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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
-- At first the passengers were much frightened, but Captain Anderson hastened to reassure them.
-- Captain Anderson went down immediately into the hold.
-- Captain Anderson ordered the engines to be stopped at once, and one of the men went down to ascertain the extent of the injury.
-- But we will go whether or no; we have got a captain who is pretty wide-awake."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The waiters from on board ran out to the boat-house with baskets, the captain lounged on the little bridge.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the meantime, the captain gradually brightened up at his own music, and at last flapped his hand upon the table before him in a way we all knew to mean silence.
-- The captain glared at him for a while, flapped his hand again, glared still harder, and at last broke out with a villainous, low oath, "Silence, there, between decks!"
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