patent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 明显的, 获得专利的; n. 专利, 专利 权, 专利品; vt. 取得…专利，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, my dear prince,' cried the general, who was now so intoxicated with his own narrative that he probably could not have pulled up at the most patent indiscretion.
-- Yet we feel that we ought to limit ourselves to the simple record of facts, without much attempt at explanation, for a very patent reason: because we ourselves have the greatest possible difficulty in accounting for the facts to be record-ed.
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：
-- It was dressed entirely in black, and of the very finest cloth; it had patent leather boots, and a hat that could be folded together, so that it was bare crown and brim; not to speak of what we already know it had seals, gold neck-chain, and diamond rings; yes, the shadow was well-dressed, and it was just that which made it quite a man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his head there was a wreck of a hat of indefinite form, but his gun of a new patent was a perfect gem, and his game bag and cartridge belt, though worn, were of the very best quality.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While medical quacks, manufacturers of patent medicines, chewing- gum salesmen, and high priests of advertising lived in large houses, attended by servants, and took their sacred persons abroad in limousines, Max Gottlieb dwelt in a cramped cottage whose paint was peeling, and rode to his laboratory on an ancient and squeaky bicycle.
-- We'll patent your method of synthesizing antibodies and immediately put them on the market in large quantities, with a great big advertising campaign-- you know--not circus it, of course--strictly high-class ethical advertising.
-- Pete conducted what he called a "drug store," devoted to the sale of candy, soda water, patent medicines, fly paper, magazines, washing-machines, and Ford accessories, yet Pete would have starved if he had not been postmaster also.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transportswith the room that was revealed to him; and when I heated thecoffee in an unassuming blocktin vessel in which Mrs. Cruppdelighted to prepare it (chiefly, I believe, because it was notintended for the purpose, being a shaving-pot, and because therewas a patent invention of great price mouldering away in thepantry), he professed so much emotion, that I could joyfully havescalded him.
-- Markleham,' said the Doctor, 'was quite vexed about him,poor thing; so we have got him at home again; and we have boughthim a little Patent place, which agrees with him much better.'
-- What Julia calls 'society,' I see; among it Mr. JackMaldon, from his Patent Place, sneering at the hand that gave ithim, and speaking to me of the Doctor, as 'so charmingly antique.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I did not quite mean you to accept it at first, for it was my one poor patent of nobility," he broke out, bluntly; "but, upon my soul, I wish you would now.
-- And Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene exchanged his dress suit for a shabby overcoat and slippers, kindled a fire with some blocks of patent fuel, and prepared for his night's work in such a sort that the faint sounds he made were drowned by Christophe's heavy tramp on the stairs.
-- It was almost like a patent of nobility to be admitted to those gilded salons; he had appeared in the most exclusive circle in Paris, and now all doors were open for him.
-- 莽卢卢25 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 "Take out a patent for it, then," cried the Museum official; "you would make a handsome fortune."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this end, they procured a royal patent for erecting an academy of projectors in Lagado; and the hu-mour prevailed so strongly among the people, that there is not a town of any consequence in the kingdom without such an academy.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo hardly knew her own MS again, so crumpled and un-derscored were its pages and paragraphs, but feeling as a tender patent might on being asked to cut off her baby's legs in order that it might fit into a new cradle, she looked at the marked passages and was surprised to find that all the mor-al reflections which she had carefully put in as ballast for much romance had been stricken out.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
-- High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about the water on castors like gouty old aldermen in patent chairs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drouet wore patent leather but Carrie could not help feeling that there was a distinction in favour of the soft leather, where all else was so rich.
-- When he neared Broadway, he noticed the captain's gathering of wanderers, but thinking it to be the result of a street preacher or some patent medicine fakir, was about to pass on.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Jour printer by trade; do a little in patent medi- cines; the-ater-actor tragedy, you know; take a turn to mesmerism and phrenology when there's a chance; teach singing-geog-raphy school for a change; sling a lecture sometimes oh, I do lots of things most anything that comes handy, so it ain't work.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the first part of the performance was over, the Owner and Manager of the circus, in a black coat, white knee breeches, and patent leather boots, presented himself to the public and in a loud, pompous voice made the following announcement: "Most honored friends, Gentlemen and Ladies!
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