standard是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 标准, 旗帜,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:
-- SOUTH AMERICACHAPTER I THE SHARKON the 26th of July, 1864, a magnificent yacht was steaming along the North Channel at full speed, with a strong breeze blowing from the N. E. The Union Jack was flying at the mizzen-mast, and a blue standard bearing the initials E. G., embroidered in gold, and surmounted by a ducal coronet, floated from the topgallant head of the main-mast.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These men generally have about a hundred pounds a year to live on, and they spend their whole time and talents in the amassing of this style of knowledge, which they reduce or raise to the standard of a science.
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:
-- At that mo-ment an enormous cloud seemed to pass suddenly above their heads, and, looking upward, they discovered that they stood beneath the wide folds of the standard of France.
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:
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland was dull judged by a standard that demanded above all things verbal scintillation; but his intelligence was adequate to his surroundings, and that is a passport, not only to reasonable success, but still more to happiness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nor did the burden of this performance bear any reference to love, or war, or wine, or loyalty, or any other, the standard topics of song, but to a subject not often set to music or generally known in ballads; the words being these: 'The worthy magistrate, after remarking that the prisoner would find some difficulty in persuading a jury to believe his tale, committed him to take his trial at the approaching sessions; and directed the customary recognisances to be entered into for the pros-e-cu-tion.'
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:
-- "You don't believe in having any standard of behaviour at all, do you?"
-- And there could be no obligation, because there is no standard for action there, because no understanding has been reaped from that plane.
-- He did not want to claim social superiority, yet he would not claim intrinsic personal superiority, because he would never base his standard of values on pure being.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For Marianne, however in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss he always retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman; and many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after-days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.
-- Society possesses a conventional standard whereby it judges all things.
-- Naturally, Hurstwood, who was a little above the order of mind which accepted this standard as perfect, who had shrewdness and much assumption of dignity, who held an imposing and authoritative position, and commanded friendship by intuitive tact in handling people, was quite a figure.
-- She found there was no discrimination between one and the other of applicants, save as regards a conventional standard of prettiness and form.
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