vehicle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 车辆交通工具, 思想媒介,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:
-- exclaimed Paganel, "it is the field par excellence for the exercise of human energies, and the ship is the true vehicle of civilization.
-- The vehicle was a cart twenty feet long, covered over by a tilt, and resting on four large wheels without spokes or felloes, or iron tires—in a word, plain wooden discs.
-- The front and hinder part were connected by means of a rude mechanical contrivance, which did not allow of the vehicle turning quickly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His stock consisted of a wooden stool, made out of a broken-backed chair cut down, which stool, young Jerry, walking at his father's side, carried every morning to beneath the bank-ing-house window that was nearest Temple Bar: where, with the addition of the first handful of straw that could be gleaned from any passing vehicle to keep the cold and wet from the odd-job-man's feet, it formed the encampment for the day.
-- 'If you were to go before,' said Miss Pross, 'and stop the vehicle and horses from coming here, and were to wait somewhere for me; wouldn't that be best?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the snow began to fall so thickly that the little boy could not see an arm's length before him, but still on he went: when suddenly he let go the string he held in his hand in order to get loose from the sledge, but it was of no use; still the little vehicle rushed on with the quickness of the wind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mudge, who was at the rudder, kept in a straight line, and by a turn of his hand checked the lurches which the vehicle had a tendency to make.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But to Martin and Leora, when they had tremblingly bought the car and three new tires and a horn, it was the most impressive vehicle on earth.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These letters were but the vehicle for gallantry and trick.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gabriel had not beheld the sight for more than half a minute, when the vehicle was brought to a standstill just beneath his eyes.
-- When the waggon had passed on, Gabriel withdrew from his point of espial, and descending into the road, followed the vehicle to the turnpike-gate some way beyond the bottom of the hill, where the object of his contemplation now halted for the payment of toll.
-- Gabriel sat down on the shafts of the vehicle and considered his position.
-- He was being carried along the road at a rate rather considerable for a vehicle without springs, and under circumstances of physical uneasiness, his head being dandled up and down on the bed of the waggon like a kettledrum-stick.
-- Whose vehicle the horse had been harnessed to was a matter of some uncertainty.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fool that she was, why hadn't she thought that the retreatingarmy would naturally take every vehicle and animal left in the city?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My master gave public notice that he would show me again the next market-day; and in the meantime he pre-pared a convenient vehicle for me, which he had reason enough to do; for I was so tired with my first journey, and with entertaining company for eight hours together, that I could hardly stand upon my legs, or speak a word.
-- About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos.
-- However, about ten days before their death, which they seldom fail in computing, they return the visits that have been made them by those who are nearest in the neighbourhood, being car-ried in a convenient sledge drawn by Yahoos; which vehicle they use, not only upon this occasion, but when they grow old, upon long journeys, or when they are lamed by any ac-cident: and therefore when the dying Houyhnhnms return those visits, they take a solemn leave of their friends, as if they were going to some remote part of the country, where they designed to pass the rest of their lives.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Or, that she might harness the proprieties to the carriage of some rich young heiress or widow, and become at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes.
-- Clennam stepped forward to hand her to the Pill-Box which was at the service of all the Pills in Hampton Court Palace; and she got into that vehicle with distinguished serenity, and was driven away.
-- He was again passed by the two men, one going out and the other coming in; got into the vehicle he had left waiting, and was driven away.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'This is not our omniboos,' said the Professor, waving the loaded vehicle away, and stopping to pick up the poor little flowers.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The latter was the eternal, living principle or soul in him; and in sleep, being for the time dissociated from the characterizing mind, which at other times employed it for its outer vehicle or agent, it spontaneously sought escape from the scorching contiguity of the frantic thing, of which, for the time, it was no longer an integral.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jingling and clattering, till distance rendered its noise inaudible, and its rapid progress only perceptible to the eye, the vehicle wound its way along the road, almost hidden in a cloud of dust: now wholly disappearing, and now becoming visible again, as intervening objects, or the intricacies of the way, permitted.
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