parlor是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 客厅, 休息室, <美>店,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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fain would I pause to dwell upon the world of charms that burst upon the enraptured gaze of my hero, as he en-tered the state parlor of Van Tassel's mansion.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nekhludoff mounted the stairs, and through the spacious and magnificent parlor he entered the dining-room.
-- Nekhludoff tore himself loose, and, without bowing or saying anything, gloomily passed through the reception-room, the parlor and by the lackeys, who sprang to their feet in the ante-chamber, to the street.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I passed along, and the parlor door was open; but I see there warn't nobody in there but the re- mainders of Peter; so I shoved on by; but the front door was locked, and the key wasn't there.
-- I run in the parlor and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin.
-- When I got down stairs in the morning the parlor was shut up, and the watchers was gone.
-- Towards the middle of the day the undertaker come with his man, and they set the coffin in the middle of the room on a couple of chairs, and then set all our chairs in rows, and borrowed more from the neighbors till the hall and the parlor and the dining-room was full.
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