oil是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 油, 石油v. 给…加润滑油; 涂油, 上油,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:
-- 'Don't drop that oil upon the blankets, now.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having purchased a few small articles of grocery, and a measure of oil for the lamp, Miss Pross bethought her-self of the wine they wanted.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil lamp.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would have done well with oil stock.
-- John Edtooth, the Oklahoma oil magnate, has decided to found a university that for plant and endowment and individuality will beat anything that's ever been pulled off in education--biggest gymnasium in the world, with an ex-New York Giant for baseball coach!We thought maybe we might work you in on the bacteriology or the physiology--I guess you could manage to teach that, too, if you boned up on it.
-- Gustaf Sondelius shouted, in high places and low, that most diseases could be and must be wiped out; that tuberculosis, cancer, typhoid, the plague, influenza, were an invading army against which the world must mobilize--literally; that public health authorities must supersede generals and oil kings.
-- The clinic reception-room, focused on a vast stone fireplace, was like the drawing-room of an oil magnate, but it was not a place of leisure.
-- There were the cooing ladies' husbands-- college graduates, manipulators of oil stocks or of corporation law--who sat ready to give to anybody who desired it their opinion that while antitoxins might be racy, what we really needed was a good substitute for rubber.
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:
-- He wore a full coat and a horribly greasy black satin waistcoat, with no cravat, and his whole face seemed smeared with oil like an iron lock.
-- There, too, the heat was stifling and there was a sickening smell of fresh paint and stale oil from the newly decorated rooms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A crazy oldstaircase I found it to be, feebly lighted on each landing by a club-headed little oil wick, dying away in a little dungeon of dirty glass.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You expect in such places as these to find the weather-house whence a Capuchin issues on wet days; you look to find the execrable engravings which spoil your appetite, framed every one in a black varnished frame, with a gilt beading round it; you know the sort of tortoise-shell clock-case, inlaid with brass; the green stove, the Argand lamps, covered with oil and dust, have met your eyes before.
-- He was always obliging, always in good spirits; if anything went wrong with one of the locks, he would soon unscrew it, take it to pieces, file it, oil and clean and set it in order, and put it back in its 莽卢卢 7 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 place again; "I am an old hand at it," he used to say.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now,Puss, tell me true, do you understand his folderol about books and poetry and music and oil paintings and suchfoolishness?"
-- Look at the way they go tearing up toNew York and Boston to hear operas and see oil paintings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere.
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:
-- The man laid his gun against a tree, took oil his coat, and threw it beside it.
-- And to convert into oil was as yet too costly and too elaborate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Though indeed,' she hurried on, 'nothing else is to be expected and why should it be expected and if it's not to be expected why should it be, and I am far from blaming you or any one, When your mama and my papa worried us to death and severed the golden bowl I mean bond but I dare say you know what I mean and if you don't you don't lose much and care just as little I will venture to add when they severed the golden bond that bound us and threw us into fits of crying on the sofa nearly choked at least myself everything was changed and in giving my hand to Mr F. I know I did so with my eyes open but he was so very unsettled and in such low spirits that he had distractedly alluded to the river if not oil of something from the chemist's and I did it for the best.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oh, he was a little man who looked as if he merely lived to oil his hair.
-- From fire to oil was a natural transition for burned fin-gers, and Amy fell to painting with undiminished ardor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say, they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly burn their lengths in spermaceti candles.
-- Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty!Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale!Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal!Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness!Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor!Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation!Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!"
-- Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.
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