yoke是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 牛轭; 枷锁; 纽带,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:
-- These animals were able to draw both with head and neck, as their yoke was fastened on the nape of the neck, and to this a collar was attached by an iron peg.
-- Their yoke creaked, they breathed heavily, and the muscles of their houghs were stretched as if they would burst.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The old man trembled as he heard, but bade his follow-ers yoke the horses, and they made all haste to do so.
-- The goddess laid her hand on the yoke of his horses and said, 'The son of Tydeus is not such another as his father.
-- The two then went onwards amid the fallen armour and the blood, and came presently to the company of Thra-cian soldiers, who were sleeping, tired out with their day's toil; their goodly armour was lying on the ground beside them all orderly in three rows, and each man had his yoke of horses beside him.
-- Ajax son of Oileus, never for a moment left the side of Ajax, son of Telamon, but as two swart oxen both strain their ut-most at the plough which they are drawing in a fallow field, and the sweat steams upwards from about the roots of their horns nothing but the yoke divides them as they break up the ground till they reach the end of the field even so did the two Ajaxes stand shoulder to shoulder by one another.
-- As he spoke he gave orders to yoke his horses Panic and Rout, while he put on his armour.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won't go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
-- The gun bullocks rolled their cuds, and answered both together: 'The seventh yoke of the first gun of the Big Gun Battery.
-- To put all twenty yoke of us to the big gun as soon as Two Tails trumpets.'
-- We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.'
-- They plunged forward in the mud, and managed some-how to run their yoke on the pole of an ammunition wagon, where it jammed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One longed to throw off that yoke that crushed us, all decent people among us.
-- "There are traditions still extant among the people of Slavs of the true faith suffering under the yoke of the 'unclean sons of Hagar.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I think I should have emphasised his patience with the unsuitable mate, and the compassion which made him unwilling to throw off the yoke that oppressed him.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Tomorrow oh, tomorrow!Tomorrow she would fit the yoke about her neck.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But to renounce that unendurable worldly yoke which men believe to be liberty is not perhaps so painful as you think."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was the paradisal entry into pure, single being, the individual soul taking precedence over love and desire for union, stronger than any pangs of emotion, a lovely state of free proud singleness, which accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oh, my fellow-men, behold of what a traitor in the camp of those great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable!Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!Yes, my compatriots, happily cast him out and sent him forth!For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how he sneaked and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I hurled him out from amongst us: an object for the undying finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar!And now, my friends my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain, and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.
-- "I, too, want a harpoon made; one that a thousand yoke of fiends could not part, Perth; something that will stick in a whale like his own fin-bone.
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