England是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 英格兰; 英国,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.
-- 'If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having 64 A tale of two citiesnever for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it!Weep for her, then, and for me!Good gentlemen, thank God!I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart.
-- He said that this business had, within a few days, taken him to France, and might, at intervals, take him backwards and forwards between France and England for a long time to come.'
-- He had been known in England as Charles Darnay.
-- 'England is very attractive to you, seeing how indiffer-ently you have prospered there,' he observed then, turning his calm face to his nephew with a smile.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "To the England or the Hermitage?"
-- If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically developed this force both in beasts and in men.
-- In England he had galloped in a red coat over hedges and killed two hundred pheasants for a bet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let it be observed that the Bank of England reposes a touching confidence in the honesty of the public.
-- He took the carpet-bag, opened it, and slipped into it a goodly roll of Bank of England notes, which would pass wherever he might go.
-- Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers; to bet is in the English temperament.
-- One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
-- This was Fix, one of the detectives who had been dispatched from England in search of the bank robber; it was his task to narrowly watch every passenger who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to be suspicious characters, or bore a resemblance to the description of the criminal, which he had received two days before from the police headquarters at London.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is a feeling of New England in its brick and sycamore villages, its stable industries, and a tradition which goes back to the Revolutionary War.
-- Always an elaborately careful worker, a maker of long rows of figures, always realizing the presence of uncontrollable variables, always a vicious assailant of what he considered slackness or lie or pomposity, never too kindly to well-intentioned stupidity, he worked in the laboratories of Koch, of Pasteur, he followed the early statements of Pearson in biometrics, he drank beer and wrote vitriolic letters, he voyaged to Italy and England and Scandinavia, and casually, between two days, he married (as he might have bought a coat or hired a housekeeper) the patient and wordless daughter of a Gentile merchant.
-- Now, no less passionately, he awoke to the ship, the mysterious sea, the presence of Leora, and he cried to her, in the warm tropic winter dusk: "Sweet, this is only the first of our big hikes!Pretty soon, if I'm successful in St. Hubert, I'll begin to count in science, and we'll go abroad, to your France and England and Italy and everywhere!"
-- Oh, Mart, if you only knew the wickedness of the natives, and the way they lie and sing indecent songs and commit all manner of vileness!And the Church of England lets them wallow in their sins!Only us to save them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Well, sir, we've got a young relation ofhers here, under articles to us, that has as elegant a taste in thedress-making business- I assure you I don't believe there's aduchess in England can touch her.'
-- 'I doen't know,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'for sure, when her 'art begunto fail her; but all the way to England she had thowt to come to herdear home.
-- Soon as she got to England she turned her face tow'rdsit.
-- All I would say, is that I can go abroad without your familycoming forward to favour me,- in short, with a parting shove oftheir cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would ratherleave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive anyacceleration of it from that quarter.
-- From babies who had but a week or two of lifebehind them, to crooked old men and women who seemed to havebut a week or two of life before them; and from ploughmen bodilycarrying out soil of England on their boots, to smiths taking awaysamples of its soot and smoke upon their skins; every age andoccupation appeared to be crammed into the narrow compass ofthe 'tween decks.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These were claims which he did not learn to overlook, though some years passed away from the death of poor Fairfax, before his own return to England put any thing in his power.
-- And here, instead of its being a matter of condolence, it turns out to be one of congratulation. I congratulate you, Mr. Weston, with all my heart, on the prospect of hav-ing one of the most lovely and accomplished young women in England for your daughter.'
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