captain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 首领， 队长； 船长； 上尉v. 做…的首领， 指挥，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- August 19, 17 Yesterday the stranger said to me, 'You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and un-paralleled misfortunes.
-- Why, that requires not this preparation; ye need not have come thus far and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat merely to prove yourselves cowards.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Butler I'm sick of the name.
-- And she could see people and many lights and hear music and view for herself the lovelylaces and frocks and frills that the famous Captain Butler had run through the blockade on his last trip.
-- It Was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had come fromCharleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butlerhad run the blockade.
-- Scarlett tiptoed above the crowd and saw the captain of the militia mounting the orchestraplatform.
-- "Why, you you mustbe the famous Captain Butler we've been hearing so much about the blockade runner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was first put into my head by his seeing a shoot that had come up in the night, and saying, "What, Captain Tom?
-- It was an odd sensation to see his very familiar face established quite at home in that very unfamiliar room and region; and I found myself looking at him, much as I looked at the corner-cupboard with the glass and china, the shells upon the chimney-piece, and the colored engravings on the wall, representing the death of Captain Cook, a ship-launch, and his Majesty King George the Third in a state coachman's wig, leather-breeches, and top-boots, on the terrace at Windsor.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this the robber ran back as fast as 26 Grimms' Fairy Taleshe could to his comrades, and told the captain how a hor-rid witch had got into the house, and had spat at him and scratched his face with her long bony fingers; how a man with a knife in his hand had hidden himself behind the door, and stabbed him in the leg; how a black monster stood in the yard and struck him with a club, and how the devil had sat upon the top of the house and cried out, 'Throw the ras-cal up here!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON.
-- Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended 11by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swal-low, Captain Abraham Pannel, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts.
-- After three years expectation that things would mend, I accept-ed an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
-- The rest of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary: neither could I possibly have preserved them in so long a voyage, if the captain had not allowed me some of his best biscuit, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water, was their constant food.
-- I took leave of my wife, and boy and girl, with tears on both sides, and went on board the Adventure, a merchant ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, captain John Nicholas, of Liverpool, commander.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was, therefore, in constant communication with, at all events the letters of, Sir Humphry Davy, Captain Franklin, and other great men.
-- We followed, and were very politely introduced by the captain to a small cabin with two standing bed places, neither very well ventilated nor very comfortable.
-- replied Captain Bjarne; "we shall leave the Sound, going free with all sails set."
-- On the eighth day, the captain made out Myganness, the westernmost of the isles, and from that moment headed direct for Portland, a cape on the southern shores of the singular island for which we were bound.
-- I bore it very well, but my uncle to his great annoyance, and even shame, was remarkably seasick!This mal de mer troubled him the more that it prevented him from questioning Captain Bjarne as to the subject of Sneffels, as to the means of communication, and the facilities of transport.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is how you found us staring at the Nile, and the Pyramids, and the Sphinxes, and the Desert, and all the rest of it; and this is how Tattycoram will be a greater traveller in course of time than Captain Cook.'
-- Jeremiah, the captain deserts the ship, but you and I will sink or float with it.'
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
-- Plornish, going up this yard alone and leaving his Principal outside, found a gentleman with tight drab legs, a rather old hat, a little hooked stick, and a blue neckerchief (Captain Maroon of Gloucestershire, a private friend of Captain Barbary); who happened to be there, in a friendly way, to mention these little circumstances concerning the remarkably fine grey gelding to any real judge of a horse and quick snapper-up of a good thing, who might look in at that address as per advertisement.
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