mankind是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 人类,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Mankind was my business.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Which Farmer-General, carrying an appro-priate cane with a golden apple on the top of it, was now among the company in the outer rooms, much prostrated before by mankind always excepting superior mankind of the blood of Monseigneur, who, his own wife included, looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes, here he's written almost a book on the natural conditions of the laborer in relation to the land," said Katavasov; "I'm not a specialist, but I, as a natural science man, was pleased at his not taking mankind as something outside biological laws; but, on the contrary, seeing his dependence on his surroundings, and in that dependence seeking the laws of his development."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In his second year of internship, when the thrills of fires and floods and murder became as obvious a routine as bookkeeping, when he had seen the strangely few ways in which mankind can contrive to injure themselves and slaughter one another, when it was merely wearing to have to live up to the pretentiousness of being The Doctor, Martin tried to satisfy and perhaps kill his guilty scientific lust by voluntary scrabbling about the hospital laboratory, correlating the blood counts in pernicious anemia.
-- For he doubted all progress of the intellect and the emotions, and he doubted, most of all, the superiority of divine mankind to the cheerful dogs, the infallibly graceful cats, the unmoral and unagitated and irreligious horses, the superbly adventuring seagulls.
-- You realized before he had talked to you for ten minutes that here was one of the few leaders of mankind who could discourse on any branch of knowledge, yet could control practical affairs and drive stumbling mankind on to sane and reasonable ideals.
-- Certainly he who had lived to study the methods of immunizing mankind against disease had little interest in actually using those methods.
-- Beside him stood Max Gottlieb, and in Gottlieb's power he reverently sought to explain that mankind has ever given up eventual greatness because some crisis, some war or election or loyalty to a Messiah which at the moment seemed weighty, has choked the patient search for truth.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of rac-es and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence.
-- Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable.
-- Of course, in that case many of the benefac-tors of mankind who snatched power for themselves instead of inheriting it ought to have been punished at their first steps.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I chiefly wonder what he'll be,when he leaves Doctor Strong's, and what mankind will do tomaintain any place against him.
-- A display of indifference to all the actions andpassions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguishedquality at that time, I think, as I have ob- served it to be consideredsince.
-- She had been undecided, on leaving Dover, whether or no to givethe finishing touch to that renunciation of mankind in which shehad been educated, by marrying a pilot; but she decided againstthat venture.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power, and even the suffering woman threw her idea into figure.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the multitude of mankind knew of my existence, they would do as you do, and arm them-selves for my destruction.
-- I only wonder that at that moment, instead of venting my sensations in exclamations and agony, I did not rush among mankind and perish in the attempt to destroy 171them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A certain dark-complexioned Swab, however, who wouldn't fill, or do anything else that was proposed to him, and whose heart was openly stated (by the boatswain) to be as black as his figure-head, proposed to two other Swabs to get all mankind into difficulties; which was so effectually done (the Swab family having considerable political influence) that it took half the evening to set things right, and then it was only brought about through an honest little grocer with a white hat, black gaiters, and red nose, getting into a clock, with a gridiron, and listening, and coming out, and knocking everybody down from behind with the gridiron whom he couldn't confute with what he had overheard.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I was soon informed, both by con-versation and reading their histories; for, in the course of many ages, they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobil-ity often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion.
-- And indeed I now apprehended that I must absolutely starve, if I did not get to some of my own species; for as to those filthy Yahoos, although there were few greater lovers of mankind 290 Gulliver's Travelsat that time than myself, yet I confess I never saw any sen-sitive being so detestable on all accounts; and the more I came near them the more hateful they grew, while I stayed in that country.
-- In answer to which I assured his honour, 'that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally 317disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profes-sion.'
-- I have perused several books of travels with great delight in my younger days; but having since gone over most parts of the globe, and been able to con-tradict many fabulous accounts from my own observation, it has given me a great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation to see the credulity of mankind so impudently abused.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A flag, floating from the summit of the temple, proclaimed to mankind that it was 'Sleary's Horse-riding' which claimed their suffrages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses.
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