man是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 人; 人类(单数, 不加冠词) ; 男人,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As they came to the castle, all was as the fox had said, and at twelve o'clock the young man met the princes go-ing to the bath and gave her the kiss, and she agreed to run away with him, but begged with many tears that he would let her take leave of her father.
-- Then the king was obliged to keep his word, and away went the young man and the princess; and the fox came and said to him, 'We will have all three, the princess, the horse, and the bird.'
-- But the young man refused to do it: so the fox said, 'I will at any rate give you good coun-sel: beware of two things; ransom no one from the gallows, and sit down by the side of no river.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, espe-cially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on 28 Gulliver's Travelsthe ground, and away he ran.
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
-- In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence ren-ders a man incapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.
-- Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom he has received no obligation, and therefore such a man is not fit to live.
-- I seized a large man of war, tied a cable to the prow, and, lifting up the anchors, I stripped myself, put my clothes (together with my coverlet, which I carried under my arm) into the vessel, and, drawing it after me, between wading and swimming arrived at the royal port of Blefuscu, where the people had long expected me: they lent me two guides to direct me to the capital city, which is of the same name.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A man of realities.
-- A man of facts and calculations.
-- A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
-- A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
-- Thomas Gradgrind took no heed of these trivialities of course, but passed on as a practical man ought to pass on, either brushing the noisy insects from his thoughts, or consigning them to the House of Correction.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But my uncle was not a man to be kept waiting; so adjourning therefore all minor questions, I presented myself before him.
-- Like a hungry man snatching at a morsel of bread the Professor seized it.
-- "This man Saknussemm," he continued, "was a very learned man: now as he did not write in the language of his birthplace, he probably, like most learned men of the sixteenth cent ury, wrote in Latin.
-- I was like a man who had received a knock-down blow.
-- Was it possible that I really read the terrible secret, and it had really been accomplished!A man had dared to do--what?
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:
-- A man was like a child with his appetites.
-- But a woman could yield to a man without yielding her inner, free self.
-- A woman could take a man without really giving herself away.
-- Neither was ever in love with a young man unless he and she were verbal-ly very near: that is unless they were profoundly interested, TALKING to one another.
-- The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months...this they had never realized till it happened!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled.
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