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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other wom-an in England would have borne it. Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not I. I couldn't tell any such ridiculous lie about a beauty to encourage a single woman in England in too excessive a modesty."
-- There was ever present, too, the idea that he could claim a home and its comforts did he but chose to return to England and Weatherbury Farm.
-- To England he did return at last; but the fact of drawing nearer to Weatherbury abstracted its fascinations, and his intention to enter his old groove at the place became modified.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Letter 1To Mrs. Saville, England St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17 You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regard-ed with such evil forebodings.
-- Your affectionate brother, R. Walton FrankensteinLetter 2To Mrs. Saville, England Archangel, 28th March, 17 How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow!Yet a second step is taken towards my en-terprise.
-- Your affectionate brother, Robert Walton 11Letter 3To Mrs. Saville, England July 7th, 17 My dear Sister, I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe and well advanced on my voyage.
-- This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archan-gel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.
-- 13Letter 4To Mrs. Saville, England August 5th, 17 So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your posses-sion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And England was coming in to help the Confederacy win the war,because the English mills were standing idle for want of Southern cotton.
-- He had good pilots and paidthem well, and they slid out of Charleston and Wilmington on dark nights, bearing cotton for Nassau, England andCanada.
-- The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who couldoutwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.
-- Rhett, hearing of this from Melanie, brought in from England yards and yards of gleaming white satin and a laceveil and presented them to her as a wedding gift.
-- "I think you are very nasty to even hint such things when you know very well that England and France are comingin on our side in no time and " "Why, Scarlett!You must have been reading a newspaper!I'm surprised at you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We walked to town, my sister leading the way in a very large beaver bonnet, and carrying a basket like the Great Seal of England in plaited Straw, a pair of pattens, a spare shawl, and an umbrella, though it was a fine bright day.
-- Do you know, or do you not know, that the law of England supposes every man to be innocent, until he is proved--proved--to be guilty?"
-- He appeared to me to have obscurely hinted in his letter at some distant idea he had of seeing you in England here.
-- Then you must get him out of England before you stir a finger to extricate yourself.
-- I answered, as my bitter tears fell fast on her hand, do what I would to restrain them; "even if I remained in England and could hold my head up with the rest, how could I see you Drummle's wife?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- I likewise delivered up my watch, which the emperor was very curious to see, and commanded two of his tallest yeo-men of the guards to bear it on a pole upon their shoulders, as draymen in England do a barrel of ale.
-- There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider.
-- I carefully preserved them all; and having since shown them, with some other curiosities, in several parts of Europe, upon my return to England I gave three of them to Gresham College, and kept the fourth for myself.
-- And yet I have seen the moral of my own behaviour very frequent in England since my return; where a little contemptible varlet, without the least title to birth, person, wit, or common sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom.
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