scotch是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 苏格兰,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he got nearer to the carriage he saw beside Stepan Arkadyevitch not the prince but a handsome, stout young man in a Scotch cap, with long ends of ribbon behind.
-- The first to come out was Vassenka Veslovsky, in new high boots that reached half-way up his thick thighs, in a green blouse, with a new Russian leather cartridge-belt, and in his Scotch cap with ribbons, with a brand-new English gun without a sling.
-- Soon he heard the rumble of the trap, and saw from behind the trees how Vassenka, sitting in the hay (unluckily there was no seat in the trap) in his Scotch cap, was driven along the avenue, jolting up and down over the ruts.
-- And who should be in the trap but Vassenka himself, with his Scotch cap, and his songs and his gaiters, and all, sitting in the hay.
-- Beside Anna, on a hot-looking gray cavalry horse, was Vassenka Veslovsky in his Scotch cap with floating ribbons, his stout legs stretched out in front, obviously pleased with his own appearance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last he came upon an elderly, crusty Jew, who sold second-hand articles, and from whom he purchased a dress of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otter-skin pelisse, for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy-five pounds.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scotch heather--honest!Uncle Clif has nabbed off a twenty-five- buck-a-week job WITH commissions, selling autos.
-- Dr. A. DeWitt Tubbs was tremendously whiskered on all visible spots save his nose and temples and the palms of his hands, short but passionately whiskered, like a Scotch terrier.
-- No one heeded a wry Scotch doctor, diligent but undramatic through the epidemic, who hinted that plagues have been known to slacken and cease without phage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What ship comes sailing home from India, and what English ladyis this, married to a growling old Scotch Croesus with great flaps ofears?
-- But Julia keeps no diary in these days; never singsAffection's Dirge; eternally quarrels with the old Scotch Croesus,who is a sort of yellow bear with a tanned hide.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We had scarcely visited the various lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants when the period of our appointment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to travel on.
-- 'I had rather be with you,' he said, 'in your solitary rambles, than with these Scotch people, whom I do not know; hasten, then, my dear friend, to return, that I may again feel myself 198 Frankensteinsomewhat at home, which I cannot do in your absence.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But, in an Orangeman, when a principlecomes up against Scotch tightness, the principle fares ill." The Slatterys were another affair.
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:
-- Connie was accustomed to Kensington or the Scotch hills or the Sussex downs: that was her England.
-- She's not the pilchard sort of little slip of a girl, she's a bonny Scotch trout.'
-- 'Do you mind put-ting a scotch under the wheel?'
-- But, being solid Scotch middle class, she loathed any 'lowering' of oneself or the family.
-- Besides Sir Malcolm and his two daughters, there were seven more people, a Scotch cou-ple, again with two daughters; a young Italian Contessa, a widow; a young Georgian prince, and a youngish English clergyman who had had pneumonia and was being chaplain to Sir Alexander for his health's sake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just as the sisters arrived here, a monotonous boy in a Scotch cap put his head round a beam on the left, and said, 'Less noise there, ladies!'
-- said the boy in the Scotch cap.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He isn't one of the cool, stiff Englishmen, but is rather peppery, for he has Scotch blood in him, as one might guess from his bonnie blue eyes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor.
-- Then, there are the Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah's whale, as depicted in the prints of old Bibles and the cuts of old primers.
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