gambler是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 赌徒,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《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On every piece of waste or common ground, some small gambler drove his noisy trade, and bellowed to the idle passersby to stop and try their chance; the crowd grew thicker and more noisy; gilt gingerbread in blanket-stalls exposed its glories to the dust; and often a four-horse carriage, dashing by, obscured all objects in the gritty cloud it raised, and left them, stunned and blinded, far behind.
-- And yet she was the innocent cause of all this torture, and he, gambling with such a savage thirst for gain as the most insatiable gambler never felt, had not one selfish thought!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.
-- It was the gambler Myaskin, whom he knew, coming from the club.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A man could gamble himself to povertyand still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast.
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