suit是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 合适, 适合; 相配, 适应n. 一套西服; 诉讼,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the third day, he received from Iron Hans a suit of black armour and a black horse, and again he caught the apple.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make 30 Gulliver's Travelsme a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty's greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emper-or's horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.
-- Upon this imagination, he put several other questions to me, and still received rational answers: no otherwise defective than by a foreign accent, and an imperfect knowledge in the language, with some rustic phrases which I had learned at the farmer's house, and did not suit the polite style of a court.
-- I was put to bed: however, I received no other damage than the loss of a suit of clothes, which was utterly spoiled.
-- Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty desired to be satisfied in several points: and this I was the better able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was decreed for me with costs.
-- Those to whom the king had entrusted me, observing how ill I was clad, ordered a tailor to come next morning, and take measure for a suit of clothes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was one objection to the house, and that was, the very powerful odor of dried fish, of macerated meat, and of sour milk, which three fragrances combined did not at all suit my olfactory nerves.
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:
-- To Clifford he said the same, when the two men were alone: 'I'm afraid it doesn't quite suit Connie to be a demi-vierge.'
-- 'In what way doesn't it suit her?'
-- It may not suit the process of my mind.
-- He invited Michae-lis down to Wragby with Act I. Michaelis came: in summer, in a pale-coloured suit and white suede gloves, with mauve orchids for Connie, very lovely, and Act I was a great success.
-- Mr Linley was the general manager of the collieries, an elderly man from the north, with not quite enough punch to suit Clifford; not up to post-war conditions, nor post-war colliers either, with their 'ca' canny' creed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Finally said Captain Maroon, when that wouldn't suit either, 'Hand over, then!
-- And so at home he had established himself in business, and had invented and executed, and worked his way on, until, after a dozen years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings.
-- The showy house that was taken for life by the disappointed gentleman, and which does not suit him at all who is unacquainted with that haunted habitation?
-- Do me the favour to add that I shall be happy to wait on Mrs Clennam, to offer my personal compliments, and to apologise for having occasioned any agitation in this tranquil corner, if it should suit her convenience to endure the presence of a stranger for a few minutes, after he shall have changed his wet clothes and fortified himself with something to eat and drink.'
-- 'And your vocation, Gowan, may really demand this suit and service.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. March was very busy trying to finish a letter, which must go at once, and Hannah had the grumps, for being up late didn't suit her.
-- Jo happened to suit Aunt March, who was lame and needed an active person to wait upon her.
-- This did not suit Jo at all, but she accepted the place since nothing better ap-peared and, to every one's surprise, got on remarkably well with her irascible relative.
-- 'No,' said Jo, 'that dozy way wouldn't suit me.
-- I thought she'd suit Brooke, but he keeps talking to Meg, and Kate just stares at them through that ridiculous glass of hers'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They made a great many other wise and humane regulations, having reference to the ladies, which it is not necessary to repeat; kindly undertook to divorce poor married people, in consequence of the great expense of a suit in Doctors' Commons; and, instead of compelling a man to support his family, as they had theretofore done, took his family away from him, and made him a bachelor!There is no saying how many applicants for relief, under these last two heads, might have started up in all classes of society, if it had not been coupled with the workhouse; but the board were long-headed men, and had provided for this difficulty.
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