Portuguese是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 葡萄牙人; 葡萄牙语,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:
-- repeated Glenarvan; "but Paganel, my unfortunate fellow, Camoens was a Portuguese!It is Portuguese you have been learning for the last six weeks!"
-- In the library of your British Museum, Glenarvan, there are two charts, the date of which is 1550, which mention a country south of Asia, called by the Portuguese Great Java.
-- A Portuguese missionary was one day visiting an old Brazilian woman who was very ill. She had only a few days to live.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The island is situated at the mouth of the Canton River, and is separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao, on the opposite coast.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A Belgian biologist and a Portuguese bio-chemist were occupying guest laboratories now, and once, Martin thrilled to learn, Gustaf Sondelius had been here.
-- Here, at the cocktail-hour, are all the bloodless, sun-helmeted white rulers of St. Hubert who haven't quite the caste to belong to the Devonshire Club: the shipping-office clerks, the merchants who have no grandfathers, the secretaries to the Inchcape Joneses, the Italians and Portuguese who smuggle into Venezuela.
-- Dinners!Talking to idiotic women!Being furious because you weren't invited to the dinner to the Portuguese minister!)
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For three years past her name had been spoken of in connection with that of one of the most wealthy and distinguished Portuguese nobles, the Marquis d'Ajuda-Pinto.
-- She went to the Bouffons or to the Opera with M. de Beauseant and M. d'Ajuda-Pinto; and M. de Beauseant, like a well-bred man of the world, always left his wife and the Portuguese as soon as he had installed them.
-- And now, though the bans were about to be published, and although the handsome Portuguese had come that day to break the news to the Vicomtesse, he had not found courage as yet to say one word about his treachery.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But no; the Nautilus kept in Portuguese waters.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship.
-- The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of delivering my words, which, however, they understood very well.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- roared the captain, as a Portuguese pirate hove in sight, with a flag black as ink flying from her foremast.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- PORTUGUESE SAILOR.
-- The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow.
-- For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah's going to Nineveh via the Cape of Good Hope was advanced as a signal magnification of the general miracle.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I jumped out of the cabin, and immediately saw, not only the ship, but that it was a Portuguese ship; and, as I thought, was bound to the coast of Guinea, for negroes.
-- This was so wholesome advice, and looked so friendly, that I could not but be convinced it was the best course I could take; so I accordingly prepared letters to the gentle-woman with whom I had left my money, and a procuration to the Portuguese captain, as he desired.
-- I wrote the English captain's widow a full account of all my adventures - my slavery, escape, and how I had met with the Portuguese captain at sea, the humanity of his be-haviour, and what condition I was now in, with all other necessary directions for my supply; and when this honest captain came to Lisbon, he found means, by some of the English merchants there, to send over, not the order only, but a full account of my story to a merchant in London, who represented it effectually to her; whereupon she not only delivered the money, but out of her own pocket sent the Portugal captain a very handsome present for his humanity and charity to me.
-- In the next place, we are to observe that among the many things which I brought out of the ship, in the several voy-ages which, as above mentioned, I made to it, I got several things of less value, but not at all less useful to me, which I omitted setting down before; as, in particular, pens, ink, and paper, several parcels in the captain's, mate's, gunner's and carpenter's keeping; three or four compasses, some mathematical instruments, dials, perspectives, charts, and books of navigation, all which I huddled together, whether I might want them or no; also, I found three very good Bibles, which came to me in my cargo from England, and which I had packed up among my things; some Portuguese books also; and among them two or three Popish prayer-books, and several other books, all which I carefully secured.
-- So void was I of everything that was good, or the least sense of what I was, or was to be, that, in the greatest deliv-erances I enjoyed - such as my escape from Sallee; my being taken up by the Portuguese master of the ship; my being planted so well in the Brazils; my receiving the cargo from England, and the like - I never had once the words 'Thank God!'
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