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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "If those poor creatures ever see their native land again, it is you they will have to thank for it."
-- CHAPTER XI TRAVELING IN CHILITHE native troops organized by Lord Glenarvan consisted of three men and a boy.
-- Human beings there were none, not a native appeared; not even one of the GUASSOS, the degenerate offspring of Indians and Spaniards, dashed across the plain like a shadow, his flying steed dripping with blood from the cruel thrusts inflicted by the gigantic spurs of his master's naked feet.
-- The native listened, but made no reply.
-- "His will be accomplished then," replied the native almost solemnly.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I felt an ecstasy in being in my native land once more; and one sunny morning I took up a pen and wrote her that letter, but why to HER, I don't quite know.
-- He turned out to be neither count nor ex-ile at least, in the political sense of the word but had had to leave his native land owing to some rather dubious affair of the past.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I did ill to take my bow down from its peg on the day I led my band of Trojans to Ilius in Hector's service, and if ever I get home again to set eyes on my native place, my wife, and the greatness of my house, may some one cut my head off then and there if I do not break the bow and set it on a hot fire such pranks as it plays me.'
-- The son of Menoetius when he saw him had compassion upon him and spoke piteously saying, 'O unhappy princes and counsellors of the Danaans, are you then doomed to feed the hounds of Troy with your fat, far from your friends and your native land?
-- Then Hector seized the stern of the good ship that had brought Protesilaus to Troy, but never bore him back to his native land.
-- He looked all sorrow-fully out upon the dark sea, and said, 'Spercheius, in vain did my father Peleus vow to you that when I returned home to my loved native land I should cut off this lock and offer you a holy hecatomb; fifty she-goats was I to sacrifice to you there at your springs, where is your grove and your altar fragrant with burnt-offerings.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people's whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men's hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figures are their armies, or that they are gods to be worshiped.
-- Most native hunt-ers always singe a tiger's whiskers to prevent his ghost from haunting them.
-- Petersen Sahib came in on his clever she-elephant Pud-mini; he had been paying off other camps among the hills, for the season was coming to an end, and there was a native clerk sitting at a table under a tree, to pay the drivers their wages.
-- He may have be-longed to some little native king's establishment, fifty or sixty or a hundred miles away.
-- But, since native children have no nerves worth speaking of, in two hours he was lying very contentedly in Petersen Sahib's hammock with Petersen Sahib's shooting-coat un-der his head, and a glass of warm milk, a little brandy, with a dash of quinine, inside of him, and while the old hairy, scarred hunters of the jungles sat three deep before him, looking at him as though he were a spirit, he told his tale in short words, as a child will, and wound up with: 'Now, if I lie in one word, send men to see, and they will find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, tracks leading to that dance-room.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so ex-press it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America.
-- They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.
-- The two united to rob the untu-tored possessors of its wooded scenery of their native right to perpetuate its original appellation of 'Horican.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Mr. Bumble, summoning up all his native dignity.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class--two generations removed from the emigrant.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking!I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with care, And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
-- Nothing to do but hitch your rope ladder to the battlements, shin down it, break your leg in the moat because a rope ladder is nineteen foot too short, you know and there's your horses and your trusty vassles, and they scoop you up and fling you across a saddle, and away you go to your native Langudoc, or Navarre, or wherever it is.
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