confer是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 协商; 授予,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:
-- "Monsieur Jacques Paganel," said Lord Glenarvan, after a brief pause, "that would certainly be a grand achievement, and you would confer a great boon on science, but I should not like to allow you to be laboring under a mistake any longer, and I must tell you, therefore, that for the present at least, you must give up the pleasure of a visit to India."
-- "My Lord," returned Michael Patterson, "by accepting it you will confer a favor on poor exiles, who will be only too happy to do the honors of the wilds."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers.
-- Not in the wine-shop did Madame Defarge confer with these ministers, but in the shed of the wood-sawyer, erst a mender of roads.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I will now confer a benefit on him.'
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:
-- He wishes to confer with Munro!Faith, sir, I have much inclination to indulge the man, if it should only be to let him behold the firm countenance we maintain in spite of his numbers and his summons.
-- 'You forget, dear sir, that we confer with an officer, distin-guished alike in Europe and America for his deeds.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Most of them grunted, "The Old Man is erupting again," and forgot him, but one ex-major went out every evening to confer with serious ladies who wore distinguished frocks, who sobbed over "the loss of spiritual and intellectual horse-power through lack of co-ordination," and who went home in limousines.
-- Added to them were no few outsiders, professors and researchers in other institutes, who found it necessary to come and confer about rather undefined matters with Ross McGurk.
-- The ship's surgeon ran up and down, looking disturbed; the captain could be heard growling on the bridge; the first officer hastened up to confer with him and disappeared below again; and there was no one to meet them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You pretend to have bought itfor yourself, but you have really done so to confer a benefit on him.
-- If, on the eve of such a departure, you willaccompany our mutual friend, Mr. Thomas Traddles, to ourpresent abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to theoccasion, you will confer a boon 'On 'One 'Who 'Is 'Ever yours,'WILKINS MICAWBER.'
-- 'In the meantime, confer with Miss Trotwood, or with anyperson with any knowledge of life,' said Mr. Spenlow, adjustinghis cravat with both hands.
-- Mr. Dixon was so well pleasedwith his new name, and appeared to think it so very obliging inMr. Micawber to confer it upon him, that he shook hands with himagain, and laughed rather childishly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'We pursue this aim together,' retorted her grandfather, still looking away and seeming to confer with himself.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They went some paces off, as if it were to confer together, walking side by side, backward and forward, like persons deliberating upon some affair of weight, but often turning their eyes towards me, as it were to watch that I might not escape.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But before I state the subject on which my uncle wished to confer with me, I must say a word about his personal appearance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No one, after that exemplary demolition of him, would have the hardihood to hint that the more the Circumlocution Office did, the less was done, and that the greatest blessing it could confer on an unhappy public would be to do nothing.
-- And here a difficulty arose, which always does arise when two people are specially brought together at a dinner to confer with one another.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My lady,' as her friends called her, sincerely desired to be a genuine lady, and was so at heart, but had yet to learn that money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks.
-- I think of them, but it takes too much time to do them, so I wait for a chance to confer a great favor, and let the small ones slip, but they tell best in the end, I fancy.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then Moy would come and confer with him and there would be the devil to pay.
-- And here he was in this same hotel expecting to confer with him, unquestionably waiting to have a good time with him.
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