mayor是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 市长,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:
-- Her husband was once mayor of Gloucester.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It's practically only a step from that to mayor and then to governor of the state, and if I find the career suits me, there's no reason why in ten or twelve years, say in 1918 or 1920, I shouldn't have the honor of representing the great state of Winnemac in Washington, D.
-- While this larger campaign thundered, there was proceeding in Nautilus a smaller and much defter campaign, to re-elect as mayor one Mr. Pugh, Pickerbaugh's loving chief.
-- But so kindly was Mayor Pugh that in the present election he said nothing that could hurt Mr. Jordan's feelings, and in return what could Mr. Jordan do but speak forgivingly about Mr. Pugh to the people in blind-pigs and houses of ill fame?
-- I own a good share of the bank that's lent various handy little sums to Mayor Pugh.
-- Mayor Pugh called him in and chuckled: "Doc, there's been a certain amount of opposition to you, because you're pretty young and not many folks know you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now, if I want to go out into the street or down to thesands, I've only got to call Dick, Joram's youngest 'prentice, andaway I go in my own carriage, like the Lord Mayor of London.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps the bells might strike up "Turn again Swiveller, Lord Mayor of London."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My father-in-law had sent me to the Mayor of the borough, and when I came there I was surprised to see him----" The watch-woman began a long story.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him in profile from the right, the Psychologist from the left.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the peasants made up their minds that they too would fetch some sheep for themselves, a flock apiece, but the mayor said: 'I come first.'
-- The mayor pressed for-ward and said: 'I will go down first, and look about me, and if things promise well I'll call you.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The night before, the worthy Mr. Thompson brought us the most cordial letters of introduction for Baron Trampe, Governor of Iceland, for M. Pictursson, coadjutor to the bishop, and for M. Finsen, mayor of the town of Reykjavik.
-- In the evening we dined with Baron Trampe, in company with the Mayor of Reykjavik, and Doctor Hyaltalin, the great medical man of Iceland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Look,' said he, in his former tone, 'at this gentleman our host, not yet in the prime of life, who in so graceful a way and with such courtly urbanity and modesty presides over us!Manners fit for a crown!Dine with the Lord Mayor of London (if you can get an invitation) and observe the contrast.
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