protection是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 保护, 警戒,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No, I don't throw stones," she was saying, in answer to something, "though I can't understand it," she went on, shrugging her shoulders, and she turned at once with a soft smile of protection towards Kitty.
-- "You call it cruelty for a husband to give his wife liberty, giving her the honorable protection of his name, simply on the condition of observing the proprieties: is that cruelty?"
-- "I don't advocate protection for the sake of private interests, but for the public weal, and for the lower and upper classes equally," he said, looking over his pince-nez at Oblonsky.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We are simply going to place her under the protection of one of her relatives, a rich merchant at Hong Kong."
-- "Yes, madam; probably to arrange for your protection and comfort in England."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Steerforth continued his protection of me, and proved a very usefulfriend, since nobody dared to annoy one whom he honoured withhis countenance.
-- But, in the then condition of my mind, wherethe play was still running high, his former protection of meappeared so deserving of my gratitude, and my old love for himoverflowed my breast so freshly and spontaneously, that I went upto him at once, with a fast-beating heart, and saidSteerforth!won'tyou speak to me?'
-- A passing thought occurred to me thatMiss Murdstone, like the pocket-instrument called a life-preserver,was not so much designed for purposes of protection as of assault.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You may have done wrong with regard to Mr. Dixon, but this is a punishment beyond what you can have merited! The kindness and protection of Mrs. Elton! 'Jane Fairfax and Jane Fairfax.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Tis a great protection to a poor maid in these illegit'mate days!"
-- Lending him what little clothing they could spare among them as a slight protection against the rapidly cooling air, they agreed to land him in the morning; and without further delay, for it was growing late, they made again towards the roadstead where their vessel lay.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
-- "Pardon me; I am in such need of protection that the nearest scrap of relationship could do me no harm."
-- His plain good sense led him to accept the position of President of the Section, so as to secure for his business the protection of those in power at that dangerous epoch.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the inter-ment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.
-- The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition.
-- I am now going to claim the protection of some friends, whom I sincerely love, and of whose favour I have some hopes.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides, he was now morefirmly than ever under the protection of the fragile Melanie.
-- Never again could Scarlett lie down, as a child, secure beneath her father's roof with the protection of her mother'slove wrapped about her like an eiderdown quilt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jane only interfered for the protection of baby."
-- "No," said he; "not till it got about that there was no protection on the premises, and it come to be considered dangerous, with convicts and Tag and Rag and Bobtail going up and down.
-- There was something so natural and winning in Clara's resigned way of looking at these stores in detail, as Herbert pointed them out; and something so confiding, loving, and innocent in her modest manner of yielding herself to Herbert's embracing arm; and something so gentle in her, so much needing protection on Mill Pond Bank, by Chinks's Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-walk, with Old Barley growling in the beam,--that I would not have undone the engagement between her and Herbert for all the money in the pocket-book I had never opened.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as I was out of all fear of being ill-treated under the protection of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late master's apprehensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits re-vive, by the influence of her most august presence.'
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