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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This venerable edifice, so marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid the ruins made by the Reformation; and it was there, beneath its lofty arches, in the grand nave, in the presence of an immense crowd, and surrounded by tombs as thickly set as in a cemetery, that they all assembled to implore the blessing of Heaven on their expedition, and to put themselves under the protection of Providence.
-- Ten people could easily find room in it, and though the walls might be none too water-tight in the rainy season, at this time of the year, at any rate, it was sufficient protection against the intense cold, which, according to the thermometer, was ten degrees below zero.
-- However, this disposition of foliage was certainly to be regretted, for the journey through the forest was often long and painful, as the traveler had no protection whatever against the sun's fierce rays.
-- The tent was not protection enough, and the whole party had to take refuge in the wagon.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I then descended to the courts of justice; over which the judges, those venerable sages and interpreters of the law, pre-sided, for determining the disputed rights and properties of men, as well as for the punishment of vice and protection of innocence.
-- I therefore often begged his honour to let me go among the herds of Yahoos in the neighbourhood; to which he always very graciously consented, being perfectly convinced that the hatred I bore these brutes would never suffer me to be corrupted by them; and his honour ordered one of his ser-vants, a strong sorrel nag, very honest and good-natured, to be my guard; without whose protection I durst not un-dertake such adventures.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I wish I could have made a better acknowledgment, sir, of your kindness to a poor forlorn girl who had no claim upon you, and of your protection of her.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some overhanging rocks afforded us a slight protection from the torrents.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From that time the protection that her wondering eyes had expressed towards him, became embodied in action, and the Child of the Marshalsea took upon herself a new relation towards the Father.
-- There was a ruined uncle in the family group ruined by his brother, the Father of the Marshalsea, and knowing no more how than his ruiner did, but accepting the fact as an inevitable certainty on whom her protection devolved.
-- Little Dorrit was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as the only person between whom and himself there were ties of innocent reliance on one hand, and affectionate protection on the other; ties of compassion, respect, unselfish interest, gratitude, and pity.
-- Even the best friend I have in the world, our excellent friend over yonder,' said Doyce, nodding towards Twickenham, 'extends a sort of protection to me, don't you know, as a man not quite able to take care of himself?'
-- In this belief, to be sure, they had long been carefully trained by the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings, who were always proclaiming to them, officially, that no country which failed to submit itself to those two large families could possibly hope to be under the protection of Providence; and who, when they believed it, disparaged them in private as the most prejudiced people under the sun.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Laurence came hurrying back with Beth, bringing every comfort the kind old gentleman could think of for the invalid, and friendliest promises of protection for the girls during the mother's absence, which comforted her very much.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand, backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be subjected to.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He only cried bitterly all day; and, when the long, dismal night came on, spread his little hands before his eyes to shut out the darkness, and crouching in the corner, tried to sleep: ever and anon waking with a start and tremble, and drawing himself closer and closer to the wall, as if to feel even its cold hard surface were a protection in the gloom and loneliness which surrounded him.
-- And so for from being denied the advantages of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer-time, and there permitted to listen to, and console his mind with, a general supplication of the boys, containing a special clause, therein inserted by authority of the board, in which they entreated to be made good, virtuous, contented, and obedient, and to be guarded from the sins and vices of Oliver Twist: whom the supplication distinctly set forth to be under the exclusive patronage and protection of the powers of wickedness, and an article direct from the manufactory of the very Devil himself.
-- Permit me to inquire the name of the magistrate who offers a gratuitous and unprovoked insult to a respectable person, under the protection of the bench.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their taking her home, and affording her their personal protection and countenance, is such a sacrifice to her advantage as years of gratitude cannot enough ac-knowledge.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This appeared so clear to me now, that nothing was a greater satisfaction to me than that I had not been suffered to do a thing which I now saw so much rea-son to believe would have been no less a sin than that of wilful murder if I had committed it; and I gave most hum-ble thanks on my knees to God, that He had thus delivered me from blood-guiltiness; beseeching Him to grant me the protection of His providence, that I might not fall into the hands of the barbarians, or that I might not lay my hands upon them, unless I had a more clear call from Heaven to do it, in defence of my own life.
-- I would unjustly slander myself if I should say I was not sincerely thank-ful to my great Preserver, to whose singular protection I acknowledged, with great humanity, all these unknown de-liverances were due, and without which I must inevitably have fallen into their merciless hands.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lucy first put an end to it by saying in a lower tone, though Marianne was then giving them the powerful protection of a very magnificent concerto "I will honestly tell you of one scheme which has lately come into my head, for bringing matters to bear; indeed I am bound to let you into the secret, for you are a party concerned.
-- "My objection is this; though I think very well of Mrs. Jennings's heart, she is not a woman whose society can afford us pleasure, or whose protection will give us consequence."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- one which read: WANTED.--50 skilled motormen, accustomed to Westinghouse system, to run U.S. mail cars only, in the City of Brooklyn; protection guaranteed.
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