duke是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 公爵， 君主； 手，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He also acquainted them with the precise amount of the income guaranteed by the Duke of Thigsberry to Violetta Stetta of the Italian Opera, which it appeared was payable quarterly, and not half-yearly, as the public had been given to understand, and which was exclusive, and not inclusive (as had been monstrously stated,) of jewellery, perfumery, hair-powder for five footmen, and two daily changes of kid-gloves for a page.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not new to violent death I have served his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and got a wound myself at Fontenoy but I know my pulse went dot and carry one.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You cannot be ignorant that your king, Louis XIV, thinking that the gesture of a potentate was sufficient to bring the Pyrenees under his yoke, had imposed the Duke of Anjou, his grandson, on the Spaniards.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
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：
-- As she rose on to the high country, she could see on her left, on a height above the rolling land, the shadowy, pow-erful bulk of Warsop Castle, dark grey, with below it the reddish plastering of miners' dwellings, newish, and be-low those the plumes of dark smoke and white steam from the great colliery which put so many thousand pounds per annum into the pockets of the Duke and the other share-holders.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Duke of De-vonshire lives near.
-- I often see his footmen lounging at the back gate, and the Duke of Wellington's house is not far off.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What are the Duke of Dunder's hereditary towns and hamlets but Fast-Fish?
-- "But the duke had nothing to do with taking this fish?"
-- "Is the Duke so very poor as to be forced to this desperate mode of getting a livelihood?"
-- "Won't the Duke be content with a quarter or a half?"
-- In a word, the whale was seized and sold, and his Grace the Duke of Wellington received the money.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My great-grandfather, eldest son of the Duke of Bridgewater, fled to this country about the end of the last century, to breathe the pure air of free- dom; married here, and died, leaving a son, his own father dying about the same time.
-- The second son of the late duke seized the titles and estates the infant real duke was ignored.
-- I am the lineal descendant of that infant I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companion- ship of felons on a raft!'
-- Then the duke says: 'You are what?'
-- But the duke kind of soured on him, and didn't look a bit satisfied with the way things was going; still, the king acted real friendly towards him, and said the duke's great-grandfather and all the other Dukes of Bilgewater was a good deal thought of by HIS father, and was allowed to come to the palace consider-able; but the duke stayed huffy a good while, till by and by the king says: 'Like as not we got to be together a blamed long time on this h-yer raft, Bilgewater, and so what's the use o' your bein' sour?
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