furniture是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 家具,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:
-- I have remained until now simply because of my devotion to you, and as for danger, I am only afraid that the carpets may be ruined, and the furniture smashed!芒聙娄 You should shut the door on the lot, in my opinion.
-- Only Vera Lebedeff remained hurriedly rearranging the furniture in the rooms.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance By H. G. Wells CONTENTS I The strange Man's Arrival II Mr. Teddy Henfrey's first Impressions III The thousand and one Bottles IV Mr. Cuss interviews the Stranger V The Burglary at the Vicarage VI The Furniture that went mad VII The Unveiling of the Stranger VIII In Transit IX Mr. Thomas Marvel X Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping XI In the "Coach and Horses" XII The invisible Man loses his Temper XIII Mr. Marvel discusses his Resignation XIV At Port Stowe XV The Man who was running XVI In the "Jolly Cricketers" XVII Dr. Kemp's Visitor XVIII The invisible Man sleeps XIX Certain first Principles XX At the House in Great Portland Street XXI In Oxford Street XXII In the Emporium XXIII In Drury Lane XXIV The Plan that failed XXV The Hunting of the invisible Man XXVI The Wicksteed Murder XXVII The Siege of Kemp's House XXVIII The Hunter hunted The Epilogue CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
-- CHAPTER VI THE FURNITURE THAT WENT MAD Now it happened that in the early hours of Whit Monday, before Millie was hunted out for the day, Mr. Hall and Mrs. Hall both rose and went noiselessly down into the cellar.
-- Mr. Hall's compliments and the furniture upstairs was behaving most extraordinary.
-- She was inclined to think the whole business nonsense perhaps they were just moving the furniture about.
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:
-- Beyond him again, Duncan could look into the vault op-posite, which was filled with savages, upturning and rifling the humble furniture of the scout.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to the books and furniture of the schoolhouse, they belonged to the community, excepting Cotton Mather's History of Witchcraft, a New England Almanac, and book of dreams and fortune-telling; in which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless at-tempts to make a copy of verses in honor of the heiress of Van Tassel.
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:
-- It must have been bad for the furniture, but I suppose the hostess took her revenge on the furniture of her friends when, in turn, she visited them.
-- "It's lucky the furniture in the flat is in Amy's name.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER XXIX HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned comfort, than of modern elegance: there sat two ladies at a well-spread breakfast-table.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might al-most have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first con-vey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.
-- The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furni-ture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real el-egance, than the furniture of Rosings.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some little present of furniture too may be acceptable then."
-- When your father and mother moved to Norland, though the furniture of Stanhill was sold, all the china, plate, and linen was saved, and is now left to your mother.
-- He really felt conscientiously vexed on the occasion; for the very exertion to which he had limited the performance of his promise to his father was by this arrangement rendered impracticable. The furniture was all sent around by water.
-- With the size and furniture of the house Mrs. Dashwood was upon the whole well satisfied; for though her former style of life rendered many additions to the latter indispensable, yet to add and improve was a delight to her; and she had at this time ready money enough to supply all that was wanted of greater elegance to the apartments.
-- She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you. There is one remarkably pretty sitting room up stairs; of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with modern furniture it would be delightful.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One could see that the furniture was of that poor, hurriedly patched together quality sold by the instalment houses.
-- There were soft rugs, rich, upholstered chairs and divans, a grand piano, a marble carving of some unknown Venus by some unknown artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but generally sold by the large furniture houses along with everything else which goes to make the "perfectly appointed house."
-- "We are trying to get a new set of furniture for the lodge.
-- In the matter of the arrangement of the furniture she never took the housemaid's opinion.
-- His furniture was being paid for.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.
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