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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes I went and climbed the mountain and stood there in the midst of the tall pines, all alone in the terrible silence, with our little village in the distance, and the sky so blue, and the sun so bright, and an old ruined castle on the mountain-side, far away.
-- Your great philosophical idea of a grand life in a prison and your four happy years in that Swiss village are like this, rather,' said Aglaya.
-- They were the children of the village in which I lived, and they went to the school there all of them.
-- 'When the old woman took to her bed finally, the other old women in the village sat with her by turns, as the cus-tom is there; and then Marie was quite driven out of the house.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Mr. Henfrey to himself, trudging down the village through the thawing snow; "a man must do a clock at times, sure-ly."
-- Communication with the world beyond the village he had none.
-- It was inevitable that a person of so remarkable an appearance and bearing should form a frequent topic in such a village as Iping.
-- All through April and May he coveted an opportunity of talking to the stranger, and at last, towards Whitsuntide, he could stand it no longer, but hit upon the subscription-list for a village nurse as an excuse.
-- Cuss went straight up the village to Bunting the vicar.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I clambered up the narrow cleft in the rock and came out upon the sulphur on the westward side of the village of the Beast Men.
-- He hardly met the finest type of mankind in that seafaring village of Spanish mongrels.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the jackal Tabaqui, the Dish-licker and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about mak-ing mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
-- All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked.
-- Mowgli walked on, for he was feeling hungry, and when he came to the village gate he saw the big thorn-bush that was drawn up before the gate at twilight, pushed to one side.
-- The man stared, and ran back up the one street of the village shouting for the priest, who was a big, fat man dressed in white, with a red and yellow mark on his forehead.
-- For three months after that night Mowgli hardly ever left the village gate, he was so busy learning the ways and customs of men.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
-- * The scene of the foregoing incidents is on the spot where the village of Ballston now stands; one of the two principal watering places of America.
-- 'Your father himself could tell you, that, though absent from your presence, I have not been altogether forgetful of your safety,' returned the young man; 'the mastery of yon-der village of huts,' pointing to the neighboring entrenched camp, 'has been keenly disputed; and he who holds it is sure to be possessed of this fort, and that which it contains.
-- In short, the whole village or town, whichever it might be termed, possessed more of method and neatness of exe-cution, than the white men had been accustomed to believe belonged, ordinarily, to the Indian habits.
-- Indeed, so very inferior were they in the two latter particu-lars to the village Duncan had just seen, that he began to expect a second surprise, no less astonishing that the for-mer.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
-- He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire.
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:
-- Up the mountain were wild-orange trees, and now and then Ata would go with two or three women from the village and return laden with the green, sweet, luscious fruit.
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