dinner是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 正餐, 宴会,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He stuffed his books, his notes, a shabby suit, his inadequate linen, and his one glory, the dinner clothes, into his unwieldy imitation-leather bag.
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:
-- I lay down for a nap after dinner and what do you think: though Katerina Ivanovna had quarrelled to the last degree with our landlady Amalia Fyodorovna only a week before, she could not resist then asking her in to coffee.
-- An author had eaten his dinner and would not pay; 'I'll write a satire on you,' says he.
-- My landlady is a good- hearted woman, but she is so exasperated at my having lost my lessons, and not paying her for the last four months, that she does not even send up my dinner 芒聙娄 and I don't under-stand this I O U at all.
-- 'Rodya,' she said, getting up, 'we shall have dinner togeth-er, of course.
-- 'But surely you will have dinner together?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Nobody's dinner is paid forhere, in that name.'
-- 'David,' said Mr. Murdstone, one day after dinner when I wasgoing to leave the room as usual; 'I am sorry to observe that youare of a sullen disposition.'
-- I know thatif a shilling were given me by Mr. Quinion at any time, I spent it ina dinner or a tea.
-- On the first Sunday after he was taken there, I was to go and seehim, and have dinner with him.
-- All this time, Iwas deeply anxious to know what she was going to do with me;but she took her dinner in profound silence, except when sheoccasion- ally fixed her eyes on me sitting opposite, and said,'Mercy upon us!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In general their evenings were less engaged with friends than their mornings; but one complete dinner engagement, and out of the house too, there was no avoiding, though at Christmas.
-- 'Well,' said she to herself, 'this is most strange! After I had got him off so well, to chuse to go into company, and leave Harriet ill behind! Most strange indeed! But there is, I believe, in many men, especially single men, such an inclination such a passion for dining out a dinner en-gagement is so high in the class of their pleasures, their employments, their dignities, almost their duties, that any thing gives way to it and this must be the case with Mr. Elton; a most valuable, amiable, pleasing young man un-doubtedly, and very much in love with Harriet; but still, he cannot refuse an invitation, he must dine out wherever he is asked.
-- The charming Augusta Hawkins, in addition to all the 220 Emmausual advantages of perfect beauty and merit, was in pos-session of an independent fortune, of so many thousands as would always be called ten; a point of some dignity, as well as some convenience: the story told well; he had not thrown himself away he had gained a woman of 10,000 l. or thereabouts; and he had gained her with such delightful rapidity the first hour of introduction had been so very soon followed by distinguishing notice; the history which he had to give Mrs. Cole of the rise and progress of the af-fair was so glorious the steps so quick, from the accidental rencontre, to the dinner at Mr. Green's, and the party at Mrs. Brown's smiles and blushes rising in importance with consciousness and agitation richly scattered the lady had been so easily impressed so sweetly disposed had in short, to use a most intelligible phrase, been so very ready to have him, that vanity and prudence were equally con-tented.
-- 'Upon the whole, she was very persuadable; and it being briefly settled among themselves how it might be done without neglecting his comfort how certainly Mrs. Goddard, if not Mrs. Bates, might be depend-ed on for bearing him company Mr. Woodhouse was to be talked into an acquiescence of his daughter's going out to dinner on a day now near at hand, and spending the whole evening away from him.
-- 256 EmmaChapter VIIIFrank Churchill came back again; and if he kept his father's dinner waiting, it was not known at Hartfield; for Mrs. Weston was too anxious for his being a favourite with Mr. Woodhouse, to betray any imperfection which could be concealed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- Dinner being over, Bathsheba, for want of a better companion, had asked Liddy to come and sit with her.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every one came down in dressing-gown and slippers, and the conversation usually turned on anything that had happened the evening before; comments on the dress or appearance of the dinner contingent were exchanged in friendly confidence.
-- And, as in a school, as in the world itself, there was among the eighteen men and women who met round the dinner table a poor creature, despised by all the others, condemned to be the butt of all their jokes.
-- After dinner the two widows went together up to Mme.
-- Soup, boiled beef, and a dish of vegetables had been, and always would be, the dinner he liked best, so Mme.
-- While they were at dinner that evening, Mme.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Frequently elderly aunts and uncles came to Sunday dinner and remained until they wereburied years later.
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