proprietor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 所有者， 业主，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, you are a landed proprietor yourself!'
-- Give me their books, give me their studies, their memoirs, and though I am not a literary critic, yet I will prove as clear as day that every chapter and every word of their writings has been the work of a former landed proprietor of the old school.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of these was the proprietor of a giant, and a little lady without legs or arms, who had jogged forward in a van; the other, a silent gentleman who earned his living by showing tricks upon the cards, and who had rather deranged the natural expression of his countenance by putting small leaden lozenges into his eyes and bringing them out at his mouth, which was one of his professional accomplishments.
-- Very early next morning, Short fulfilled his promise, and knocking softly at her door, entreated that she would get up directly, as the proprietor of the dogs was still snoring, and if they lost no time they might get a good deal in advance both of him and the conjuror, who was talking in his sleep, and from what he could be heard to say, appeared to be balancing a donkey in his dreams.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith everyone all down the street, the sweetstuff seller, cocoanut shy proprietor and his assistant, the swing man, little boys and girls, rustic dandies, smart wenches, smocked elders and aproned gipsies began running towards the inn, and in a miraculously short space of time a crowd of perhaps forty people, and rapidly increasing, swayed and hooted and inquired and exclaimed and suggested, in front of Mrs. Hall's establishment.
-- This stranger, to the perceptions of the proprietor of the cocoanut shy, appeared to be talking to himself, and Mr. Huxter remarked the same thing.
-- The first to appear was the proprietor of the cocoanut shy, a burly man in a blue jersey.
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：
-- exclaimed the proprietor of the condemned an-imal, aloud, without regard to the whispering tones used by the others; 'spare the foal of Miriam!it is the come-ly offspring of a faithful dam, and would willingly injure naught.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also a belief that its proprietor must once have been called Doctor Vickerson, but for years he had been only The Doc, and he was scurfier and much less adjustable than the chair.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fair-ly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situa-tion, low and sheltered its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up. The house was larger than Hartfield, and totally unlike it, covering a good deal of ground, rambling and irregular, with many com-436 Emmafortable, and one or two handsome rooms. It was just what it ought to be, and it looked what it was and Emma felt an increasing respect for it, as the residence of a family of such true gentility, untainted in blood and understanding. Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The proprietor shook his head.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The proprietor and two clerks stood on thesidewalk with armfuls of bolts of cotton cloth they had been displaying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was horrible, and gave me a sickening idea of London; the more so as the Lord Chief Justice's proprietor wore (from his hat down to his boots and up again to his pocket-handkerchief inclusive) mildewed clothes which had evidently not belonged to him originally, and which I took it into my head he had bought cheap of the executioner.
-- These were agreeably dispersed among small specimens of china and glass, various neat trifles made by the proprietor of the museum, and some tobacco-stoppers carved by the Aged.
-- I was, and I am, sensible that the air of this chamber, in its strong combination of stable with soup-stock, might have led one to infer that the coaching department was not doing well, and that the enterprising proprietor was boiling down the horses for the refreshment department.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby stared with a bursting pride at Mr. Harthouse, as much as to say, 'I am the proprietor of this female, and she's worth your attention, I think.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Say, name first mentioned to my proprietor by Plornish in the Yard.
-- He, therefore, first requesting Mr Pancks to remember his voluntary declaration that his proprietor had no part in the disclosure, and that his own intentions were good (two declarations which that coaly little gentleman with the greatest ardour repeated), openly told him that as to the Dorrit lineage or former place of habitation, he had no information to communicate, and that his knowledge of the family did not extend beyond the fact that it appeared to be now reduced to five members; namely, to two brothers, of whom one was single, and one a widower with three children.
-- 'I belong body and soul to my proprietor,' said Pancks; 'you saw my proprietor having his dinner below.
-- He stood dingily smiling, and breathing hard at them, with a most curious air; as if, instead of being his proprietor's grubber, he were the triumphant proprietor of the Marshalsea, the Marshal, all the turnkeys, and all the Collegians.
-- 'My proprietor isn't going to stand this, you know,' Mr Pancks would proceed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlord of the Spouter-Inn had recommended us to his cousin Hosea Hussey of the Try Pots, whom he asserted to be the proprietor of one of the best kept hotels in all Nantucket, and moreover he had assured us that Cousin Hosea, as he called him, was famous for his chowders.
-- As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, my dear Father, how good you are!And to think that I--Oh, but if you only knew how many misfortunes have fallen on my head and how many troubles I have had!Just think that on the day you sold your old coat to buy me my A-B-C book so that I could go to school, I ran away to the Marionette Theater and the proprietor caught me and wanted to burn me to cook his roast lamb!He was the one who gave me the five gold pieces for you, but I met the Fox and the Cat, who took me to the Inn of the Red Lobster.
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