telephone是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 电话, 电话机v. 打电话,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He thought of her late in the evenings, and planned to telephone to her, and did not telephone.
-- He informed himself that he was a moron to make this long trip into Zenith twice in one day; he remembered that he was engaged to a girl called Madeline Fox; he worried the matter of unfaithfulness; he asserted that Leora Tozer was merely an imitation nurse who was as illiterate as a kitchen wench and as impertinent as a newsboy; he decided, several times he decided, to telephone her and free himself from the engagement.
-- which was his natural reaction, and explained that he was speaking for Leora's invalid grand-aunt, that the poor old lady was very low, and if the night superintendent cared to take upon himself the murder of a blameless gentlewoman-- When Leora came to the telephone he said quickly, and soberly now, feeling as though he had come from the menace of thronging strangers into the security of her presence: "Leora?
-- Martin was slim but he had pitched hay and strung telephone wire.
-- It was by telephone message from a brusque girl clerk in the president's office that he was informed that "his resignation had been accepted."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Conceive the tale of London which a negro, fresh from Central Africa, would take back to his tribe!What would he know of railway companies, of social movements, of telephone and telegraph wires, of the Parcels Delivery Company, and postal orders and the like?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They ran in the direction of my lodging, and looking back down a street I saw a mass of black smoke streaming up above the roofs and telephone wires.
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:
-- 'Oh dear, oh dear!Then I'll telephone to Sheffield for Dr Carrington, and Dr Lecky may as well run round straight away.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the first drugstore he stopped, seeing a long-distance telephone booth inside.
-- It was a famous drugstore, and contained one of the first private telephone booths ever erected.
-- "Just attending to a little private matter," he answered, his mind working like a key-board of a telephone station.
-- A third policeman joined the other two from somewhere and some one ran to telephone for more officers.
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