gate是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 大门; 入口; 观众人数, 门票收入,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:
-- The gate would not open, try how he would, and knowing there was the Devil's hand in it, he kneeled down."
-- But no, the gate wouldn't open; and then I went on with Dearly Beloved Brethren, and, thinks I, this makes four, and 'tis all I know out of book, and if this don't do it nothing will, and I'm a lost man.
-- Well, when I got to Saying After Me, I rose from my knees and found the gate would open yes, neighbours, the gate opened the same as ever."
-- He descended the stairs and went out towards the gate of a field to the east, leaning over which he paused and looked around.
-- He approached the gate of the meadow.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At night the wicket gate is replaced by a solid door.
-- The worthy soul was preparing to open his umbrella regardless of the fact that the great gate had opened to admit a tilbury, in which a young man with a ribbon at his button-hole was seated.
-- She only returned when the great gate had been closed after him.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Two figures paused at the gate and she heard the click of the latch and Gerald's voice came plain.
-- Often in the late night hours, when the lamps were out and Melanie asleep and deathly silence pressed over thetown, Scarlett, lying awake, heard the latch of the front gate click and soft urgent tappings on the front door.
-- She heard the front gate click and she hastily raised her head and dashed her hand across her wet eyes.
-- The front gate clicked andScarlett cried: "Run, you goose!"
-- Then, she saw him dimly as heclimbed down from the seat of a small wagon, heard the clicking of the gate as he came toward her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They came in again without finding anything, and then we struck out on the open marshes, through the gate at the side of the churchyard.
-- She laughed contemptuously, pushed me out, and locked the gate upon me.
-- Chapter XIAt the appointed time I returned to Miss Havisham's, and my hesitating ring at the gate brought out Estella.
-- It is not much to the purpose whether a gate in that garden wall which I had scrambled up to peep over on the last occasion was, on that last occasion, open or shut.
-- Enough that I saw no gate then, and that I saw one now.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.
-- 'Go home, then,' said the fish; 'she is standing at the gate of it already.'
-- So away went the fisherman, and found his wife standing before the gate of a great castle.
-- She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada's head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes.
-- And Curdken said, 'When we go in the morning through the dark gate with our flock of geese, she cries and talks with the head of a horse that hangs upon the wall, and says: 'Falada, Falada, there thou hangest!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
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