rich是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 富的, 有钱的; 富饶的; (in) 充足的, 丰富的,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:
-- Alliance by blood, or marriage, is a frequent cause of war between princes; and the nearer the kindred is, the greater their disposition to quarrel; poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
-- Therefore since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend, or to save, as they found themselves inclined, from their natural bent either to profusion or ava-rice; that the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man's labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former; that the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages, to make 319a few live plentifully.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was a rich man: banker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not.
-- Look round town so rich as 'tis and see the numbers o' people as has been broughten into bein heer, fur to weave, an' to card, an' to piece out a livin', aw the same one way, somehows, 'twixt their cradles and their graves.
-- Reposing in the sunlight, with the fragrance of his eastern pipe about him, and the dreamy smoke vanishing into the air, so rich and soft with summer odours, he reckoned up his advantages as an idle winner might count his gains.
-- Louisa had relinquished the hand: had thought that her sister's was a better and brighter face than hers had ever been: had seen in it, not without a rising feeling of resentment, even in that place and at that time, something of the gentleness of the other face in the room; the sweet face with the trusting eyes, made paler than watching and sympathy made it, by the rich dark hair.
-- And a steady lad he was, and a kind master he had to lend him a hand, and well he worked his own way forward to be rich and thriving.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This is about the proportion found in most southern languages, the idioms of the north being much more rich in consonants.
-- Shortly after we entered a place of communal jurisdiction called Ejulberg, and the clock of which would then have struck twelve, if any Icelandic church had been rich enough to possess so valuable and useful an article.
-- That evening, after fording the Alfa and the Heta, two rivers rich in trout and pike, we were compelled to pass the night in a deserted house, worthy of being haunted by all the fays of Scandinavian mythology.
-- At that period of the world which preceded the secondary epoch, the earth was covered by a coating of enormous and rich vegetation, due to the double action of tropical heat and perpetual humidity.
-- Oh!what exalted delight--what rich and incomparable luxury!What was this water, whence did it come?
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:
-- It's time as poor folks had some money to spend, rich ones 'as 'ad it long enough.
-- How it sloped with a rich down-slope to the heavy roundness of her buttocks!And in between, folded in the secret warmth, the secret entrances!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A fair girl with rich brown hair hanging free in natural ringlets.
-- A sullen, passionate girl!Her rich black hair was all about her face, her face was flushed and hot, and as she sobbed and raged, she plucked at her lips with an unsparing hand.
-- On my taking notice of its rich colour, he showed me a piece of paper round it, on which was written, "For the Father of the Marshalsea," and presented it to me.
-- Flora Casby had been the beloved of his boyhood; and Flora was the daughter and only child of wooden-headed old Christopher (so he was still occasionally spoken of by some irreverent spirits who had had dealings with him, and in whom familiarity had bred its proverbial result perhaps), who was reputed to be rich in weekly tenants, and to get a good quantity of blood out of the stones of several unpromising courts and alleys.
-- With that head, however, he remained old Christopher Casby, proclaimed by common report rich in house property; and with that head, he now sat in his silent parlour.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Being still too young to go often to the theater, and not rich enough to afford any great outlay for private performances, the girls put their wits to work, and necessity being the mother of invention, made whatev-er they needed.
-- Margaret found a place as nursery governess and felt rich with her small salary.
-- Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
-- Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said... 'We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes.
-- Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.'
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