office是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 办公室, 办事处; 职务, 公职; 部, 局, 处,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He carried his own low temperature al-ways about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
-- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dan-gling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
-- I passed his office window; and as it was not shut up, and he had a candle inside, I could scarcely help seeing him.
-- It was an office still, but not his.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly be-lieved, when they had bowed a customer out, still to keep on bowing in the empty office until they bowed another cus-tomer in.
-- For some months past, Miss Pross and Mr. Cruncher had discharged the office of purveyors; the former carrying the money; the latter, the basket.
-- Could you favour me, in confidence, with some minutes of your company at the office of Tell-son's Bank, for instance?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns, the clothes manu-factured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining invisible to everyone who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character.
-- 'I will send my faithful old minister to the weavers,' said the Emperor at last, after some deliberation, 'he will be best able to see how the cloth looks; for he is a man of sense, and no one can be more suitable for his office than be is.'
-- 'It is really pleasant enough,' said he: 'the whole day long I sit in the office amid the driest law-papers, and at night I fly in my dream as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg; one might really write a very pretty comedy upon it.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This post he had received through his sister Anna's husband, Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin, who held one of the most important positions in the ministry to whose department the Moscow office belonged.
-- He regarded Russia as a ruined country, rather after the style of Turkey, and the government of Russia as so bad that he never permitted himself to criticize its doings seriously, and yet he was a functionary of that government and a model marshal of nobility, and when he drove about he always wore the cockade of office and the cap with the red band.
-- On the previous day Stepan Arkadyevitch had appeared at the office in a uniform, and the new chief had been very affable and had talked to him as to an acquaintance.
-- In the corps Golenishtchev had belonged to the liberal party; he left the corps without entering the army, and had never taken office under the government.
-- If Levin could have understood why, just as he saw why one can only approach the booking office of a railway station in single file, it would not have been so vexatious and tiresome to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The commissioner of police was sitting in his office at nine o'clock one evening, when the following telegraphic dispatch was put into his hands:Suez to London.
-- One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
-- They entered the steamer office and secured cabins for four persons.
-- It is situated in the bay of Yeddo, and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his office in his own.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He hurried into the slate- colored hall of the Main Medical, up the wide stairs to the office of Max Gottlieb.
-- Oh, no; the bird that succeeds is the one that gets an office on a northeast corner, near a trolley car junction, with a 'phone number that'll be easy for patients to remember!Honest!He said so!I swear, when I graduate I believe I'll be a ship's doctor.
-- You see the world that way, and at least you aren't racing up and down the boat trying to drag patients away from some rival doc that has an office on another deck!"
-- "Nothing is more important in inspiring him than to have such an office that as soon as he steps into it, you have begun to sell him the idea of being properly cured.
-- He was still shaky next morning, and he had already taken a drink to make it possible to live through the morning when he received the note from Dean Silva bidding him report to the office at once.
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