discount是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 折扣 vt. 不全信, 低估, 漠视,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What is the ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from poor Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone's family from starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Birkin, who knew her well, saw that she intended to discount his existence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On our approaching the house where the MissesSpenlow lived, I was at such a discount in respect of my personallooks and presence of mind, that Traddles proposed a gentlestimulant in the form of a glass of ale.
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