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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Because,' replied Aglaya gravely, 'in the poem the knight is described as a man capable of living up to an ideal all his life.
-- In the poem it is not stated exactly what the ideal was, but it was evidently some vision, some revelation of pure Beauty, and the knight wore round his neck, instead of a scarf, a rosary.
-- 'Well, prince, that's enough to knock me down!It as-tounds me!Here you are, as simple and innocent as a knight of the golden age, and yet ... yet ... you read a man's soul like a psychologist!Now, do explain it to me, prince, because I ...
-- He is adrunkard to begin with, and a liberal (in the sense of other people's pockets), otherwise with more of the ancient knight about him than of the modern liberal.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nestor, knight of Gerene, then ad-dressed them.
-- As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Nestor, knight of Gerene, began to speak.
-- These were commanded by Nestor, knight of Gerene, and with him there came ninety ships.
-- As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheek-piece of a horse, and is to be laid up in a treasure house many a knight is fain to bear it, but the king keeps it as an ornament of which both horse and driver may be proud even so, O Menelaus, were your shapely thighs and your legs down to your fair ancles stained with blood.
-- And Nestor, knight of Gerene, answered, 'Son of Atreus, I too would gladly be the man I was when I slew mighty Ereuthalion; but the gods will not give us everything at one and the same time.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said the Queen, looking over the book (in which Alice had put 'The White Knight is sliding down the poker.
-- and a Knight dressed in crimson armour came galloping down upon her, brandishing a great club.
-- the Knight cried, as he tumbled off his horse.
-- He drew up at Alice's side, and tumbled off his horse just as the Red Knight had done: then he got on again, and the two Knights sat and looked at each other for some time without speaking.
-- the Red Knight said at last.
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:
-- At instants of momentary wakefulness he mistook a bush for his associ-ate sentinel; his head next sank upon his shoulder, which, in its turn, sought the support of the ground; and, finally, his whole person became relaxed and pliant, and the young man sank into a deep sleep, dreaming that he was a knight of ancient chivalry, holding his midnight vigils before the tent of a recaptured princess, whose favor he did not despair of gaining, by such a proof of devotion and watchfulness.
-- Will she find an excuse for the neglect of the knight in the duty of a soldier?'
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