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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mount-ed, issued forth like a knight- errant in quest of adventures.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When they were sat down, the farmer placed me at some distance from him on the table, which was thirty feet high from the floor.
-- The farmer observed it, and concluding I must soon die, resolved to make as good a hand of me as he could.
-- The queen observed my coldness; and, when the farmer 122 Gulliver's Travelswas gone out of the apartment, asked me the reason.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is like a farmer who has neither to plow, to sow, nor to harrow, only to collect his harvest.
-- After traveling fully half a Danish mile, we had met neither a farmer at the door of his hut, nor even a wandering shepherd with his wild and savage flock.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- THE HISTORY OF A SQUASH Once upon a time a farmer planted a little seed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides,' thinks I, 'look at it once; why, the end of it the foot part what a small sort of end it is; whereas, if a broad footed farmer kicked me, there's a devilish broad insult.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It's very much blotted, sir,' said the farmer of infants; 'but it's formal enough, I dare say.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then I told her my father and mother was dead, and the law had bound me out to a mean old farmer in the country thirty mile back from the river, and he treated me so bad I couldn't stand it no lon-ger; he went away to be gone a couple of days, and so I took my chance and stole some of his daughter's old clothes and cleared out, and I had been three nights coming the thirty miles.
-- So I promised, and he says: 'A farmer by the name of Silas Ph ' and then he stopped.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The poor Marionette was caught in a trap set there by a Farmer for some Weasels which came every night to steal his chickens.
-- said the Farmer in an angry voice.
-- After this last warning, the Farmer went into the house and closed the door and barred it.
-- The Farmer heard the loud barks and jumped out of bed.
-- Lamp-Wick was bought by a farmer whose donkey had died the day before.
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