French是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 法国的 n. 法国人,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I offered to assist in the young girl's education in French and dancing.
-- But now she quite gave up all effort, now it was a grin, a broad grin; there was something shameless, provocative in that quite unchildish face; it was depravity, it was the face of a harlot, the shameless face of a French harlot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All I know of the rest of the evening is, that I heard the empress ofmy heart sing enchanted ballads in the French language, generallyto the effect that, whatever was the matter, we ought always todance, Ta ra la, Ta ra la!accompanying herself on a glorifiedinstrument resembling a guitar.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His mother was a French governess, and it seems that a secret attachment existed between her and the late Lord Severn.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which looks out upon the street through the two barred windows already mentioned.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apart-ment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Con-stantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.
-- ''No; but I was educated by a French family and un-derstand that language only.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And ordering French and German books by the crate fromthe Yankees!And there they sit reading and dreaming the dear God knows what, when they'd be better spending theirtime hunting and playing poker as proper men should."
-- Shespoke in the soft slurring voice of the coastal Georgian, liquid of vowels, kind to consonants and with the barest traceof French accent.
-- When she departed from her father's house forever, she had left a home whose lines were as beautiful andflowing as a woman's body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stucco house built in the French colonial style, set highfrom the ground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs, banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; adim, rich house, gracious but aloof.
-- Through the open French windows, she caught glimpses of the older women seated in the drawing room, sedate indark silks as they sat fanning themselves and talking of babies and sicknesses and who had married whom and why.
-- And as for France, that weakimitation of Napoleon is far too busy establishing the French in Mexico to be bothered with us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You must have observed, gentlemen," said he, "an ignorant and a blatant ass, with a rasping throat and a countenance expressive of low malignity, who went through--I will not say sustained--the r脙麓le (if I may use a French expression) of Claudius, King of Denmark.
-- Afterwards, Estella and I played at cards, as of yore,--only we were skilful now, and played French games,--and so the evening wore away, and I went to bed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One day, after passing some hours in the laboratory--my uncle being absent at the time--I suddenly felt the necessity of renovating the tissues--i.e., I was hungry, and was about to rouse up our old French cook, when my uncle, Professor Von Hardwigg, suddenly opened the street door, and came rushing upstairs.
-- It is a matter of great doubt to me now, to what violent measures my uncle's impetuosity might have led him, had not the clock struck two, and our old French cook called out to let us know that dinner was on the table.
-- Generally there were one or two English or French gunboats, to watch and protect the fisheries in the offing.
-- This grave, sententious, silent person, as phlegmatic as an Englishman on the French stage, was named Hans Bjelke.
-- A first-class chronometer made by Boissonnas, of Geneva, set at the meridian of Hamburg, from which Germans calculate, as the English do from Greenwich, and the French from Paris.
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:
-- It had been one of his stunts in the past, to read Racine in the real French grand manner, but he was rusty now, and a little self-conscious; he really preferred the loudspeaker.
-- So he went on helplessly with his reading, and the throaty sound of the French was like the wind in the chimneys to her.
-- He'd been a clever boy, had a scholar-ship for Sheffield Grammar School, and learned French and things: and then after all had become an overhead black-smith shoeing horses, because he was fond of horses, he said: but really because he was frightened to go out and face the world, only he'd never admit it.
-- He was still yellow at the gills: in for one of his liver bouts, when he was really very queer. He was reading a French book.
-- I was supposed to be a clever sort of young fellow from Sheffield Grammar School, with a bit of French and German, very much up aloft.
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