gaol是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 监狱,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We are all of us as good as in the county gaol till to-morrow morning."
-- Over the chimneys he could see the upper part of the gaol entrance, rich and glowing in the afternoon sun, and some moving figures were there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, the gaol was a vile place, in which most kinds of debauchery and villainy were prac-tised, and where dire diseases were bred, that came into court with the prisoners, and sometimes rushed straight from the dock at my Lord Chief Justice himself, and pulled him off the bench.
-- The court was all bestrewn with herbs and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.
-- There were twenty-three names, but only twenty were responded to; for one of the prisoners so summoned had died in gaol and been forgotten, and two had already been guillotined and forgotten.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'But in a gaol for criminals, mother.
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