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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What qualifications were necessary in those who are to be created new lords: whether the humour of the prince, a sum of money to a court lady, or a design of strengthening a party opposite to the public interest, ever happened to be the motive in those advancements?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I have not,' retorted Mr. Childers, after surveying him from head to foot, 'the honour of knowing you, but if you mean that you can make more money of your time than I can of mine, I should judge from your appearance, that you are about right.'
-- 'Perhaps so,' replied Mr. Bounderby, rattling his money and laughing.
-- 'You're one of the thort, Thquire, that keepth a prethiouth thight of money out of the houthe.
-- THE GREAT MANUFACTURERTime went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made.
-- Otherwise, ma'am, we know out of whose pocket that money comes.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One stipulation, however, was made by the guide--the money was to be paid to him every Saturday night, failing which, his engagement was at an end.
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:
-- Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war; and himself being so safe and patriotic; but, also, spending more money on his country than he'd got.
-- 'Money is a sort of instinct.
-- 'But could you have made money except by plays?'
-- And now it was not money that Michaelis was after.
-- Clifford had never been primarily out for money, though he made it where he could, for money is the seal and stamp of success.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said the jailer, turning his basket upside down to beat the crumbs out, 'I have expended all the money I received; here is the note of it, and that's a thing accomplished.
-- When your lawyers, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange fall ill, and have not scraped money together, they become poor.
-- Even when I wanted any little sum of money for my personal expenses, I could not obtain it without collision and I, too, a man whose character it is to govern!One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably I may say like lovers on a height overhanging the sea.
-- The speaker, with a whimsical good humour upon him all the time, looked over the parapet-wall with the greatest disparagement of Marseilles; and taking up a determined position by putting his hands in his pockets and rattling his money at it, apostrophised it with a short laugh.
-- 'In grasping at money and in driving hard bargains I have begun, and I must speak of such things now, mother some one may have been grievously deceived, injured, ruined.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, 'You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army.
-- Don't you wish we had the money Papa lost when we were little, Jo?
-- I only meant to change the little bottle for a big one, and I gave all my money to get it, and I'm truly trying not to be selfish any more.'
-- The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter.
-- At the Kings' she daily saw all she want-ed, for the children's older sisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball dresses and bou-quets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lav-ished on trifles which would have been so precious to her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
-- Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?
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