slavery是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 奴隶制度; 苦役,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:
-- He passed two long years of painful slavery among them, but always cherished in his heart the hope of one day regaining his freedom, and watching for the slightest opportunity that might turn up, though he knew that his flight would be attended with innumerable dangers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You impose actual slavery upon us!"
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other un-wholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favourite employment.
-- Or (so my fond fancy imaged) some accident might meanwhile occur to destroy him and put an end to my slavery forever.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was much about the South andSoutherners that he would never comprehend; but, with the wholeheartedness that was his nature, he adopted its ideasand customs, as he understood them, for his own poker and horse racing, red-hot politics and the code duello, States'Rights and damnation to all Yankees, slavery and King Cotton, contempt for white trash and exaggerated courtesy towomen.
-- and sometimes 'Cotton, Slavery and States'Rights!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had got on so fast of late, that I had even started a boy in boots,--top boots,--in bondage and slavery to whom I might have been said to pass my days.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without oh, weariness!heaviness!Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command! when I think of all this; only half-suspected, not so keenly known to me before and how for forty years I have fed upon dry salted fare fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soil! when the poorest landsman has had fresh fruit to his daily hand, and broken the world's fresh bread to my mouldy crusts away, whole oceans away, from that young girl-wife I wedded past fifty, and sailed for Cape Horn the next day, leaving but one dent in my marriage pillow wife?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
-- CHAPTER II - SLAVERY AND ESCAPETHAT evil influence which carried me first away from my father's house - which hurried me into the wild and indi-gested notion of raising my fortune, and that impressed those conceits so forcibly upon me as to make me deaf to all good advice, and to the entreaties and even the commands of my father - I say, the same influence, whatever it was, pre-sented the most unfortunate of all enterprises to my view; and I went on board a vessel bound to the coast of Africa; or, as our sailors vulgarly called it, a voyage to Guinea.
-- They asked me what I was, in Portuguese, and in Span-ish, and in French, but I understood none of them; but at last a Scotch sailor, who was on board, called to me: and I answered him, and told him I was an Englishman, that I had made my escape out of slavery from the Moors, at Sal-lee; they then bade me come on board, and very kindly took me in, and all my goods.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell ev-ery time, but dasn't answer, be- cause he didn't want nobody to pick HIM up and take him into slavery again.
-- And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; be- cause as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.
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