concerning是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. 关于, 论及,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall continue my journal concerning the stranger at intervals, should I have any fresh incidents to record.
-- Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he ap-peared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
-- Will you smile at the enthusiasm I express concerning this divine wanderer?
-- In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Delicacy forbids my putting more concerning him on paper.
-- That terrific scandal concerning theCharleston girl he had compromised and the brother he had killed was public property.
-- She did not realize that, with his encouragement, she had disregarded many of thesternest injunctions of her mother concerning the proprieties, forgotten the difficult lessons in being a lady.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live.
-- Presently, Joe came back, saying that the man was gone, but that he, Joe, had left word at the Three Jolly Bargemen concerning the notes.
-- One Sunday when Joe, greatly enjoying his pipe, had so plumed himself on being "most awful dull," that I had given him up for the day, I lay on the earthwork for some time with my chin on my hand, descrying traces of Miss Havisham and Estella all over the prospect, in the sky and in the water, until at last I resolved to mention a thought concerning them that had been much in my head.
-- "I was going to say a word or two, Handel, concerning my father and my father's son.
-- Now, concerning the influence of my position on others, I was in no such difficulty, and so I perceived--though dimly enough perhaps--that it was not beneficial to anybody, and, above all, that it was not beneficial to Herbert.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their be-ing, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with convic-tion.
-- In the mean time the emperor held frequent councils, to debate what course should be taken with me; and I was af- 29terwards assured by a particular friend, a person of great quality, who was as much in the secret as any, that the court was under many difficulties concerning me.
-- A conversation between the author and a principal secretary, concerning the affairs of that empire.
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- I walked with intrepidity five or six times before the very head of the cat, and came within half a yard of her; where-upon she drew herself back, as if she were more afraid of me: I had less apprehension concerning the dogs, whereof three or four came into the room, as it is usual in farmers' houses; one of which was a mastiff, equal in bulk to four elephants, and another a greyhound, somewhat taller than the mastiff, but not so large.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer.
-- In reference to the Bank robbery, there has been a mistake made, concerning my mother.
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:
-- Complete intimacy!She supposed that meant revealing everything concerning yourself to the other person, and his revealing everything concerning himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For these particulars or generalities concerning Little Dorrit, Mr Arthur was indebted in the course of the day to his own eyes and to Mrs Affery's tongue.
-- Speculations, too, bearing the strangest relations towards the prison, but always concerning the prison, ran like nightmares through his mind while he lay awake.
-- 'I feel permitted now,' he said, 'to ask you a little more concerning your father.
-- Plornish, going up this yard alone and leaving his Principal outside, found a gentleman with tight drab legs, a rather old hat, a little hooked stick, and a blue neckerchief (Captain Maroon of Gloucestershire, a private friend of Captain Barbary); who happened to be there, in a friendly way, to mention these little circumstances concerning the remarkably fine grey gelding to any real judge of a horse and quick snapper-up of a good thing, who might look in at that address as per advertisement.
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