memorial是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 记忆的, 纪念的n. 纪念物, 纪念碑, 纪念馆,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Meriones, who had come in fourth, carried off the two talents of gold, and the fifth prize, the two-handled urn, being unawarded, Achil-les gave it to Nestor, going up to him among the assembled Argives and saying, 'Take this, my good old friend, as an heirloom and memorial of the funeral of Patroclus for you shall see him no more among the Argives.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They looked in vain for the form they had so recently seen stalking along in silent shores, while a low and regular wash of the little waves, by announcing that the waters were not yet subsided, furnished a frightful memorial of the deed of blood they had just witnessed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would be too late for the funeral, of course, but he would be in time for the memorial dinner, and there at once he would see Sonia.
-- I am not going on principle, not to take part in the revolt-ing convention of memorial dinners, that's why!Though, of course, one might go to laugh at it芒聙娄.
-- Katerina Ivanovna was irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited had come to the funeral, except the Pole who had just managed to run into the cem-etery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest and most insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched creatures, many of them not quite sober.
-- What a memorial dinner for you!Merciful heavens!Defend her, why are you all standing still?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Is it a Memorial about his own history that he is writing, aunt?'
-- Nor wasit at all necessary that he should trouble himself with suchquestions, for if anything were certain under the sun, it was certainthat the Memorial never would be finished.
-- In thiscondition he felt more incapable of finishing the Memorial thanever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that unlucky headof King Charles the First got into it.
-- My aunt reported to us, afterwards, that, at first, he was like aman playing the kettle-drums, and constantly divided hisattentions between the two; but that, finding this confuse andfatigue him, and having his copy there, plainly before his eyes, hesoon sat at it in an orderly business-like manner, and postponedthe Memorial to a more convenient time.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no want of likeness, she had been fortunate in the attitude, and as she meant to throw in a little improvement to the figure, to give a little more height, and considerably more elegance, she had great confidence of its being in ev-ery way a pretty drawing at last, and of its filling its destined place with credit to them both a standing memorial of the beauty of one, the skill of the other, and the friendship of both; with as many other agreeable associations as Mr. El-ton's very promising attachment was likely to add.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- THE HOMESTEAD A VISITOR HALF-CONFIDENCESBy daylight, the bower of Oak's new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a distinct property, and merged in the vast tract of a non-resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I confess, it was whispered to me, 'that I was bound in duty, as a subject of England, to have given in a memorial to a secretary of state at my first coming over; because, what-ever lands are discovered by a subject belong to the crown.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you get it (which you may after a time), that memorial must be entered in that Department, sent to be registered in this Department, sent back to be signed by that Department, sent back to be countersigned by this Department, and then it will begin to be regularly before that Department.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With much difficulty and some danger she was dug out, for Jo was so overcome with laughter while she excavated that her knife went too far, cut the poor foot, and left a lasting memorial of one artistic attempt, at least.
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