mill是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 磨粉机, 磨坊; 作坊, 工厂,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:
-- And, sure enough, in the distance the long sails of a mill appeared, apparently about three miles off.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She would just see the pond at the mill before she went home.
-- Now my rooms at the Mill are quite complete, I want them at the bottom of the sea.
-- Ursula stayed at the Mill with Birkin for a week or two.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Trained by main force; broken, not bent; heavily ironed with an object on which I was never consulted and which was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before I was of age, and exiled there until my father's death there, a year ago; always grinding in a mill I always hated; what is to be expected from me in middle life?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What mill!Why, the mill--the mill as takes up so little room that it'll work inside a Stone Jug; and always goes better when the wind's low with people, than when it's high; acos then they can't get workmen.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then I wanted a mill to grind it sieves to dress it, yeast and salt to make it into bread, and an oven to bake it; but all these things I did without, as shall be observed; and yet the corn was an inestimable comfort and advantage to me too.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then I struck up the road, and when I passed the mill I see a sign on it, 'Phelps's Sawmill,' and when I come to the farm-houses, two or three hundred yards further along, I kept my eyes peeled, but didn't see nobody around, though it was good daylight now.
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