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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain came half round, and regarded him with the dull and solemn eyes of a drunken man.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My battery captain called me a Pachydermatous Anachronism the oth-er day.'
-- Mule, horse, elephant, or bull-ock, he obeys his driver, and the driver his sergeant, and the sergeant his lieutenant, and the lieutenant his captain, and the captain his major, and the major his colonel, and the colonel his brigadier commanding three regiments, and the brigadier the general, who obeys the Viceroy, who is the ser-vant of the Empress.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old chief at Horican, your father, was the great captain of our war-party.
-- The politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts of ill-judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
-- The vestments of the stranger announced him to be one who held a responsible situation near the person of the captain of the Canadas; and who, as it would now seem, finding his errand of peace frustrated by the fierce impetu-osity of his allies, was content to become a silent and sad spectator of the fruits of a contest that he had arrived too late to anticipate.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His father was a spare old man, his hands gnarled after the work of a lifetime, silent and upright; in the evening he read the paper aloud, while his wife and daughter (now married to the captain of a fishing smack), unwilling to lose a moment, bent over their sewing.
-- Chapter XLVIHAD not been in Tahiti long before I met Captain Nichols.
-- I came to know Captain Nichols very well before I left Tahiti, and I am the richer for his acquaintance.
-- I do not know why Captain Nichols first left England.
-- Of such was Captain Nichols.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the most distinguished was Captain Cyrus Harding.
-- And hundreds of times Captain Harding had almost been among those who were not counted by the terrible Grant; but in these combats where he never spared himself, fortune favored him till the moment when he was wounded and taken prisoner on the field of battle near Richmond.
-- In the meanwhile Captain Harding was rejoined by a servant who was devoted to him in life and in death.
-- Captain Harding had listened to the sailor without saying a word, but his eyes shone with satisfaction.
-- "This evening, at ten o'clock," replied Captain Harding; "and Heaven grant that the storm does not abate before our departure.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The servant with a handkerchief around one eye said that the captain was in, and showed Nekhludoff into the small reception-room, in which was a lounge, a table and a lamp, one side of the rose-colored shade of which was scorched, standing on a knitted woolen napkin.
-- "It is fortunate that the captain is a kind-hearted man, and does not enforce the rules.
-- The captain had resigned, and another man, who was very strict, had taken his place.
-- said a tall, stout, red-faced captain of the convoy, incessantly smoking a cigarette and blowing the smoke through the moustache which covered his mouth.
-- shouted the captain to the crowding convicts.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though I was so terrified by the idea of the seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of the captain himself than anybody else who knew him.
-- If ever he mentioned it, the captain blew through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared, and stared my poor father out of the room.
-- All the time he lived with us the captain made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker.
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