senate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 参议院， 上院，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：
-- With many other particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to some, why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the sailing of the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such Grand-Lama-like exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought speechless refuge, as it were, among the marble senate of the dead.
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 like-wise shall be deprived of the honour of an interview with you to-morrow morning by business in the Senate that does not admit of delay, and also that I may not intrude on your family circle while you are meeting your son, and Avdotya Romanovna her brother.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This doctor therefore proposed, 'that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day's debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the na-ture of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, at-tended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, 235palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.'
-- I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.
-- That these ministers, having all employments at their disposal, preserve themselves in power, by bribing the majority of a senate or great council; and at last, by an expedient, called an act of indemnity' (whereof I described the nature to him), 'they secure themselves from after-reckonings, and retire from the public laden with the spoils of the nation.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "So the Senate will correct the mistake."
-- The Senate could hear the case in two weeks, and by that time Nekhludoff intended to be in St. Petersburg, and, in case of an adverse decision, to petition the Emperor, as the lawyer had advised.
-- "Yes, yes; that may be so, but the Senate cannot enter into the merits of the case," said Vladimir Vasilievitch, sternly, glancing at the ashes of his cigar.
-- "The Senate only looks after the proper interpretation and application of the law."
-- He met Fanirin at the entrance to the magnificent Senate building, where several carriages were already waiting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through the rugged remains of temples and tombs and palaces and senate halls and theatres and amphitheatres of ancient days, hosts of tongue-tied and blindfolded moderns were carefully feeling their way, incessantly repeating Prunes and Prism in the endeavour to set their lips according to the received form.
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