market是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 集市, 市场; 销路, 需求(量) v. 销售,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the potter's donkey slipped in the clay pit, Mowgli hauled it out by the tail, and helped to stack the pots for their journey to the market at Khanhiwara.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- n the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent Ithe eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently short-ened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy!Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.
-- 'Ha, ha, ha!We get a bit of timber in, Sir, and that's another advantage of my sister's going to market for us.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The market places are glutted with them."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Friday was pay-day for the colliers, and Friday night was market night.
-- A CHAIRThere was a jumble market every Monday afternoon in the old market-place in town.
-- And he stood it down on the market stones.
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