monkey是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 猴子,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:
-- In the northeast rose a mountain about 2,300 feet high, whose sharply defined outline was exactly like the grinning face of a monkey turned toward the sky.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'They'll find they've started in to monkey with the wrong man unless they are careful.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he continued, in the incapacity to frame delicately dif-ferent sound-symbols by which thought could be sustained.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Mowgli,' said Baloo, 'thou hast been talking with the Bandar-log the Monkey People.'
-- 'Thou hast been with the Monkey People the gray apes the people without a law the eaters of everything.
-- 'The pity of the Monkey People!'
-- Why have I never been taken among the Monkey People?
-- The Monkey People!Faugh!'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But may the saints help you, because it's just a question of time when I learn you not to monkey with the buzz-saw."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some of them were on crutches and how proud were the girls whosolicitously slowed their steps to their escorts' hopping pace!There was one gaudy splash of color among the uniformsthat put the girls' bright finery to shame and stood out in the crowd like a tropical bird a Louisiana Zouave, withbaggy blue and white striped pants, cream gaiters and tight little red jacket, a dark, grinning little monkey of a man,with his arm in a black silk sling.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I retreated to the farther corner of my room; or box; but the monkey looking in at every side, put me in such a fright, that I wanted pres-ence of mind to conceal myself under the bed, as I might easily have done.
-- The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; nei-ther do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.
-- Some of the people threw up stones, hoping to drive the monkey down; but this was strictly forbidden, or else, very probably, my brains had been dashed out.
-- The ladders were now applied, and mounted by several men; which the monkey observing, and finding himself al-most encompassed, not being able to make speed enough 150 Gulliver's Travelswith his three legs, let me drop on a ridge tile, and made his escape.
-- I was almost choked with the filthy stuff the monkey had crammed down my throat: but my dear little nurse picked it out of my mouth with a small needle, and then I fell a-vomiting, which gave me great relief.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Higher up still, the first monkey ever seen on the face of the globe clambered, gamboling and playing up the granite hills.
-- I am rather inclined to admit the existence of some animal resembling in structure the human race--of some monkey of the first geological epoc hs, like that discovered by M. Lartet in the ossiferous deposit of Sansan.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
-- After thinking some time on the bed-side, I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in the middle of the room thinking.
-- The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.
-- They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
-- It was given him neither twine nor lanyard were seen again; but the next night an iron ball, closely netted, partly rolled from the pocket of the Lakeman's monkey jacket, as he was tucking the coat into his hammock for a pillow.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The cook came up the side like a monkey for cleverness, and as soon as he saw what was doing, "So ho, mates!"
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said she, on his taking Miss Steeles's pocket handkerchief, and throwing it out of window "He is full of monkey tricks."
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