money是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 货币, 钱,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nobody knew that she herself possessed forty thousand francs, accumulated _sou by sou_, that was her secret; surely as far as money was concerned she was a very tolerable match.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the mean-time he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
-- Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliv-erer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor 148 Frankensteinto good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.
-- Fortunately I had money with me.
-- I had money with me and gained the friendship of the villagers by distributing it; or I brought with me some food that I had killed, which, after taking a small part, I always presented to those who had provided me with fire and utensils for cooking.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors;but the delicate question of money arose.
-- So, to save the feelings of all and to bring the Troop up tofull strength, Scarlett's father, John Wilkes, Buck Munroe, Jim Tarleton, Hugh Calvert, in fact every large planter inthe County with the one exception of Angus Macintosh, had contributed money to completely outfit the Troop, horseand man.
-- "If I didn't do so much for those trashy Slatterys that they'd have to pay money for elsewhere," fumed Gerald,"they'd be willing to sell me their miserable few acres of swamp bottom, and the County would be well rid of them."
-- He had come hastily, as many a better andworse Irishman before and since, with the clothes he had on his back, two shillings above his passage money and aprice on his head that he felt was larger than his misdeed warranted.
-- But Geraldhad known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not to mention bearers, all the money that could be spared were wanted for my mother.
-- But I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing.
-- There is already lodged in my hands a sum of money amply sufficient for your suitable education and maintenance.
-- He sat astride of the chair when he had pushed the money over, and sat swinging his purse and eyeing Joe.
-- But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the best of friends!--"O dear good Joe, whom I was so ready to leave and so unthankful to, I see you again, with your muscular blacksmith's arm before your eyes, and your broad chest heaving, and your voice dying away.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the people said 'No,' unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty.
-- 'Yes,' said the other, 'mine is a golden trade; a good 15grinder never puts his hand into his pocket without finding money in it but where did you get that beautiful goose?'
-- 'You have thriven well in the world hitherto,' said the grinder, 'now if you could find money in your pocket when-ever you put your hand in it, your fortune would be made.'
-- said Hans; 'I should be the happiest man in the world, if I could have money whenever I put my hand in my pocket: what could I want more?
-- He had not even so much as a cow, and still less money to buy one, and yet he and his wife did so wish to have one.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whoever can there bring suf-ficient proof, that he has strictly observed the laws of his 66 Gulliver's Travelscountry for seventy-three moons, has a claim to certain privileges, according to his quality or condition of life, with a proportionable sum of money out of a fund appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of snilpall, or le-gal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.
-- He represented to the emperor 'the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent.
-- My remaining stock I carried with me, part in money and part in goods, in hopes to improve my fortunes.
-- She had also ob-served how modest I was in my nature, how nicely I regarded my honour, and what an indignity I should conceive it, to be exposed for money as a public spectacle, to the meanest of the people.
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