collar是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 衣领; 环状物,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What need had he for so many whenher darling Ashley rode in the rain with moisture dripping down his collar from the back of his cap?
-- They waved their handkerchiefs and cried gay good-bys to him; butMaybelle, gripping Scarlett's arm, whispered: "Oh, the poor old darling!A real good rainstorm will just about finishhim!His lumbago " Uncle Henry Hamilton marched in the rank behind Grandpa Merriwether, the collar of his long black coat turnedup about his ears, two Mexican War pistols in his belt and a small carpetbag in his hand.
-- If she could only be rid of her tight stays, the collar thatchoked her and the slippers still full of sand and gravel that blistered her feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He held me by the collar and stared at me so, that I began to think his first idea about cutting my throat had revived.
-- As we got more and more into debt, breakfast became a hollower and hollower form, and, being on one occasion at breakfast-time threatened (by letter) with legal proceedings, "not unwholly unconnected," as my local paper might put it, "with jewelery," I went so far as to seize the Avenger by his blue collar and shake him off his feet,--so that he was actually in the air, like a booted Cupid,--for presuming to suppose that we wanted a roll.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You shall become a black poodle and have a gold collar round your neck, and shall eat burning coals, till the flames burst forth from your throat.'
-- And when he had spo-ken these words, the old man was changed into a poodle dog, and had a gold collar round his neck, and the cooks were ordered to bring up some live coals, and these he ate, until the flames broke forth from his throat.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I kneeled down, and they raised a ladder from the ground to my neck; upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a plumb-line from my collar to the floor, which just answered the length of my coat: but my waist and arms I measured myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Likewithe if you wath to thtand a collar for the dog, or a thet of bellth for the horthe, I thould be very glad to take 'em.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fellows with swaying waists fucking little jazz girls with small boy buttocks, like two collar studs!Do you mean that sort of love?
-- They found a rather good-looking woman of forty-odd, in a nurse's uni-form, with a white collar and apron, just making herself tea in a small crowded sitting-room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His wristbands and collar were oppressive; his voice and manner were oppressive.
-- The ferry-boat came over, however, without his receiving any sign, and when it grounded his master took him by the collar and walked him into it.
-- He was neatly attired in a plum-coloured coat, with as large a collar of black velvet as his figure could carry; a silken waistcoat, bedecked with golden sprigs; a chaste neckerchief much in vogue at that day, representing a preserve of lilac pheasants on a buff ground; pantaloons so highly decorated with side-stripes that each leg was a three-stringed lute; and a hat of state very high and hard.
-- It was an affecting illustration of the fallacy of human projects, to behold her lover, with the great hat pulled over his eyes, the velvet collar turned up as if it rained, the plum-coloured coat buttoned to conceal the silken waistcoat of golden sprigs, and the little direction-post pointing inexorably home, creeping along by the worst back-streets, and composing, as he went, the following new inscription for a tombstone in St George's Churchyard:'Here lie the mortal remains Of JOHN CHIVERY, Never anything worth mentioning, Who died about the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, Of a broken heart, Requesting with his last breath that the word AMY might be inscribed over his ashes, which was accordingly directed to be done, By his afflicted Parents.'
-- Issuing forth from the gate on these easy terms, he became a billiard-marker; and now occasionally looked in at the little skittle-ground in a green Newmarket coat (second-hand), with a shining collar and bright buttons (new), and drank the beer of the Collegians.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- returned Jo, giving her collar a twitch and her head a hasty brush.
-- 'I see a young lady who pins her collar straight, laces her boots neatly, and neither whistles, talks slang, nor lies on the rug as she used to do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Dear heart alive!If we had known he would have asked for you, we would have put you a clean collar on, and made you as smart as sixpence!'
-- Mr. Sikes then seized the terrified boy by the collar with very little ceremony; and all three were quickly inside the house.
-- CHAPTER XIX IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den.
-- Sikes had disappeared for an instant; but he was up again, and had him by the collar before the smoke had cleared away.
-- Mr. Bumble instantaneously turned back his collar again; laid his hat and stick upon a chair; and drew another chair up to the table.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I made a collar for this little creature, and with a string, which I made of some rope-yam, which I always carried about me, I led him along, though with some difficulty, till I came to my bower, and there I enclosed him and left him, for I was very impatient to be at home, from whence I had been absent above a month.
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