youngster是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 小伙子, 年轻人; 少年, 儿童,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The boy, normal village youngster though he was, given to stoning cats and to playing pom-pom- pullaway, gained something of the intoxication of treasure-hunting as the Doc struggled to convey his vision of the pride of learning, the universality of biology, the triumphant exactness of chemistry.
-- He saw Leora, always an "odd child," doing obediently enough the flat household tasks but keeping snug the belief that some day she would find a youngster with whom, in whatever danger or poverty, she would behold all the colored world.
-- As a youngster he had a fight or two with ruffling subalterns; once he spent a week in jail; often he was infuriated by discriminations against Jews: and at forty he went sadly off to the America which could never become militaristic or anti-Semitic--to the Hoagland Laboratory in Brooklyn, then to Queen City University as professor of bacteriology.
-- He chose as his assistant Dr. Rufus Ockford, a lively youngster recommended by Dean Silva of Winnemac.
-- But Martin was at once a scholar who made osmotic pressure determinations almost interesting, a taut swift man whom she could fancy running or making love, and a lonely youngster who naively believed that here in her soft security she was still the girl who had sat with him by the lagoon, still the courageous woman who had come to him in a drunken room at Blackwater.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were close upon our heels; every man for himself, and each from the gallows!We parted company, and left the youngster lying in a ditch.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An Assamese driver, two or three elephants ahead, turned round angrily, crying: 'Bring up Kala Nag, and knock this youngster of mine into good behavior.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A youngster who, but a few years ago, believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the Gospel, has now set himself at the head of the university; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of countenance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A youngster like that laughs at sea-sickness.
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