village是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 村, 村庄,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
-- The practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said, much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously prone.
-- Oak resolved to sleep at Weatherbury that night on his way to Shottsford, and struck out at once into the high road which had been recommended as the direct route to the village in question.
-- He calculated that he had walked a very fair proportion of the journey; and having been on foot since daybreak, he felt tempted to lie down upon the hay in the waggon instead of pushing on to the village of Weatherbury, and having to pay for a lodging.
-- Bathsheba then rode off into the darkness, and the men straggled on to the village in twos and threes Oak and the bailiff being left by the rick alone.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents' house my more than sister the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures.
-- It was completely dark when I arrived in the environs of Geneva; the gates of the town were already shut; and I was obliged to pass the night at Secheron, a village at the distance of half a league from the city.
-- The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the prom-ontory of Belrive and the village of Copet.
-- She then related that, by the permission of Elizabeth, she had passed the evening of the night on which the murder had been committed at the house of an aunt at Chene, a village situated at about a league from Geneva.
-- At length I arrived at the village of Chamounix.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But during the years before Geraldmarried Ellen, the tiny settlement, twenty-five miles north of Tara, slowly grew into a village and the tracks slowlypushed northward.
-- It had becomethe crossroads of travel north and south and east and west, and the little village leaped to life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
-- Neither were my notions of the theological positions to which my Catechism bound me, at all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to "walk in the same all the days of my life," laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwright's or up by the mill.
-- There was a delicious sense of cleaning-up and making a quiet pause before going on in life afresh, in our village on Saturday nights, which stimulated Joe to dare to stay out half an hour longer on Saturdays than at other times.
-- Without having any definite idea of the penalties I had incurred, it was clear to me that village boys could not go stalking about the country, ravaging the houses of gentlefolks and pitching into the studious youth of England, without laying themselves open to severe punishment.
-- He pretended that his Christian name was Dolge,--a clear Impossibility,--but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he went his way, and in the evening came to the village where the two inns were; and in one of these were people singing, and dancing, and feasting; but the other looked very dirty, and poor.
-- He rode on with the princess, till at last he came to the village where he had left his two brothers.
-- In the village I just came from, the squire has had a pig sto-len out of his sty.
-- 30 Grimms' Fairy TalesTHE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN n a village dwelt a poor old woman, who had gathered Itogether a dish of beans and wanted to cook them.
-- 156 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE LITTLE PEASANT here was a certain village wherein no one lived but re-Tally rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Upon the strength of this reasoning, I ventured to address them in the following manner: 'Gentlemen, if you be conjurers, as I have good cause to believe, you can understand my lan-guage; therefore I make bold to let your worships know that I am a poor distressed Englishman, driven by his misfor-tunes upon your coast; and I entreat one of you to let me ride upon his back, as if he were a real horse, to some house or village where I can be relieved.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And I'll give you to know, sir for this my dear boy won't that though his mother kept but a little village shop, he never forgot her, but pensioned me on thirty pound a year more than I want, for I put by out of it only making the condition that I was to keep down in my own part, and make no boasts about him, and not trouble him.
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