peg是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 桩v. (汇率) 钉住,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:
-- I did ill to take my bow down from its peg on the day I led my band of Trojans to Ilius in Hector's service, and if ever I get home again to set eyes on my native place, my wife, and the greatness of my house, may some one cut my head off then and there if I do not break the bow and set it on a hot fire such pranks as it plays me.'
-- They took the mule-yoke from the peg on which it hung, a yoke of box-wood with a knob on the top of it and rings for the reins to go through.
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:
-- He saw her roll down her sleeves and remove her apron the apron hung on a peg behind the door and take the bottle of oxalic acid and go with it into the bedroom.
-- In England and France he was the square peg in the round hole, but here the holes were any sort of shape, and no sort of peg was quite amiss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Peggotty uttered no cry, and shed no tear, and moved no more,until he seemed to wake again, all at once, and pulled down hisrough coat from its peg in a corner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why should a grandson and grandfather peg away at each other with mutual wiolence when all might be bliss and concord.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'At the end of two yards,' she said, putting in a peg to mark the distance, 'I shall give you your directions have another biscuit?'
-- At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know.
-- At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said, 'Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing turn out your toes as you walk and remember who you are!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mammy's old sunbonnet, faded but clean, hung on its peg on the back porch and Scarlett put it on her head,remembering, as from another world, the bonnet with the curling green plume which Rhett had brought her from Paris.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If my dog leth thith young man thtir a peg on foot, I give him leave to go.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her brother and sister were aware of it, and attained a sort of station by making a peg of it on which to air the miserably ragged old fiction of the family gentility.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If Stubb even, who is but a peg higher than Flask, happens to have but a small appetite, and soon shows symptoms of concluding his repast, then Flask must bestir himself, he will not get more than three mouthfuls that day; for it is against holy usage for Stubb to precede Flask to the deck.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'll take you down a peg before I get done with you.
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