father是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 父亲; 创始人, 发明者; (Father) 神父,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:
-- Tell me, is my father living?
-- "My poor child, there is but a faint hope; but with the help of almighty Heaven it is just possible you may one day see your father once more."
-- As soon as they grew calmer they asked a complete string of questions, and Lady Helena recounted the whole story of the document, telling them that their father had been wrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and that he and two sailors, the sole survivors, appeared to have reached the shore, and had written an appeal for help in three languages and committed it to the care of the waves.
-- She had long given up all hope of the BRITANNIA, and was fully persuaded that her father was dead.
-- His generous enthusiasm so touched his auditors that, involuntarily, they rose to their feet and grasped his hands, while Robert exclaimed as he devoured the map with his eyes:"Yes, my father is there!"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So it came to pass that one Michaelmas this Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked companions, stole down upon the farm and carried off the maiden, her father and brothers being from home, as he well knew.
-- 'In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too am-bitious a task.
-- The second brother, who died young, is the father of this lad Henry.
-- Her father refused to have anything to do with her because she had married without his consent, and perhaps for one or two other reasons as well.
-- 'There is nothing in common between my father and me,' she said.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to my forefa-thers, they have always been a poor lot; my own father was a sublieutenant in the army.
-- 'However, it's true enough that my father died a month ago, and that here am I returning from Pskoff, a month after, with hardly a boot to my foot.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.
-- "Oh, dear," said Carrie, with whom the sufferings of Father Goriot were still keen.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He says: 'Yo' ole father doan' know yit what he's a-gwyne to do.
-- I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what HE is.
-- A bed; and bedclothes; and a look'n'-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard.
-- He said his father laid mighty sick once, and some of them catched a bird, and his old granny said his father would die, and he did.
-- Then I told her my father and mother was dead, and the law had bound me out to a mean old farmer in the country thirty mile back from the river, and he treated me so bad I couldn't stand it no lon-ger; he went away to be gone a couple of days, and so I took my chance and stole some of his daughter's old clothes and cleared out, and I had been three nights coming the thirty miles.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was wrong of me to disobey Father and to run away from home.
-- When he came to himself, he began to cry and shriek at the top of his lungs, stamping his feet on the ground and wailing all the while: "The Talking Cricket was right!If I had not run away from home and if Father were here now, I should not be dying of hunger.
-- With the very first pennies I make, I'll buy Father a new cloth coat.
-- "Thanks!Are your father and mother still living?"
-- "Your poor father would suffer terribly if I were to use you as firewood.
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