game是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 游戏, 娱乐; 比赛; (pl. ) 运动会vi. 赌博,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I heard,afterwards, that he was seen to play a lively game at skittles, beforenoon.
-- The good Doctor said she wasnervous, and, to relieve her, proposed a round game at cards; ofwhich he knew as much as of the art of playing the trombone.
-- He soon becameknown to every boy in the school; and though he never took anactive part in any game but kite-flying, was as deeply interested inall our sports as any one among us.
-- Ah!What's that game atforfeits?
-- Well, you played yourround game out again.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The quietness of the game made it particularly eligible for Mr. Woodhouse, who had often been distressed by the more animated sort, which Mr. Weston had occasionally introduced, and who now sat happily occupied in lamenting, with tender mel-ancholy, over the departure of the 'poor little boys,' or in fondly pointing out, as he took up any stray letter near him, how beautifully Emma had written it.
-- It was a child's play, chosen to con-ceal a deeper game on Frank Churchill's part.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The game of prisoner's base, which not so long ago seemed to enjoy a perennial vitality in front of the worn-out stocks, may, so far as I can say, be entirely unknown to the rising generation of schoolboys there.
-- "What you call encouragement was the childish game of an idle minute.
-- Hereabouts, at six o'clock, the young men of the village gathered, as was their custom, for a game of Prisoners' base.
-- They continued playing for a quarter of an hour or so, when the game concluded abruptly, and the players leapt over the wall and vanished round to the other side behind a yew-tree, which was also half behind a beech, now spreading in one mass of golden foliage, on which the branches traced black lines.
-- "Why did the base-players finish their game so suddenly?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Anything and everything serves to keep up a game of battledore and shuttlecock with words and ideas.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They lived entirely off the produce of their lands and the game in the swamp, conducting their businessgenerally by the barter system and seldom seeing five dollars in cash a year, and horses and uniforms were out of theirreach.
-- Pork by name, shining black, dignified and trained in all the arts of sartorial elegance, was the result ofan all-night poker game with a planter from St. Simons Island, whose courage in a bluff equaled Gerald's but whosehead for New Orleans rum did not.
-- As the night wore on and the drinks went round, there came a time when all the others inthe game laid down their hands and Gerald and the stranger were battling alone.
-- 'Tis little I'mremembering after the game started."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Estella with disdain, before our first game was out.
-- "Play the game out."
-- I played the game to an end with Estella, and she beggared me.
-- Mr. Wopsle died amiably at Camberwell, and exceedingly game on Bosworth Field, and in the greatest agonies at Glastonbury.
-- "You're a game one," he returned, shaking his head at me with a deliberate affection, at once most unintelligible and most exasperating; "I'm glad you've grow'd up, a game one!But don't catch hold of me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The little tailor began his game again, picked out the biggest stone, and threw it with all his might on the breast of the first giant.
-- The king said yes, if he was skilful and could get game for him, he should come to him, but that deer had never taken up their quarters in any part of the district or country.
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