farmer是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 农民, 农场主,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Environed by them, while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded, those two of the large jaws, and those other two of the plain and the fair faces, trod with stir enough, and carried their divine rights with a high hand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Moreover, although he had lived so long in the closest relations with the peasants, as farmer and arbitrator, and what was more, as adviser (the peasants trusted him, and for thirty miles round they would come to ask his advice), he had no definite views of "the people," and would have been as much at a loss to answer the question whether he knew "the people" as the question whether he liked them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Late one afternoon, when he was in a melancholy way preparing to go home, into the office stamped a grizzled Swedish farmer who grumbled, "Doc, I got a fish-hook caught in my thumb and its all swole."
-- To Arrowsmith, intern in Zenith General Hospital with its out-patient clinic treating hundreds a day, the dressing of a hand had been less important than borrowing a match, but to Dr. Arrowsmith of Wheatsylvania it was a hectic operation, and the farmer a person remarkable and very charming.
-- He had to arouse the house with wild squawkings of his horn, and an irate farmer who bellowed, "Who's there?
-- "Being called to attend the little daughter of Henry Norwalk of near Delft the well-known farmer and finding the little one near death with diphtheria he made a desperate attempt to save it by himself bringing antitoxin from Blassner our ever popular druggist, who had on hand a full and fresh supply.
-- The Pickerbaugh twins, Arbuta and Gladiola, now aged six, were to show the public how to brush its teeth, and in fact they did, until a sixty-year-old farmer of whom they had lovingly inquired, "Do you brush your teeth daily?"
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Ever since the day about four years ago that Miss Taylor and I met with him in Broadway Lane, when, be-cause it began to drizzle, he darted away with so much gallantry, and borrowed two umbrellas for us from Farmer Mitchell's, I made up my mind on the subject.
-- But a farmer can need none of my help, and is, therefore, in one sense, as much above my notice as in every other he is below it.'
-- Mr. Elton was the very person fixed on by Emma for driving the young farmer out of Harriet's head.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
-- What possessed her to indulge in such a performance in the sight of the sparrows, blackbirds, and unperceived farmer who were alone its spectators, whether the smile began as a factitious one, to test her capacity in that art, nobody knows; it ended certainly in a real smile.
-- They were the notes of Farmer Oak's flute.
-- A rectangular space of light appeared in the side of the hut, and in the opening the outline of Farmer Oak's figure.
-- A close examination of the ground hereabout, even by the wan starlight only, revealed how a portion of what would have been casually called a wild slope had been appropriated by Farmer Oak for his great purpose this winter.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Too many of their fathers and grandfathershad come up to wealth from the small farmer class for that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he presently presented himself under worthier circumstances; for, the Genius of Youthful Love being in want of assistance,--on account of the parental brutality of an ignorant farmer who opposed the choice of his daughter's heart, by purposely falling upon the object, in a flour-sack, out of the first-floor window,--summoned a sententious Enchanter; and he, coming up from the antipodes rather unsteadily, after an apparently violent journey, proved to be Mr. Wopsle in a high-crowned hat, with a necromantic work in one volume under his arm.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 22 Grimms' Fairy TalesTHE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS n honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faith-Aful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.
-- 195THE MISER IN THE BUSH farmer had a faithful and diligent servant, who had Aworked hard for him three years, without having been paid any wages.
-- The farmer was a sad miser, and knew that his man was very simple-hearted; so he took out threepence, and gave him for every year's service a penny.
-- 266 Grimms' Fairy TalesTHE FOX AND THE HORSE farmer had a horse that had been an excellent faithful A servant to him: but he was now grown too old to work; so the farmer would give him nothing more to eat, and said, 'I want you no longer, so take yourself off out of my stable; I shall not take you back again until you are stronger than a lion.'
-- 'Here he is, master,' said he, 'I have got the better of him': and when the farmer saw his old servant, his heart relented, and he said.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The farmer having (as I suppose by their talk) received such an account of me as his servant could give him, took a piece of a small straw, about the size of a walking-staff, and therewith lifted up the lappets of my coat; which it seems he thought to be some kind of covering that nature had given me.
-- The company were, the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old grandmother.
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