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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then said Captain Maroon, 'Now, how much time do you want to make the other twenty in?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Having taken the pirate captain prisoner, sailed slap over the schooner, whose decks were piled high with dead and whose lee scuppers ran blood, for the order had been 'Cutlasses, and die hard!'
-- 'Geese, young ladies,' returns Uncle, in a tone that keeps us quiet till Flo settles down to enjoy the FLIRTATIONS OF CAPTAIN CAVENDISH, and I have the scenery all to myself.
-- I pray he may, and try to be all he believes me, for I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY, Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833.
-- The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.
-- At last, after much dodging search, he finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo; and as he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin, all the sailors for the moment desist from hoisting in the goods, to mark the stranger's evil eye.
-- cries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making out his papers for the Customs 'Who's there?'
-- Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah, though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble had been despatched to make various preliminary inquiries, with the view of finding out some captain or other who wanted a cabin-boy without any friends; and was returning to the workhouse to communicate the result of his mission; when he encountered at the gate, no less a person than Mr. Sowerberry, the parochial undertaker.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Catherine was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.
-- 'Mamma,' cried Lydia, 'my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson's as they did when they first came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke's library.'
-- 'If we make haste,' said Lydia, as they walked along, 'per-haps we may see something of Captain Carter before he goes.'
-- 'Oh!yes it would be much better to wait till Jane was well, and by that time most likely Captain Carter would be at Meryton again.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This captain taking a fancy to my conversation, which was not at all disagreeable at that time, hearing me say I had a mind to see the world, told me if I would go the voyage with him I should be at no expense; I should be his messmate and his companion; and if I could carry anything with me, I should have all the advantage of it that the trade would ad-mit; and perhaps I might meet with some encouragement.
-- The usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first Iapprehended; nor was I carried up the country to the em-peror's court, as the rest of our men were, but was kept by the captain of the rover as his proper prize, and made his slave, being young and nimble, and fit for his business.
-- It was an inexpressible joy to me, which any one will be-lieve, that I was thus delivered, as I esteemed it, from such a miserable and almost hopeless condition as I was in; and I immediately offered all I had to the captain of the ship, as a return for my deliverance; but he generously told me he would take nothing from me, but that all I had should be delivered safe to me when I came to the Brazils.
-- He offered me also sixty pieces of eight more for my boy Xury, which I was loth to take; not that I was unwilling to let the captain have him, but I was very loth to sell the poor boy's liber-ty, who had assisted me so faithfully in procuring my own.
-- However, when I let him know my reason, he owned it to be just, and offered me this medium, that he would give the boy an obligation to set him free in ten years, if he turned Christian: upon this, and Xury saying he was willing to go to him, I let the captain have him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain looked in recognition, but there was no especial greeting.
-- Step out of the line," and seizing one by the shoulder, the captain marched him off a little way and stood him up alone.
-- There was the captain curtly pleading as before.
-- He was now first, and already the captain was talking for him.
-- "Huh!there's a lot back there yet," said a man farther up, leaning out and looking back at the applicants for whom the captain was pleading.
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