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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Children of Captain GrantINTRODUCTION TO VOLUME FOURTHE three books gathered under the title "In Search of the Castaways" occupied much of Verne's attention during the three years following 1865.
-- "In Search of the Castaways," which has also been published as "The Children of Captain Grant" and as "A Voyage Around the World," is perhaps most interesting in connection with the last of these titles.
-- mentioned, and that most likely is the captain of the shipwrecked vessel."
-- The captain examined the document carefully, and said:"Well, here's the date of the occurrence first: 7 Juni means June 7; and if we put that before the figures 62 we have in the other document, it gives us the exact date, 7th of June, 1862."
-- "Then I suppose it is about a captain and two sailors," said Lady Helena.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish ... to visit Madame Terentieff, the widow of Captain Terentieff, my old subordinate and friend.
-- 'I was captain then.
-- He came to me himself and began telling me about some Captain Eropegoff.
-- What have I to do with Captain Eropegoff?
-- All I did was to express my opinion that probably Captain Eropegoff never existed at all!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Agamemnon answered, 'Sir, all that you have said is true, but this fellow must needs become our lord and mas-ter: he must be lord of all, king of all, and captain of all, and this shall hardly be.
-- Of these brave Protesilaus had been captain while he was yet alive, but he was now lying under the earth.
-- He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephe-nor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were fall-ing around him, in haste to strip him of his armour.
-- He that hurled it was Peirous, son of Imbrasus, captain of the Thracians, who had come from Aenus; the bones and both the tendons were crushed by the pitiless stone.
-- Thus the two corpses lay stretched on earth near to one another, the one captain of the Thracians and the other of the Epeans; and many another fell round them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Constans, who was 'seen by the captain to jump into the gig,'* luck-ily for us and unluckily for himself did not reach us.
-- The silly ass who owns her, he's captain too, named Davies, he's lost his certificate, or something.
-- He told me casually that the captain was three-parts drunk in his own cabin.
-- Does the captain think he is going to sell them somewhere in the South Seas?'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They agreed to get to- gether and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home.
-- Every-body was talking about the murder, but the captain broke in and says: 'Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge.
-- Then the captain sung out: 'Stand away!'
-- 'I'm the captain and the owner and the mate and the pilot and watchman and head deck-hand; and some- times I'm the freight and passengers.
-- Then here comes the ferryboat; so I shoved for the mid-dle of the river on a long down-stream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck for Miss Hooker's remainders, because the captain would know her uncle Hornback would want them; and then pretty soon the ferryboat give it up and went for the shore, and I laid into my work and went a-booming down the river.
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