convenience是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 便利; 便利的设施,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:
-- Joe went down on his knees for the greater convenience of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and heavy roll of some dark stuff.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hedirected his eyes at me in that sidelong glance again, and he madehis face very lantern-jawed, for the greater convenience ofscraping, as he answered'Oh dear, I am not referring to the Doctor!
-- 'I propose,' said Mr.Micawber, 'Bills- a convenience to the mercantile world, for which,I believe, we are originally indebted to the Jews, who appear to meto have had a devilish deal too much to do with them ever since-because they are negotiable.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As for Isabella, she has been married long enough to see the convenience of putting all the Mr. Westons aside as much as she can.'
-- Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such; but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever want-ed was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oak argued upon the convenience of leaving her in the waggon, just as she lay now, with her flowers and green leaves about her, merely wheeling the vehicle into the coach-house till the morning, but to no purpose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was never allowed a candle to light me to bed, and, as I went upstairs in the dark, with my head tingling,--from Mrs. Joe's thimble having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,--I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the hulks were handy for me.
-- I had never heard Joe read aloud to any greater extent than this monosyllable, and I had observed at church last Sunday, when I accidentally held our Prayer-Book upside down, that it seemed to suit his convenience quite as well as if it had been all right.
-- In this strain of consolation, Herbert informed me the invisible Barley would commune with himself by the day and night together; Often, while it was light, having, at the same time, one eye at a telescope which was fitted on his bed for the convenience of sweeping the river.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the better convenience of beholding him, I lay on my side, so that my face was parallel to his, and he stood but three yards off: however, I have had him since many times in my hand, and therefore cannot be deceived in the descrip-tion.
-- Besides the large box in which I was usually carried, the queen ordered a smaller one to be made for me, of about twelve feet square, and ten high, for the convenience of travelling; because the other was somewhat too large for Glumdalclitch's lap, and cumbersome in the coach; it was made by the same artist, whom I directed in the whole con-trivance.
-- I therefore told the officer, 'that having been shipwrecked on the coast of Balnibarbi, and cast on a rock, I was received up into La-puta, or the flying island (of which he had often heard), and was now endeavouring to get to Japan, whence I might find a convenience of returning to my own country.'
-- I replied 'that England (the dear place of my nativity) was computed to produce three times the quan-tity of food more than its inhabitants are able to consume, as well as liquors extracted from grain, or pressed out of the fruit of certain trees, which made excellent drink, and the same proportion in every other convenience of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Do me the favour to add that I shall be happy to wait on Mrs Clennam, to offer my personal compliments, and to apologise for having occasioned any agitation in this tranquil corner, if it should suit her convenience to endure the presence of a stranger for a few minutes, after he shall have changed his wet clothes and fortified himself with something to eat and drink.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my grati-tude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and ev-ery convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are the straits of Sunda and Malacca.
-- Going to his vice-bench, the carpenter for convenience sake and general reference, now transferringly measured on it the exact length the coffin was to be, and then made the transfer permanent by cutting two notches at its extremities.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is, I believe, too little yielding certainly too little for the convenience of the world.
-- But, perhaps, Mr. Bingley did not take the house so much for the convenience of the neighbourhood as for his own, and we must expect him to keep it or quit it on the same principle.'
-- I wonder he does not marry, to secure a lasting convenience of that kind.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This I not only thought possible, but easy, and pleased myself ex-tremely with the thoughts of making it, and with my having much more convenience for it than any of the negroes or Indians; but not at all considering the particular inconve-niences which I lay under more than the Indians did - viz.
-- I had not kept myself long in this posture till I saw the boat draw near the shore, as if they looked for a creek to thrust in at, for the convenience of landing; however, as they did not come quite far enough, they did not see the little inlet where I formerly landed my rafts, but ran their boat on shore upon the beach, at about half a mile from me, which was very happy for me; for oth-erwise they would have landed just at my door, as I may say, and would soon have beaten me out of my castle, and perhaps have plundered me of all I had.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes," cried he in the same eager tone, "with all and every thing belonging to it; in no one convenience or INconvenience about it, should the least variation be perceptible.
-- Absence might have weakened his regard, and convenience might have determined him to overcome it, but that such a regard had formerly existed she could not bring herself to doubt.
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