render是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 提供, 报答; 表演, 演奏; 翻译,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We drank all the wine, and Mr. Pumblechook pledged himself over and over again to keep Joseph up to the mark (I don't know what mark), and to render me efficient and constant service (I don't know what service).
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, this is an extremity to which the prince is seldom driven, neither indeed is he willing to put it in execution; nor dare his ministers advise him to an action, which, as it would render them odious to the people, so it would be a great damage to their own estates, which all lie below; for the island is the king's demesne.
-- But it is impossi- 305ble to express his noble resentment at our savage treatment of the Houyhnhnm race; particularly after I had explained the manner and use of castrating horses among us, to hin-der them from propagating their kind, and to render them more servile.
-- So that, sup-posing us to have the gift of reason, he could not see how it were possible to cure that natural antipathy, which ev-ery creature discovered against us; nor consequently how we could tame and render them serviceable.
-- It is justifiable to enter into war against our nearest ally, when one of his towns lies conve-nient for us, or a territory of land, that would render our dominions round and complete.
-- He added, how I had endeavoured to persuade him, that in my own and other countries, the Yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a little more civilized by some tincture of rea-son, which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race, as the Yahoos of their country were to me; that, among other things, I mentioned a custom we had of castrating Houyhnhnms when they were young, in or-der to render them tame; that the operation was easy and safe; that it was no shame to learn wisdom from brutes, as industry is taught by the ant, and building by the swallow 348 Gulliver's Travels(for so I translate the word lyhannh, although it be a much larger fowl); that this invention might be practised upon the younger Yahoos here, which besides rendering them tractable and fitter for use, would in an age put an end to the whole species, without destroying life; that in the mean time the Houyhnhnms should be exhorted to cultivate the breed of asses, which, as they are in all respects more valu-able brutes, so they have this advantage, to be fit for service at five years old, which the others are not till twelve.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
-- This is an unseasonable hour, but here is a young woman who has been making statements which render my visit necessary.
-- Nobody was ever on any account to give anybody anything, or render anybody help without purchase.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In order to render the descent less difficult, Hans took his way down the interior of the cone in rather a zigzag fashion, making, as the sailors say, long tracks to the eastward, followed by equally long ones to the west.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I did so, that I might endeavour to render you and your family some service.
-- To the extent of anything that our House can do we are in a retired, old-fashioned, steady way of business, sir we shall be happy to render you our best assistance.
-- 'Mr Flintwinch will be happy to render you any service, and I hope your stay in this city may prove agreeable.'
-- How, in the beginning of the labour described by this new verb, and to render which the more expressive Mr Pancks shut his eyes in pronouncing it and shook his hair over them, he had alternated from sudden lights and hopes to sudden darkness and no hopes, and back again, and back again.
-- 'I cannot, therefore, put a price upon services which it is a pleasure to me to render if I can render them spontaneously, but which I could not render in mere return for any consideration.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But even the satisfaction of talking with a distant connec-tion of the British nobility did not render Amy forgetful of time, and when the proper number of minutes had passed, she reluctantly tore herself from this aristocratic society, and looked about for Jo, fervently hoping that her incorri-gible sister would not be found in any position which should bring disgrace upon the name of March.
-- The teaching would render her independent, and such leisure as she got might be made profitable by writing, while the new scenes and society would be both useful and agreeable.
-- For the touch of grief will render My wild nature more serene, Give to life new aspirations, A new trust in the unseen.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I've no idea of sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, you I mean, landlord, you, sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render yourself liable to a criminal prosecution."
-- But though for some time past a number of these whales, not less than 13,000, have been annually slain on the nor' west coast by the Americans alone; yet there are considerations which render even this circumstance of little or no account as an opposing argument in this matter.
-- As in the hurricane that sweeps the plain, men fly the neighborhood of some lone, gigantic elm, whose very height and strength but render it so much the more unsafe, because so much the more a mark for thunderbolts; so at those last words of Ahab's many of the mariners did run from him in a terror of dismay.
-- But to render this acuteness at all successful in the end, the wind and the sea must be the whaleman's allies; for of what present avail to the becalmed or windbound mariner is the skill that assures him he is exactly ninety-three leagues and a quarter from his port?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Wives, again, put on weeds for their husbands, as if, so far from grieving in the garb of sorrow, they had made up their minds to render it as becoming and attractive as possible.
-- The gentleman's notice was very soon attracted; for he had not walked three paces, when he turned angrily round, and inquired what that young cur was howling for, and why Mr. Bumble did not favour him with something which would render the series of vocular exclamations so designated, an involuntary process?
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