knight是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 骑士, 武士; 爵士,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A knight with a gleaming plume, and most mag-nificently dressed, held him before him on the horse, and thus they rode through the wood to the old town of Bor-dingborg, and that was a large and very lively town.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was still a young girl'sdream of the Perfect Knight and her dream asked no more than acknowledgment of his love, went no further thanhopes of a kiss.
-- The bright new sheen of the gray coat was sadly at variance withthe worn and patched butternut trousers and the scarred boots, but if he had been clothed in silver armor he could nothave looked more the shining knight to her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths a-blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin,--in short, do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I am not the one who carried away the victory,' said he, 'but a strange knight who came to my assistance with his soldiers.'
-- The daughter wanted to hear who the strange knight was, but the king did not know, and said: 'He followed the enemy, and I did not see him again.'
-- He gave the order that if the knight who caught the apple, should go away again they should pursue him, and if he would not come back willingly, they were to cut him down and stab him.
-- 'Are you the knight who came ev-ery day to the festival, always in different colours, and who caught the three golden apples?'
-- But I am likewise the knight who helped you to your victory over your enemies.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It won't last!Connie looked at the burly Scottish knight who had done himself well all his life, and her eyes, her big, still-wondering blue eyes became vague.
-- And Connie found it curiously objectionable to see Mrs Bolton, flushed and tremulous like a little girl, touching her queen or her knight with uncertain fingers, then drawing away again.
-- It looked just like the sort of conceit the knight most loathed, the conceit of self-abasement.
-- The knight lifted his eyebrows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had the honour of making your acquaintance of presenting my letter; I am a Knight of Industry, at your service, madame, but my polished manners had won me so much of success, as a master of languages, among your compatriots who are as stiff as their own starch is to one another, but are ready to relax to a foreign gentleman of polished manners and of observing one or two little things,' he glanced around the room and smiled, 'about this honourable house, to know which was necessary to assure me, and to convince me that I had the distinguished pleasure of making the acquaintance of the lady I sought.
-- On no fewer than four occasions the police were called in to receive denunciations of Mr Meagles as a Knight of Industry, a good-for-nothing, and a thief, all of which opprobrious language he bore with the best temper (having no idea what it meant), and was in the most ignominious manner escorted to steam-boats and public carriages, to be got rid of, talking all the while, like a cheerful and fluent Briton as he was, with Mother under his arm.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Once on a time, a knight went out into the world to seek his fortune, for he had nothing but his sword and his shield.
-- The knight agreed to try, and got on slowly but surely, for the colt was a gallant fellow, and soon learned to love his new master, though he was freakish and wild.
-- Ev-ery day, when he gave his lessons to this pet of the king's, the knight rode him through the city, and as he rode, he looked everywhere for a certain beautiful face, which he had seen many times in his dreams, but never found.
-- The knight wished intensely that he could free them, but he was poor and could only go by each day, watching for the sweet face and longing to see it out in the sunshine.
-- 'Thankee, ' said the knight politely, as he took a pinch and sneezed seven times so violently that his head fell off.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject--the proper penitent, grovelling at a woman's slipper.
-- Chapter VI THE MACHINE AND THE MAIDEN--A KNIGHT OF TO-DAY At the flat that evening Carrie felt a new phase of its atmosphere.
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