hospitable是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 好客的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "A terrible extremity," said Paganel, "for they are not hospitable shores, and the dangers of the land are not less appalling than the dangers of the sea."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They are very hospitable people, and I am sure that they would be very glad to see you.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'But will not the general be too hospitable for you?'
-- That is why I wonder whether such a man is not too hospitable for you and me.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You two were busy cutting up the heifer, and at that moment we stood at the gates, whereon Achilles sprang to his feet, led us by the hand into the house, placed us at table, and set before us such hospitable entertainment as guests expect.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His hospitable attentions were brief, but expressive, being confined to a shake of the hand, a slap on the shoulder, a loud laugh, and a pressing invita-tion to 'fall to, and help themselves.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I lived near Victoria Station, and I recall long excursions by bus to the hospitable houses of the literary.
-- A pleasant, hospitable woman, with a harmless craze for the small lions of literary society; a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him; two nice-looking, healthy children.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But they must reach this land, whether inhabited or desolate, whether hospitable or not.
-- They were so well suited to this life, and were, besides, so accustomed to the island, that they could not have left its hospitable soil without regret!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This is too hospitable and free.'
-- So well, indeed, was his modest and retiring temper understood by those with whom he had to deal, and so jealous were they of his absence, that they required a kind of friendly bond to be entered into by two substantial housekeepers, in the sum of fifteen hundred pounds a-piece, before they would suffer him to quit their hospitable roof doubting, it appeared, that he would return, if once let loose, on any other terms.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I'm not going to endure the persecutions of your hospitable ancestors again.
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