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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I ran away from my father and came to Pskoff to my aunt's house, where I caved in at once with fever, and he went and died while I was away.
-- Aha, brother Senka, you'll have to open your gates and let me in, my boy!I know he told tales about me to my father I know that well enough but I cer-tainly did rile my father about Nastasia Philipovna that's very sure, and that was my own doing.'
-- I was a month or two with Lihachof after his father died, your excellency, and while he was knocking about he's in the debtor's prison now I was with him, and he couldn't do a thing without Lebedeff; and I got to know Nastasia Philipovna and several people at that time.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let me then advise my mother and she must herself know that it will be better to make friends with my dear father Jove, lest he again scold her and disturb our feast.
-- I tell you, therefore and it shall surely be that if I again catch you talking such nonsense, I will either forfeit my own head and be no more called father of Telemachus, or I will take you, strip you stark naked, and whip you out of the assem-bly till you go blubbering back to the ships.'
-- Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I had among them ten more such councillors, for the city of King Priam would then soon fall beneath our hands, and we should sack it.
-- 'Father Jove,' he cried, 'that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things, Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, wit-ness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.
-- Menelaus next took aim, praying to Father Jove as he did so.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one af-ter the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
-- 'Enter, then, and look,' said Father Wolf stiffly, 'but there is no food here.'
-- It pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look uncomfortable.
-- Father Wolf began angrily 'By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning.
-- snapped Father Wolf.
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 was brought among us, as I have heard, by some strange accident in which your father was interested, and in which the savage was rigidly dealt by; but I forget the idle tale, it is enough, that he is now our friend.'
-- The instant the father seconded this intimation by an ex-pressive gesture of the hand, Uncas threw himself on the ground, and approached the animal with wary movements.
-- They found a strong resemblance between father and son, with the difference that might be expected from age and hardships.
-- Ask yourself, Heyward, can daughters forget the anx-iety a father must endure, whose children lodge he knows not where or how, in such a wilderness, and in the midst of so many perils?'
-- When the triumphant shout of Uncas was borne to his ears, the grati- fied father raised his voice in a single responsive cry, after which his busy piece alone proved that he still guarded his pass with unwearied diligence.
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:
-- Personally I think it was rash of Mr. Strickland, in refuting the account which had gained belief of a certain "unpleasantness" between his father and mother, to state that Charles Strickland in a letter written from Paris had described her as "an excellent woman," since Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz was able to print the letter in facsimile, and it appears that the passage referred to ran in fact as follows: God damn my wife.
-- I had the presence of mind to say that their father had been called away on business."
-- "I rather wanted to be a painter when I was a boy, but my father made me go into business because he said there was no money in art.
-- His father was a carpenter, and they dwelt in a little old red-brick house, neat and clean, by the side of a sluggish canal.
-- 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.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This intrepid fellow was a Negro born on the engineer's estate, of a slave father and mother, but to whom Cyrus, who was an Abolitionist from conviction and heart, had long since given his freedom.
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