church是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 教堂； 教会， 教派； (宗教的) 礼拜仪式，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the graveyard stood a stone church with a green cupola where he used to go to mass two or three times a year with his father and mother, when a service was held in memory of his grandmother, who had long been dead, and whom he had never seen.
-- 'She begs you to do us the honour to be in the church to-morrow for the service, and then to be present at the fu-neral lunch.'
-- 'I'll prove to you that your white eyelashes may very well be ascribed to the Church of Ivan the Great's being two hundred and fifty feet high, and I will prove it clearly, exactly, progressively, and even with a Liberal tendency!I undertake to!Will you bet on it?'
-- Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind faces of people he had seen in his child-hood or met somewhere once, whom he would never have recalled, the belfry of the church at V., the billiard table in a restaurant and some officers playing billiards, the smell of cigars in some underground tobacco shop, a tavern room, a back staircase quite dark, all sloppy with dirty water and strewn with egg-shells, and the Sunday bells floating in from somewhere芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We went out to the door; and there wasmy mother, looking unusually pretty, I thought, and with her agentleman with beautiful black hair and whiskers, who hadwalked home with us from church last Sunday.
-- Again, I seeher dark eyes roll round the church when she says 'miserablesinners,' as if she were, calling all the congregation names.
-- To see Steerforth walk to church before us, arm-in-arm with MissCreakle, was one of the great sights of my life.
-- 'But I wouldn't so much as give it another thought,' said Peggotty,cheerily, 'if my Davy was anyways against it- not if I had beenasked in church thirty times three times over, and was wearing outthe ring in my pocket.'
-- In a word, they were married, and had gone into the church for noother purpose.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No intercourse with Harriet possible but by note; no church for her on Sunday any more than on Christmas Day; and no need to find excuses for Mr. Elton's absenting himself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were once lifeholds.
-- Gabriel's features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St. John and the ugliness of Judas Iscariot, as represented in a window of the church he attended, that not a single lineament could be selected and called worthy either of distinction or notoriety.
-- She was brought up by a very heathen father and mother, who never sent her to church or school, and it shows how the sins of the parents are visited upon the children, mem."
-- "Did you notice Mr. Boldwood's doings in church this morning, miss?"
-- ALL SAINTS' AND ALL SOULS'On a week-day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in the mouldy nave of a church called All Saints', in the distant barrack-town before-mentioned, at the end of a service without a sermon.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is an oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot's beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouching figure are in keeping with the room that reeks of misfortune, where hope is reduced to speculate for the meanest stakes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discov-ered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The heartbreak and selflessness that she would have dedicated to the Church were devoted instead to theservice of her child, her household and the man who had taken her out of Savannah and its memories and had neverasked any questions.
-- It would mean leaving the Church!Scarlett thought it over and decided that, in a choicebetween the Church and Ashley, she would choose Ashley.
-- But, oh, it would make such a scandal!Divorced peoplewere under the ban not only of the Church but of society.
-- The Confederate dead and wounded at New Hope Church ran high.
-- New Hope Church was only thirty-five miles from Atlanta!The General had let the Yankees push him backsixty-five miles in three weeks!Why didn't he hold the Yankees instead of everlastingly retreating?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch.
-- When the church came to itself,--for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously.
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