German是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 德国的 n. 德国人,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:
-- What did all this portend, and what portended the swift hoisting-up of Monsieur Gabelle behind a servant on horseback, and the conveying away of the said Gabelle (double-laden though the horse was), at a gallop, like a new version of the German ballad of Leonora?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was Friday, and in the dining room the German watchmaker was winding up the clock.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.
-- He told his German valet, who ran up to him from the second class, to take his things and go on, and he himself went up to her.
-- Only, those German quacks are mischievous....
-- Chapter 30 In the little German watering-place to which the Shtcherbatskys had betaken themselves, as in all places indeed where people are gathered together, the usual process, as it were, of the crystallization of society went on, assigning to each member of that society a definite and unalterable place.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was believed that he was the son of a German prince, that he had immense wealth, that he lived as sparsely as the other professors only because he was doing terrifying and costly experiments which probably had something to do with human sacrifice.
-- He looked up, spoke with a hint of German accent.
-- At supper--the thirty piratical Digams sitting at a long and spotty table, devouring clam chowder and beans and codfish balls and banana layer-cake--the Freshmen earnestly repeated after a senior: On old Olympus' topmost top A fat-eared German viewed a hop.
-- His voice flowed indolently, with German vowels and blurred W's: "This, gentlemen, iss a twenty-four-hour culture of Bacillus anthracis.
-- He would know more than a German Jew who loves Father Nietzsche and Father Schopenhauer (but damn him, he was teleological-minded!)
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And yet when a drunken man who, for some unknown reason, was being taken somewhere in a huge waggon dragged by a heavy dray horse, suddenly shouted at him as he drove past: 'Hey there, German hatter' bawling at the top of his voice and pointing at him the young man stopped suddenly and clutched tremulously at his hat.
-- He knew that the flat had been occupied by a German clerk in the civil service, and his family.
-- This German was moving out then, and so the fourth floor on this staircase would be untenanted except by the old woman.
-- The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands that was all.
-- No, Dounia was not that sort when I knew her and 芒聙娄 she is still the same, of course!Yes, there's no denying, the Svid-riga脙炉lovs are a bitter pill!It's a bitter thing to spend one's life a governess in the provinces for two hundred roubles, but I know she would rather be a nigger on a plantation or a Lett with a German master than degrade her soul, and her mor-al dignity, by binding herself for ever to a man whom she does not respect and with whom she has nothing in com-mon for her own advantage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Poor Traddles!In a tight sky-blue suit that made his arms and legslike German sausages, or roly-poly puddings, he was the merriestand most miserable of all the boys.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The _morganatic_ couple (to use a convenient German expression which 莽卢卢29 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 has no exact equivalent) had reached the door, when the Count interrupted himself in his talk with Eugene.
-- "Didn't the second daughter marry a banker with a German name?"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And ordering French and German books by the crate fromthe Yankees!And there they sit reading and dreaming the dear God knows what, when they'd be better spending theirtime hunting and playing poker as proper men should."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jacob was a pioneer in the study of German philology, and although Wilhelm's work was hampered by poor health the brothers collaborated in the creation of a German diction-ary, not completed until a century after their deaths.
-- Although their intention was to pre-serve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with schol-arly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the acme of German luxury-parsley soup, a ham omelette with sorrel trimmings, an oyster of veal stewed with prunes, delicious fruit, and sparkling Moselle.
-- In a few moments, however, my thoughts were far away, back in my German home, with Gretchen and the old cook.
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