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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The French traveler had mistaken his vessel, and gone on board while the crew were attending the service at St. Mungo's.
-- "That famous port in French annals!"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To-morrow some other little problem may be submitted to my notice which will in turn dispossess the fair French lady and the infamous Up-wood.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh, no!He takes her to his box at the opera at the French theatre of an evening, and the officers and people all look at her and say, 'By Jove, there's the famous Nastasia Philipovna!'
-- Look at the well-rounded a and d. I have tried to translate the French character into the Russian lettersa dif-ficult thing to do, but I think I have succeeded fairly.
-- The copy was given me by a French commercial traveller.
-- Oh, non-sense!Here have I been sitting in my box at the French theatre for the last five years like a statue of inaccessible vir-tue, and kept out of the way of all admirers, like a silly little idiot!Now, there's this man, who comes and pays down his hundred thousand on the table, before you all, in spite of my five years of innocence and proud virtue, and I dare be sworn he has his sledge outside waiting to carry me off.
-- It was said that some fool-ish young prince, name unknown, had suddenly come into possession of a gigantic fortune, and had married a French ballet dancer.
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:
-- While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too common-place, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
-- The lengthened sheet of the Champlain stretched from the fron-tiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies.
-- While, in the pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the dis-tant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it may easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described.
-- They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military en-dowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.
-- But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the ap-proach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then came the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs.
-- It was a very small room, overcrowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe.
-- My French isn't exactly brilliant."
-- They said that Charles Strickland had become infatuated with a French dancer, whom he had first seen in the ballet at the Empire, and had accompanied her to Paris.
-- Strickland did not come, but presently we saw the French painter who occasionally played chess with him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The atlas was a magnificent work, comprising maps of every country in the world, and several planispheres arranged upon Mercator's projection, and of which the nomenclature was in French but which also bore neither date nor name of publisher.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fact that he spoke English, French and German fluently; that his linen, clothing, scarf and cuff-buttons were of superior make would not be sufficient reason for assuming his superiority, as he himself well understood.
-- When, however, he was reading novels, relating indecent anecdotes or seeing droll vaudevilles in the French theatre, and afterward merrily repeated them, everybody praised and encouraged him.
-- When he was chaste, and wished to preserve his chastity till marriage, his relatives were anxious about his health, and his mother, so far from being mortified, rather rejoiced when she learned that he had become a real man, and had enticed the French mistress of some friend of his.
-- He was disgusted with that self-confident, vulgar, liberal tone of Kolosoff, the bull- like, sensual, figure of old Korchagin, the French phrases of the Slavophile maiden, the ceremonious faces of the governess and the tutor.
-- This very important military guest, while descending the stairs, was conversing in French about a lottery for the benefit of orphan asylums, giving his opinion that it was a good occupation for ladies.
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