acquainted是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 熟悉的,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Then he would be acquainted with my grandfather, who commanded the _Warwick_."
-- Eugene had yet to learn that no one in Paris should present himself in any house without first making himself acquainted with the whole history of its owner, and of its owner's wife and family, so that he may avoid making any of the terrible blunders which in Poland draw forth the picturesque exclamation, "Harness five bullocks to your cart!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You are well acquainted with my failure and how heavily I bore the disappointment.
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
-- I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; finding that he was unemployed in this city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.
-- But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.
-- Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's appre-hensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It were but lonesome then," said Joe, "living here alone, and I got acquainted with your sister.
-- You're right, old chap!When I got acquainted with your sister, it were the talk how she was bringing you up by hand.
-- (I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.)
-- "I am not acquainted with this country, gentlemen, but it seems a solitary country towards the river."
-- "You are well acquainted with it now?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They are well 349enough acquainted with the motions of those two luminar-ies, and understand the nature of eclipses; and this is the utmost progress of their astronomy.
-- But, if these cen-surers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the Houyhnhnms, they would soon change their opinion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Surely, none of us in our sober senses and acquainted with figures, are to be told at this time of day, that one of the foremost elements in the existence of the Coketown working-people had been for scores of years, deliberately set at nought?
-- 'I was acquainted with all this, you know,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'except the last clause, long ago.
-- 'But oh, my friends and brothers!Oh, men and Englishmen, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown!What shall we say of that man that working-man, that I should find it necessary so to libel the glorious name who, being practically and well acquainted with the grievances and wrongs of you, the injured pith and marrow of this land, and having heard you, with a noble and majestic unanimity that will make Tyrants tremble, resolve for to subscribe to the funds of the United Aggregate Tribunal, and to abide by the injunctions issued by that body for your benefit, whatever they may be what, I ask you, will you say of that working-man, since such I must acknowledge him to be, who, at such a time, deserts his post, and sells his flag; who, at such a time, turns a traitor and a craven and a recreant, who, at such a time, is not ashamed to make to you the dastardly and humiliating avowal that he will hold himself aloof, and will not be one of those associated in the gallant stand for Freedom and for Right?'
-- Not only did he see no Rachael all the time, but he avoided every chance of seeing her; for, although he knew that the prohibition did not yet formally extend to the women working in the factories, he found that some of them with whom he was acquainted were changed to him, and he feared to try others, and dreaded that Rachael might be even singled out from the rest if she were seen in his company.
-- 'But I am acquainted with these chaps,' said Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our horses, however, appeared not only well acquainted with the country, but by a kind of instinct, knew which was the best road.
-- Having got over our difficulty, and getting more and more excited- "Yes, gentlemen, I am well acquainted with all these matters, and know, also, that Cuvier and Blumenbach fully recognized in these bones the undeniable remains of mammoths of the Quaternary period.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I asked you last night,' said Clennam, 'how you had become acquainted with my mother.
-- Plornish observed, not smiling in return, And yet he hadn't the pleasure of being acquainted with the gentleman, neither.
-- Me and my wife, we are well acquainted with Miss Dorrit.'
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