reward是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 奖赏,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:
-- It was a police notice, and announcing the escape of the convicts from Perth, and offering a reward for the capture of Ben Joyce of pounds 100 sterling.
-- He handed her the Australian and New Zealand Gazette they had bought in Seymour, and added that a reward had been offered by the police for the apprehension of Ben Joyce, a redoubtable bandit, who had become a noted character during the last eighteen months, for doing deeds of villainy and crime.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Also, that in Henry VIIIth's time, a certain cook of the court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of whale.
-- "Bell-boy, sir; ship's-crier; ding, dong, ding!Pip!Pip!Pip!One hundred pounds of clay reward for Pip; five feet high looks cowardly quickest known by that!Ding, dong, ding!Who's seen Pip the coward?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And notwithstanding a offered reward of ten pound, which was afterwards increased to twenty pound.
-- Oliver was ordered into instant confinement; and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate, offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish.
-- 'FIVE GUINEAS REWARD 'Whereas a young boy, named Oliver Twist, absconded, or was enticed, on Thursday evening last, from his home, at Pentonville; and has not since been heard of.
-- The above reward will be paid to any person who will give such information as will lead to the discovery of the said Oliver Twist, or tend to throw any light upon his previous history, in which the advertiser is, for many reasons, warmly interested.'
-- Giles is a faithful fellow and an old servant, I know; but you can make it up to him in a thousand ways, and reward him for being such a good shot besides.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I let them know that by my direction the ship had been seized; that she lay now in the road; and they might see by-and-by that their new captain had received the reward of his villainy, and that they would see him hanging at the yard-arm; that, as to them, I wanted to know what they had to say why I should not execute them as pirates taken in the fact, as by my commission they could not doubt but I had authority so to do.
-- I showed him all that was sent to me; I told him that, next to the providence of Heaven, which disposed all things, it was owing to him; and that it now lay on me to reward him, which I would do a hundred-fold: so I first re-turned to him the hundred moidores I had received of him; then I sent for a notary, and caused him to draw up a gen-eral release or discharge from the four hundred and seventy moidores, which he had acknowledged he owed me, in the fullest and firmest manner possible.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Perhaps, then, you would bestow it as a reward on that person who wrote the ablest defence of your favourite maxim, that no one can ever be in love more than once in their life your opinion on that point is unchanged, I presume?"
-- With such a reward for her tears, the child was too wise to cease crying.
-- His chief reward for the painful exertion of disclosing past sorrows and present humiliations, was given in the pitying eye with which Marianne sometimes observed him, and the gentleness of her voice whenever (though it did not often happen) she was obliged, or could oblige herself to speak to him.
-- Marianne sighed out her similar apprehension; and Elinor's heart wrung for the feelings of Edward, while braving his mother's threats, for a woman who could not reward him.
-- Marianne slept through every blast; and the travellers they had a rich reward in store, for every present inconvenience.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Two trips were an average reward for so much waiting--a little over three hours' work for fifty cents.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So there's a reward out for him three hun- dred dollars.
-- And there's a reward out for old Finn, too two hun-dred dollars.
-- It said he run away from St. Jacques' planta- tion, forty mile below New Orleans, last winter, and likely went north, and whoever would catch him and send him back he could have the reward and expenses.
-- So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote: Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.
-- I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 22 Pinocchio discovers the thieves and, as a reward for faithfulness, he regains his liberty.
-- As he slept, he dreamed of his Fairy, beautiful, smiling, and happy, who kissed him and said to him, "Bravo, Pinocchio!In reward for your kind heart, I forgive you for all your old mischief.
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