seat是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 座位, 底座; 所在地, 场所v. 使坐下,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a suspicion in Elk Mills--now, in 1897, a dowdy red-brick village, smelling of apples-- that this brown-leather adjustable seat which Doc Vickerson used for minor operations, for the infrequent pulling of teeth and for highly frequent naps, had begun life as a barber's chair.
-- He nodded and gurgled in brief smothering sleep; he sprawled on the seat and talked with friendly fellow vagrants; he drank bitter coffee and ate enormously of buckwheat cakes at a station restaurant; and so, changing at anonymous towns, he came at last to the squatty shelters, the two wheat-elevators, the cattle-pen, the oil-tank, and the red box of a station with its slushy platform, which composed the outskirts of Wheatsylvania.
-- A collision, a crash, the car instantly a crumpled, horrible heap, himself pinned in the telescoped berth, caught between seat and seat.
-- Martin curled on the chill leather seat of the smoking compartment, profoundly studying a brass wash-bowl.
-- Cramped on the red-plush seat of the day-coach (he who of late had ridden in silken private cars), he grinned with the joy of no longer having to toil at dinner-parties.
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:
-- There was a seat about a hundred paces in front of him.
-- He overtook the girl at the seat, but, on reaching it, she dropped down on it, in the corner; she let her head sink on the back of the seat and closed her eyes, ap-parently in extreme exhaustion.
-- She only just reached the seat and sank down on it.'
-- She opened her eyes fully all of a sudden, looked at him intently, as though realising something, got up from the seat and walked away in the direction from which she had come.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Between the eyebrows and just over the little feminine nose, the line of which was as delicate and fine as it was pos-sible to be, the expression deepened itself as she took her seat thoughtfully in the chair by which she had hitherto re-mained standing.
-- It was not for his dignity to notice it; his con-temptuous eyes passed over her, and over all the other rats; and he leaned back in his seat again, and gave the word 'Go on!'
-- he said to Monseigneur, as he took his seat at table.
-- These were to the full as interested in the place, 233however, as if they could have commanded whole barrels of wine; and they glided from seat to seat, and from corner to corner, swallowing talk in lieu of drink, with greedy looks.
-- He remained, therefore, in his seat near the window, reading and writing, and expressing in as many pleasant and natural ways as he could think of, that it was a free place.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nikolay Shtcherbatsky, Kitty's cousin, in a short jacket and tight trousers, was sitting on a garden seat with his skates on.
-- Getting up from the seat and handing her maid a bag, she gave her little wrinkled hand to her son to kiss, and lifting his head from her hand, kissed him on the cheek.
-- she said to herself resolutely, shifting her seat in the lounge.
-- She flew over it like a bird; but at the same instant Vronsky, to his horror, felt that he had failed to keep up with the mare's pace, that he had, he did not know how, made a fearful, unpardonable mistake, in recovering his seat in the saddle.
-- he added, as he sank into his seat in the carriage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Passepartout rode in the same carriage with his master, and a third passenger occupied a seat opposite to them.
-- The next day a passenger with a half-stupefied eye, staggering gait, and disordered hair, was seen to emerge from the second cabin, and to totter to a seat on deck.
-- The one hundred and twenty miles between these cities were accomplished in six hours, and towards midnight, while fast asleep, the travellers passed through Sacramento; so that they saw nothing of that important place, the seat of the State government, with its fine quays, its broad streets, its noble hotels, squares, and churches.
-- Passepartout took his seat without telling what had passed.
-- A little while before, when there was no prospect of proceeding on the journey, he had made up his mind to leave Fort Kearney; but now that the train was there, ready to start, and he had only to take his seat in the car, an irresistible influence held him back.
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