folk是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 人们; 民族; 亲属a. 民间的,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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolu-tionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Are we going to murder folk on our very door stones?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Older folk than you have wondered at the same thing before now.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At that the Wolf Folk howled with delight.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, since native children have no nerves worth speaking of, in two hours he was lying very contentedly in Petersen Sahib's hammock with Petersen Sahib's shooting-coat un-der his head, and a glass of warm milk, a little brandy, with a dash of quinine, inside of him, and while the old hairy, scarred hunters of the jungles sat three deep before him, looking at him as though he were a spirit, he told his tale in short words, as a child will, and wound up with: 'Now, if I lie in one word, send men to see, and they will find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, tracks leading to that dance-room.
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