volunteer是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 自愿(者, 兵) ; 自愿(提供),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:
-- My horse is in tolerable good trim, and I volunteer to accompany Thalcave."
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:
-- But Duncan declined the charge, profess-ing his readiness to serve as a volunteer by the side of the scout.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After having begun as a volunteer at Illinois, under Ulysses Grant, he fought at Paducah, Belmont, Pittsburg Landing, at the siege of Corinth, Port Gibson, Black River, Chattanooga, the Wilderness, on the Potomac, everywhere and valiantly, a soldier worthy of the general who said, "I never count my dead!"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The church lustre was dotted with candles, joyful melodies of volunteer singers with roaring bass and piercing contralto mingled with the chant of the choir.
-- Everything was solemn, joyous and beautiful; the priest in his bright, silver chasuble, dotted with gilt crosses, the deacon, the chanters in holiday surplice of gold and silver, the spruce volunteer singers with oiled hair, the joyous melodies of holiday songs, the ceaseless blessing of the throng by the priests with flower-bedecked tern candles with the constantly repeated exclamations: "Christ has risen!Christ has risen!"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I found him very intelligent on the topics we touched; and before I went home, I was encouraged so far as to volunteer another visit to morrow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He held the respectable office of general spy and informer in the establishment, for which volunteer service he received a present at Christmas, over and above his weekly wage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am off the volunteer list altogether.
-- This oration from a gruff volunteer in the back-ground, not previously suspected of any powers in that way, was received with three loud cheers; and the speaker became a distinguished character for ever afterwards.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lucy, with a demure and settled air, seemed determined to make no contribution to the comfort of the others, and would not say a word; and almost every thing that WAS said, proceeded from Elinor, who was obliged to volunteer all the information about her mother's health, their coming to town, &c. which Edward ought to have inquired about, but never did.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was so experienced and so business-like, however, that he came very near being rude-- failing to remember, as he did, that the individuals he was trying to instruct were volunteer players and not salaried underlings.
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