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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So Jove, the Olympian Lord of Thunder, hied him to the bed in which he always slept; and when he had got on to it he went to sleep, with Juno of the golden throne by his side.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'We have been like hunters who have lost the points of the heavens, and from whom the sun has been hid for days,' said Hawkeye, turning away from his companions; 'now we begin again to know the signs of our course, and the paths are cleared from briers!Seat yourselves in the shade which the moon throws from yonder beech 'tis thick-er than that of the pines and let us wait for that which the Lord may choose to send next.
-- 'Them careless imps, the Mohawks, with their Tusca-rora and Onondaga brethren, have been here slaking their thirst,' he muttered, 'and the vagabonds have thrown away the gourd!This is the way with benefits, when they are be-stowed on such disremembering hounds!Here has the Lord laid his hand, in the midst of the howling wilderness, for their good, and raised a fountain of water from the bowels of the 'arth, that might laugh at the richest shop of apoth-ecary's ware in all the colonies; and see!the knaves have trodden in the clay, and deformed the cleanliness of the place, as though they were brute beasts, instead of human men.'
-- Revenge is an Indian feeling, and all who know me know that there is no cross in my veins; but this much will I say here, in the face of heaven, and with the power of the Lord so manifest in this howling wilderness that should these Frenchers ever trust themselves again within the range of a ragged bullet, there is one rifle which shall play its part so long as flint will fire or powder burn!I leave the tomahawk and knife to such as have a natural gift to use them.
-- For that matter, though the Oneidas do serve his sacred majesty, who is my sovereign lord and master, I should not have deliberated long about letting off 'killdeer' at the imp myself, had luck thrown him in my way.'
-- The scout shook his head as he rejoined: 'The Lord never intended that the man should place all his endeavors in his throat, to the neglect of other and better gifts!But he has fallen into the hands of some silly woman, when he should have been gathering his education under a blue sky, among the beauties of the forest.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where!
-- He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His wife returned no other reply than the necessary 'Yes, Quilp,' and the small lord of the creation took his first cigar and mixed his first glass of grog.
-- 'Would you care a ha'penny for the Lord Chancellor if you know'd him in private and without his wig? certainly not.'
-- 'Lord bless me,' said the lady of the caravan.
-- Mr Pitt in a nightcap and bedgown, and without his boots, represented the poet Cowper with perfect exactness; and Mary Queen of Scots in a dark wig, white shirt-collar, and male attire, was such a complete image of Lord Byron that the young ladies quite screamed when they saw it.
-- Thus, he was in a condition to relate the exact circumstances of the difference between the Marquis of Mizzler and Lord Bobby, which it appeared originated in a disputed bottle of champagne, and not in a pigeon-pie, as erroneously reported in the newspapers; neither had Lord Bobby said to the Marquis of Mizzler, 'Mizzler, one of us two tells a lie, and I'm not the man,' as incorrectly stated by the same authorities; but 'Mizzler, you know where I'm to be found, and damme, sir, find me if you want me' which, of course, entirely changed the aspect of this interesting question, and placed it in a very different light.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The will of the Lord is expressed in the teachings of Christ.
-- Let man obey Him, and the Kingdom of the Lord will come on earth, and man will derive the greatest possible good.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Old Pew, as had lost his sight, and might have thought shame, spends twelve hundred pound in a year, like a lord in Parliament.
-- If there's any treachery, it'll be on your side, and the Lord help you."
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:
-- "Only," she said, turning to Gerald, "I must say that, however man is lord of the beast and the fowl, I still don't think he has any right to violate the feelings of the inferior creation.
-- She began to quicken her pace, in a moment she would be gone like a dream, when the young grey lord sprang before her, and gave her a light handsome cuff.
-- "You are like Lord Bacon, Gerald," he said.
-- Lord Jesus, was it then bound to be Lord Jesus!He could feel the blow descending, he knew he was murdered.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The Lord help us!'
-- gasped the elder; 'may the Lord deliver us from evil!
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