nursery是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 托儿所, 保育室; 苗圃,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What you must do,' said old Sea Catch, after he had heard his son's adventures, 'is to grow up and be a big seal like your father, and have a nursery on the beach, and then they will leave you alone.
-- 'I've no nursery to fight for,' said Kotick.
-- At nightfall he ran into Teddy's nursery to watch how kerosene lamps were lighted, and when Teddy went to bed Rikki-tikki climbed up too.
-- If a snake came into the nursery now ' But Teddy's mother wouldn't think of anything so aw-ful.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- pursued the Frenchwoman, laughing, and she reminded him of his joke about the three young ladies whom he had compared to the three bears in the English nursery tale.
-- He would go into the nursery several times a day, and sit there for a long while, so that the nurses, who were at first afraid of him, got quite used to his presence.
-- Towards the end of February it happened that Anna's baby daughter, who had been named Anna too, fell ill. Alexey Alexandrovitch was in the nursery in the morning, and leaving orders for the doctor to be sent for, he went to his office.
-- In the day nursery Seryozha, leaning on the table with his legs on a chair, was drawing and chatting away merrily.
-- All had heard that their mistress had come, and that Kapitonitch had let her in, and that she was even now in the nursery, and that their master always went in person to the nursery at nine o'clock, and every one fully comprehended that it was impossible for the husband and wife to meet, and that they must prevent it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At odd dull times, nursery tales come up into the memory,unrecognised for what they are.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oh!yes she will have her own room, of course; the room she always has; and there is the nursery for the children, just as usual, you know.
-- Ex-cept the Sucklings and Bragges, there is not such another nursery establishment, so liberal and elegant, in all Mrs. Elton's acquaintance.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Suddenly the young man's ambition discerned in those recollections of hers, which had been like nursery fairy tales to her nephews and nieces, the elements of a social success at least as important as the success which he had achieved at the Ecole de Droit.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She went into Wade's nursery and found him sitting clutched in Prissy's arms, half dressed,hiccoughing quietly.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 71 The meaner families who have children at these nurser-ies, are obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible, to return to the steward of the nursery a small monthly share of their gettings, to be a portion for the child; and therefore all parents are limited in their ex-penses by the law.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In short, it was the moral of the old nursery fable:There was an old woman, and what do you think?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this nature, that several solemn lords had attained the reputation of being quite unearthly prodigies of business, solely from having practised, How not to do it, as the head of the Circumlocution Office.
-- At no Mother's knee but hers had he ever dwelt in his youth on hopeful promises, on playful fancies, on the harvests of tenderness and humility that lie hidden in the early-fostered seeds of the imagination; on the oaks of retreat from blighting winds, that have the germs of their strong roots in nursery acorns.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Margaret found a place as nursery governess and felt rich with her small salary.
-- When I got back to the nursery there was such an uproar in the parlor that I looked in, and there was Mr. Bhaer down on his hands and knees, with Tina on his back, Kitty leading him with a jump rope, and Minnie feeding two small boys with seedcakes, as they roared and ramped in cages built of chairs.
-- The poor man was very uncomfortable, for the children had bereft him of his wife, home was merely a nursery and the perpetual 'hushing' made him feel like a brutal intrud-er whenever he entered the sacred precincts of Babyland.
-- The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his 'sewinsheen', a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go 'wound and wound'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the nursery tale, with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be lodged, she and all her progeny.
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