swan是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 天鹅vi. 闲荡, 游荡,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months, and you won't know it again, with a thousand candle-power Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course and in truth it was something very like it in that house.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You may wait a long time for that!That's how it always is with these Schil-leresque noble hearts; till the last moment every goose is a swan with them, till the last moment, they hope for the best and will see nothing wrong, and although they have an inkling of the other side of the picture, yet they won't face the truth till they are forced to; the very thought of it makes them shiver; they thrust the truth away with both hands, until the man they deck out in false colours puts a fool's cap on them with his own hands.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The "Lament" had evidently been Gerald's swan song for hewas frankly hanging onto his companion's arm.
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:
-- "One wants to strut, to be a swan among geese."
-- "Exactly," cried Gudrun, "a swan among geese."
-- I do feel like a swan among geese I can't help it.
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:
-- Why doesn't Swan & Edgar give me ONE fur coat, instead of giving her six.
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