mop是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 墩布, 洗碗刷,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They who had at first kept cool could not endure the strain of wakening at night to see upon their windows the glow of the pile of logs on Admiral Knob, the emergency crematory where Gustaf Sondelius and his curly gray mop had been shoveled into the fire along with a crippled Negro boy and a Hindu beggar.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- *Partly to show the indispensableness of this act, it may here be stated, that, in the old Dutch fishery, a mop was used to dash the running line with water; in many other ships, a wooden piggin, or bailer, is set apart for that purpose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 82CHAPTER VII Enlarge My Circle of AcquaintanceI HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the woodenleg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, fromwhich I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr.Creakle and the boys.
-- I was not mistaken; for the mop came intothe schoolroom before long, and turned out Mr. Mell and me, wholived where we could, and got on how we could, for some days,during which we were always in the way of two or three youngwomen, who had rarely shown themselves before, and were socontinually in the midst of dust that I sneezed almost as much as ifSalem House had been a great snuff-box.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- continued Mrs. Coggan (a wholesome-looking lady who had a voice for each class of remark according to the emotion involved; who could toss a pancake or twirl a mop with the accuracy of pure mathematics, and who at this moment showed hands shaggy with fragments of dough and arms encrusted with flour).
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It will do my brains good to have that mop taken off.
-- 'Hannah will tell us what to do, and we'll have everything nice when you come home,' added Beth, getting out her mop and dish tub without delay.
-- He pulled her hair whenever she came near him, upset his bread and milk to plague her when she had newly cleaned his cage, made Mop bark by pecking at him while Madam dozed, called her names before company, and behaved in all respects like an reprehensible old bird.
-- Brooms and dishcloths never could be as distasteful as they once had been, for Beth had presided over both, and something of her housewifely spirit seemed to linger around the little mop and the old brush, never thrown away.
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