institution是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 公共机构; 协会; 学校; 研究所; 制度; 惯例,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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet there was this difference, in the institution the casts were taken at the entry of the pa-tient; but here they were retained and guarded in the heart while the sound persons went away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
-- It's a decaying institution that goes on running only by the force of inertia.
-- "But you say it's an institution that's served its time."
-- And Stepan Arkadyevitch was not merely an honest man--unemphatically--in the common acceptation of the words, he was an honest man--emphatically--in that special sense which the word has in Moscow, when they talk of an "honest" politician, an "honest" writer, an "honest" newspaper, an "honest" institution, an "honest" tendency, meaning not simply that the man or the institution is not dishonest, but that they are capable on occasion of taking a line of their own in opposition to the authorities.
-- "Yes; but you must agree that it's a new institution of undoubted utility that's being started.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even in so energetically virtuous an institution as Winnemac there was one Wild Man, and he was Norman Brumfit.
-- "Well, sir, I wanted to make certain--" "I admire your caution, but you must understand, Martin, that the basic aim of this Institution is the conquest of disease, not making pretty scientific notes!You MAY have hit on one of the discoveries of a generation; the sort of thing that Mr. McGurk and I are looking for.
-- Among these jests Martin had never beheld one so pungent as this whereby the pretentiousness and fussy unimaginativeness which he had detested in Tubbs should have made him a good manager, while the genius of Gottlieb should have made him a feeble tyrant; the jest that the one thing worse than a too managed and standardized institution should be one that was not managed and standardized at all.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some re-fuse to have children altogether, because they suggest the institution of the family.
-- I charmed the old lady by depositing a sum of money with her to provide for the three children of Kat-erina Ivanovna and subscribing to the institution as well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The institution never flagged for wantof a story, I am certain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They hadjust been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; andtheir older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them, because they refused to remain at an institution wherethe twins were not welcome.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At Startop's suggestion, we put ourselves down for election into a club called The Finches of the Grove: the object of which institution I have never divined, if it were not that the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle, who already belonged to nearly every literary and scientific institution in Europe, immediately yielded to the amiable wishes of good M. Fridriksson.
-- There can be no doubt that he thought himself at the Institution addressing his attentive pupils, for he put on his most doctorial style, waved his hand, and began: "Gentlemen, I have the honor on this auspicious occasion to present to you a man of the Quaternary period of our globe.
-- "I should like to see a professor of the Johanneum Institution who is unable to explain a cosmic phenomenon--it would indeed be strange."
-- A public meeting of the Johanneum Institution was held, at which the Professor related the whole story of his adventures, omitting only the facts in connection with the compass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Similar to the Institution for the Found Children in Paris?'
-- The name of Beadle being out of the question, and the originator of the Institution for these poor foundlings having been a blessed creature of the name of Coram, we gave that name to Pet's little maid.
-- The apartment on the ground-floor in which it was held, was the Snuggery in question; the presidential tribune of the chairman, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, tobacco-ashes, and general flavour of members, were still as that convivial institution had left them on its adjournment.
-- As to the minor priests and acolytes of that temple, the result of all this was that they stood divided into two classes, and, down to the junior messenger, either believed in the Circumlocution Office as a heaven-born institution that had an absolute right to do whatever it liked; or took refuge in total infidelity, and considered it a flagrant nuisance.
-- The chief butler was the next magnificent institution of the day.
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