guest是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 客人, 宾客, 旅客,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:
-- Then he reflected, blinked his eyes, stared at his guest once more from head to foot; then abruptly motioned him to a chair, sat down himself, and waited with some impatience for the prince to speak.
-- The prince's expression was so good-natured at this moment, and so entirely free from even a suspicion of un-pleasant feeling was the smile with which he looked at the general as he spoke, that the latter suddenly paused, and ap-peared to gaze at his guest from quite a new point of view, all in an instant.
-- However, the wine was not refused; each guest took a glass excepting Gania, who drank noth-ing.
-- He was the only guest left sitting at this time; the others had thronged round the table in disorder, and were all talking at once.
-- They were all laughing, and the guest joined in the cho-rus.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Often did Menelaus receive him as a guest in our house when he came visiting us from Crete.
-- If he could learn all this and come back safely here, his fame would be high as heaven in the mouths of all men, and he would be rewarded richly; for the chiefs from all our ships would each of them give him a black ewe with her lamb which is a present of surpassing value and he would be asked as a guest to all feasts and clan-gather-ings.'
-- Are you likely, sir, to do anything to help a man of less note, after leaving Sarpedon, who was at once your guest and comrade in arms, to be the spoil and prey of the Danaans?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain.
-- A guest to stop at Iping in the wintertime was an unheard-of piece of luck, let alone a guest who was no "haggler," and she was resolved to show herself worthy of her good fortune.
-- And him a new guest and wanting to stay!Then she filled the mustard pot, and, putting it with a certain stateliness upon a gold and black tea-tray, carried it into the parlour.
-- "You wim' don't know everything," said Mr. Hall, resolved to ascertain more about the personality of his guest at the earliest possible opportunity.
-- "There's breakfast upstairs," said Kemp, speaking as easily as possible, and he was delighted to find his strange guest rose willingly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I must confess that you are the most dictatorial guest I ever entertained.
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:
-- Both mused a little while in si-lence, when Montcalm renewed the conversation, in a way that showed he believed the visit of his guest was solely to propose terms of capitulation.
-- Then the Delaware invited his guest to enter his own lodge, and share his morning meal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would have been strange if the careless profligate, who was the butt of both, had been harassed by any such consideration; for his high opinion of his own merits and deserts rendered the project rather a laudable one than otherwise; and if he had been visited by so unwonted a guest as reflection, he would being a brute only in the gratification of his appetites have soothed his conscience with the plea that he did not mean to beat or kill his wife, and would therefore, after all said and done, be a very tolerable, average husband.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes, that may be," he said calmly, courteously admitting the guest into the ill-smelling corridor.
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:
-- He was evidently her guest of the moment.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hate you to be fidgeting in MY presence,' exclaimed the young lady imperiously, not allowing her guest time to speak: she had failed to recover her equanimity since the little dispute with Heathcliff.
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