native是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 本地的, 本国的; 天生的n. 本地人, 本国人,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I sighed for my own Native Land, and wished to be back with Gretchen.
-- I should not have been surprised to have seen a fleet of native canoes afloat upon that silent sea.
-- Upon those dull and somber shores passed a spectral row of the mammifers of early days, the great Liptotherium found in the cavernous hollow of the Brazilian hills, the Mesicotherium, a native of the glacial regions of Siberia.
-- Now, in all my collection, I lacked eggs of the native eagle and the large owl.
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:
-- She had big, wondering eyes, and a soft mild voice, and seemed just to have come from her native village.
-- And this was his native place.
-- He had a native breeding which was really much nicer than the cut-to-pattern class thing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Dear dear,' said Flora, 'only to think of the changes at home Arthur cannot overcome it, and seems so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native if not better for you were always quick and clever though immensely difficult no doubt, I am sure the tea chests alone would kill me if I tried, such changes Arthur I am doing it again, seems so natural, most improper as no one could have believed, who could have ever imagined Mrs Finching when I can't imagine it myself!'
-- 'Why, a native Englishman is put to it every night of his life, to save his life from them Mails,' argued the first old man; 'and he knows when they're a coming round the corner, to tear him limb from limb.
-- said, in his native English, the young man who had been put out of countenance.
-- At length a county-widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the lady; and as it was a part either of the native dignity or of the artificial policy of Mrs General (but certainly one or the other) to comport herself as if she were much more sought than seeking, the widower pursued Mrs General until he prevailed upon her to form his daughter's mind and manners.
-- Miss Fanny, however, now supported her father with great bitterness; declaring, in her native tongue, that it was quite clear there was something special in this man's impertinence; and that she considered it important that he should be, by some means, forced to give up his authority for making distinctions between that family and other wealthy families.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He never spoke of himself, and no one ever knew that in his native city he had been a man much honored and es-teemed for learning and integrity, till a countryman came to see him.
-- Always mature for her age, she had gained a certain aplomb in both carriage and conversation, which made her seem more of a woman of the world than she was, but her old petulance now and then showed itself, her strong will still held its own, and her native frankness was unspoiled by foreign polish.
-- She knew she looked well, she loved to dance, she felt that her foot was on her native heath in a ballroom, and enjoyed the delightful sense of power which comes when young girls first discover the new and lovely kingdom they are born to rule by virtue of beauty, youth, and womanhood.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage away to far distant scenes, I know not, but he now spoke of his native island; and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go on and tell it.
-- Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South.
-- When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
-- But unlike Captain Peleg who cared not a rush for what are called serious things, and indeed deemed those self-same serious things the veriest of all trifles Captain Bildad had not only been originally educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism, but all his subsequent ocean life, and the sight of many unclad, lovely island creatures, round the Horn all that had not moved this native born Quaker one single jot, had not so much as altered one angle of his vest.
-- I wonder, thought I, if this can possibly be a part of his Ramadan; do they fast on their hams that way in his native island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Early on the seventh morning after he had left his native place, Oliver limped slowly into the little town of Barnet.
-- Strike me blind, if I don't honour that 'ere girl, for her native talents.'
-- said Mr. Bumble, checking himself, with native majesty, 'this is them wicious paupers!'
-- Lights were then procured; and Messrs. Blathers and Duff, attended by the native constable, Brittles, Giles, and everybody else in short, went into the little room at the end of the passage and looked out at the window; and afterwards went round by way of the lawn, and looked in at the window; and after that, had a candle handed out to inspect the shutter with; and after that, a lantern to trace the footsteps with; and after that, a pitchfork to poke the bushes with.
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