vacation是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 假期,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After some men-tal debating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be as well to get all the preliminaries done with, and they could then arrange at their leisure whether he should give her his hand a week or two before Michaelmas Term, or in the little Christmas vacation between it and Hilary.
-- Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall 201Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably fail-ing too, it behoved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare his noble mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a full complement of passengers on board, among them English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California, and several East Indian officers, who were spending their vacation in making the tour of the world.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A week before examinations, when he was trying to spend twenty-four hours a day in making love to her, twenty-four in grinding for examinations, and twenty-four in the bacteriological laboratory, he promised Clif that he would spend that summer vacation with him, working as a waiter in a Canadian hotel.
-- Such was the hour before Christmas vacation when Roscoe Geake rose to glory.
-- He turned emptily to the laboratory for vacation time.
-- He viciously seized his cap (a soggy and doubtful object), sought Clif Clawson, who was spending the vacation in sleeping between poker games at Barney's, and outlined a project of going into town and getting drunk.
-- It was executed so successfully that during vacation it was repeated whenever he thought of the coming torture- wheel of uninspiring work, whenever he realized that it was only Gottlieb and Leora who held him here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In my dread of the end of the vacation and theircoming back, I could not read a boy's name, without inquiring inwhat tone and with what emphasis he would read, 'Take care ofhim.
-- I came down again to my dinner; and even the 758slow comfort of the meal, and the orderly silence of the place-which was bare of guests, the Long Vacation not yet being over-were eloquent on the audacity of Traddles, and his small hopes ofa livelihood for twenty years to come.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Till this year, every long vacation since their marriage had been divided between Hartfield and Donwell Abbey; but all the holidays of this autumn had been given to sea-bathing for the children, and it was therefore many months since they had been seen in a regular way by their Surry connexions, or seen at all by Mr. Woodhouse, who could not be induced to get so far as Lon-don, even for poor Isabella's sake; and who consequently was now most nervously and apprehensively happy in fore-112 Emmastalling this too short visit.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Unconsciously, Eugene had served his apprenticeship before he went back to Angouleme for the long vacation after taking his degrees as bachelor of arts and bachelor of law.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Yes, you can have a vacation from school, but I want you to study a little every day with Beth,' said Mrs. March that evening.
-- 'I never enjoyed housekeep-ing, and I'm going to take a vacation today, and read, write, go visiting, and amuse myself.'
-- The vacation is nearly over, the stints are all done, and we are ever so glad that we didn't dawdle.'
-- 'Do you study in vacation time?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December.
-- "And that vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the thirty-first of December?"
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