now began to consider seriously my condition, and the circumstances I was reduced to; and I drew up the state of my affairs in writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come after me - for I was likely to have but few heirs - as to deliver my thoughts from daily poring over them, and afflicting my mind; and as my reason began now to mas-ter my despondency, I began to comfort myself as well as I could, and to set the good against the evil, that I might have something to distinguish my case from worse; and I stat-ed very impartially, like debtor and creditor, the comforts I enjoyed against the miseries I suffered, thus:- Evil: I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.
-- Good: But I am singled out, too, from all the ship's crew, to be spared from death; and He that miraculously saved me from death can deliver me from this condition.
-- In the interval of this operation I took up the Bible and be-gan to read; but my head was too much disturbed with the tobacco to bear reading, at least at that time; only, having opened the book casually, the first words that occurred to me were these, 'Call on Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.'
-- so I began to say, 'Can God Himself deliver me from this place?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But whether I should write this apology, or deliver it in person, was a point of long debate.
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