warfare是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 战争(状态) ; 斗争; 冲突,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:
-- Their mode of warfare is of the guerilla type; they form skirmishing parties, come down in small detachments, and pillage the colonists' homes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But some strange force of evil would not let her give herself up to her feelings, as though the rules of warfare would not permit her to surrender.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.
-- The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste; though his sober linea-ments and anxious eye sufficiently betrayed that he had no very strong professional relish for the, as yet, untried and dreaded warfare of the wilderness.
-- As if satisfied with the toil of marching through the wilderness to encounter his enemy, the French general, though of approved skill, had neglected to seize the adjacent mountains; whence the besieged might have been exterminated with impunity, and which, in the more mod-ern warfare of the country, would not have been neglected for a single hour.
-- This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.
-- The beauty and man-liness of warfare has been much deformed, Major Heyward, by the arts of your Monsieur Vauban.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would 'double the schoolmaster up, and lay him on a shelf of his own schoolhouse;' and he was too wary to give him an opportunity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I thoughtit my duty to hint at the discomfort my aunt would sustain, fromliving in a continual state of guerilla warfare with Mrs. Crupp; butshe disposed of that objection summarily by declaring, that, on thefirst demonstration of hostilities, she was prepared to astonish Mrs.Crupp for the whole remainder of her natural life.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not merely when a state of warfare with one young lady might be supposed to recommend the other, but from the very first; and she was not satisfied with expressing a natural and reasonable admiration but without solicita-tion, or plea, or privilege, she must be wanting to assist and befriend her. Before Emma had forfeited her confidence, and about the third time of their meeting, she heard all Mrs. Elton's knight-errantry on the subject. 'Jane Fairfax is absolutely charming, Miss Woodhouse. I quite rave about Jane Fairfax. A sweet, interesting creature.
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