pump是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 泵, 抽水机 v. 抽取, 盘问, 追问, 灌注,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:
-- Adelai-da tried to pump him a little by asking, 'who was the uncle they were talking about, and what was it that had happened in Petersburg?'
-- 'I don't want you to suspect that I have simply come here to deceive you and pump information out of you!'
-- 'Oh, but I haven't the slightest doubt that you did come to pump me,' said the prince, laughing himself, at last; 'and I dare say you are quite prepared to deceive me too, so far as that goes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He continued to pump poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence came his riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in his affairs and habits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It arose out of a scuffle between twochurch-wardens, one of whom was alleged to have pushed theother against a pump; the handle of which pump projecting into aschool-house, which school-house was under a gable of the church-roof, made the push an ecclesiastical offence.
-- The girls had gone home, when my name burst into bloom onTraddles's door; and the sharp boy looked, all day, as if he hadnever heard of Sophy, shut up in a back-room, glancing down fromher work into a sooty little strip of garden with a pump in it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That's turned into a solid iron pump with a large stone trough, and all complete."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I lay down on the edge, for the throb of the great pump below made me giddy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Just so, but under these conditions the man is not at liberty; he is attached to the pump which sends him air through an india-rubber tube, and if we were obliged to be thus held to the Nautilus, we could not go far."
-- You can hear the pump working.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Since you have done my wife and myself the honour of drinking our healths and happiness, I suppose I must acknowledge the same; though, as you all know me, and know what I am, and what my extraction was, you won't expect a speech from a man who, when he sees a Post, says "that's a Post," and when he sees a Pump, says "that's a Pump," and is not to be got to call a Post a Pump, or a Pump a Post, or either of them a Toothpick.
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:
-- She went to the back, into the pent-house scullery, where the pump was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three RelationsThe brothers William and Frederick Dorrit, walking up and down the College-yard of course on the aristocratic or Pump side, for the Father made it a point of his state to be chary of going among his children on the Poor side, except on Sunday mornings, Christmas Days, and other occasions of ceremony, in the observance whereof he was very punctual, and at which times he laid his hand upon the heads of their infants, and blessed those young insolvents with a benignity that was highly edifying the brothers, walking up and down the College-yard together, were a memorable sight.
-- and steered his brother clear of the handle of the pump by the threadbare sleeve.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Espying the mate drawing near as he was toiling at the pump with the rest, the Lakeman affected not to notice him, but unawed, went on with his gay banterings.
-- "'Damn your eyes!what's that pump stopping for?'
-- And with that the pump clanged like fifty fire-engines; the men tossed their hats off to it, and ere long that peculiar gasping of the lungs was heard which denotes the fullest tension of life's utmost energies.
-- "Quitting the pump at last, with the rest of his band, the Lakeman went forward all panting, and sat himself down on the windlass; his face fiery red, his eyes bloodshot, and wiping the profuse sweat from his brow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the rest of the day, he was shut up in the back kitchen, in company with a pump and a slice of bread; and at night, Mrs. Sowerberry, after making various remarks outside the door, by no means complimentary to the memory of his mother, looked into the room, and, amidst the jeers and pointings of Noah and Charlotte, ordered him upstairs to his dismal bed.
-- He spoke to a postboy who was dozing under the gateway; and who, after hearing what he wanted, referred him to the ostler; who after hearing all he had to say again, referred him to the landlord; who was a tall gentleman in a blue neckcloth, a white hat, drab breeches, and boots with tops to match, leaning against a pump by the stable-door, picking his teeth with a silver toothpick.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, the men roused me, and told me that I, that was able to do noth-ing before, was as well able to pump as another; at which I stirred up and went to the pump, and worked very heartily.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he asked, secretly irritated and chagrined to think that he should be made to pump for information in this manner.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had my mind on the children all the time; I wanted to get them out to one side and pump them a little, and find out who I was.
-- You might pump at him a week, it wouldn't make no difference.
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