god是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 上帝(小写god泛指所有的“神, 神像” ),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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And listen, my dear boy, I feel sure that God has sent you to Petersburg from Switzerland on purpose for me.
-- God sent you to me!Au revoir!Alex-andra, come with me, my dear.'
-- At last, God calls her to Himself.
-- 'God bless her!God bless her!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your sceptre of the god and your wreath shall profit you nothing.
-- 'Hear me,' he cried, 'O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe.
-- Then the god sent a deadly dart upon the Argives, and the people died thick on one another, for the arrows went everywhither among the wide host of the Achaeans.
-- 'Hear me,' he cried, 'O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla, and rulest Tenedos with thy might.
-- Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I prayed aloud for God to let me die.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
-- The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept.
-- The new elephants strained at their ropes, and squealed and trumpeted from time to time, and he could hear his mother in the camp hut putting his small brother to sleep with an old, old song about the great God Shiv, who once told all the animals what they should eat.
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:
-- 'Your fathers came from the setting sun, crossed the big river*, fought the people of the country, and took the land; and mine came from the red sky of the morning, over the salt lake, and did their work much after the fashion that had been set them by yours; then let God judge the matter be-tween us, and friends spare their words!'
-- 'That I will, and in English that the king needn't beashamed to answer,' returned the hunter, speaking in the language of which he boasted; 'but I see nothing, nor do I hear the sounds of man or beast; 'tis strange that an Indian should understand white sounds better than a man who, his very enemies will own, has no cross in his blood, although he may have lived with the red skins long enough to be sus-pected!Ha!there goes something like the cracking of a dry stick, too now I hear the bushes move yes, yes, there is a trampling that I mistook for the falls and but here they come themselves; God keep them from the Iroquois!'
-- 'A Mingo is a Mingo, and God having made him so, nei-ther the Mohawks nor any other tribe can alter him,' he said, when he had regained his former position.
-- These Mohicans and I will do what man's thoughts can in-vent, to keep such flowers, which, though so sweet, were never made for the wilderness, from harm, and that without hope of any other recompense but such as God always gives to upright dealings.
-- 'When men struggle for the single life God has given them,' said the scout, sternly, 'even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.
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:
-- Personally I think it was rash of Mr. Strickland, in refuting the account which had gained belief of a certain "unpleasantness" between his father and mother, to state that Charles Strickland in a letter written from Paris had described her as "an excellent woman," since Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz was able to print the letter in facsimile, and it appears that the passage referred to ran in fact as follows: God damn my wife.
-- But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
-- I thought of Marsyas, whom the god flayed because he had dared to rival him in song.
-- He was still too weak to paint, and he sat in the studio, silent, occupied with God knows what dreams, or reading.
-- "Thank God I've found you," he said.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- ' he cried with sudden querulousness, 'why, God knows that this one child is the thought and object of my life, and yet he never prospers me no, never!'
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