lord是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. (Lord) 上帝, 主; 主人, 长官, 君主, 贵族,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His five brothers and their father stood six feet and over and broad in proportion, but little Gerald, at twenty-one,knew that five feet four and a half inches was as much as the Lord in His wisdom was going to allow him.
-- She heard sounds of moving feet upstairs and thought "May the Lord damn Prissy," before her eyes closed andsomething like sleep descended upon her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Say Lord strike you dead if you don't!"
-- "And that same man, remember," pursued the gentleman, throwing his finger at Mr. Wopsle heavily,--"that same man might be summoned as a juryman upon this very trial, and, having thus deeply committed himself, might return to the bosom of his family and lay his head upon his pillow, after deliberately swearing that he would well and truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!"
-- While I looked about me here, an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk minister of justice asked me if I would like to step in and hear a trial or so: informing me that he could give me a front place for half a crown, whence I should command a full view of the Lord Chief Justice in his wig and robes,--mentioning that awful personage like waxwork, and presently offering him at the reduced price of eighteen-pence.
-- This was horrible, and gave me a sickening idea of London; the more so as the Lord Chief Justice's proprietor wore (from his hat down to his boots and up again to his pocket-handkerchief inclusive) mildewed clothes which had evidently not belonged to him originally, and which I took it into my head he had bought cheap of the executioner.
-- It was a nice little dinner,--seemed to me then a very Lord Mayor's Feast,--and it acquired additional relish from being eaten under those independent circumstances, with no old people by, and with London all around us.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At this thought she was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said, 'Husband, go to the fish and tell him I must be lord of the sun and moon.'
-- said he, 'she wants to be lord of the sun and moon.'
-- 'That is not done quite as you seem to think,' said the wolf; 'you must wait until the Queen comes,' Soon afterwards, the Queen arrived with some food in her beak, and the lord King came too, and they began to feed their young ones.
-- The bear would have liked to go at once, but the wolf held him back by the sleeve, and said: 'No, you must wait un-til the lord and lady Queen have gone away again.'
-- Then she discovered in what state of life the young lord had been born, and next morning complained of her wrongs to her father, and begged him to help her to get rid of her husband, who was nothing else but a tailor.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.
-- Flimnap, the lord high treasurer, attended there like-wise with his white staff; and I observed he often looked on me with a sour countenance, which I would not seem to re-gard, but ate more than usual, in honour to my dear country, as well as to fill the court with admiration.
-- There was a great lord at court, nearly related to the king, and for that reason alone used with respect.
-- This lord Munodi was a person of the first rank, and had been some years governor of Lagado; but, by a cabal of min-isters, was discharged for insufficiency.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'No, by the Lord Harry!Nor I!'
-- 'By the Lord Harry, he'll have enough of it, first and last!He'd open his eyes, that boy would, if he knew how empty of learning my young maw was, at his time of life.'
-- 'By the Lord Harry, I do!'
-- Strange as it always is to consider any assembly in the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of some complacent person, lord or commoner, whom three-fourths of it could, by no human means, raise out of the slough of inanity to their own intellectual level, it was particularly strange, and it was even particularly affecting, to see this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty in the main no competent observer free from bias could doubt, so agitated by such a leader.
-- Not always the same thing, by the Lord Harry!Quite different things.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Only when he was alone with Mrs Bolton did he really feel a lord and a master, and his voice ran on with her al-most as easily and garrulously as her own could run.
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