call是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 叫, 喊; 打电话vi. 叫; 访问n. 叫; 号召,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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I would not have dwelt so long upon a circumstance that, perhaps, at first sight, may ap-pear not very momentous, if I had not thought it necessary to justify my character, in point of cleanliness, to the world; which, I am told, some of my maligners have been pleased, upon this and other occasions, to call in question.
-- I had, the evening before, drunk plentifully of a most delicious wine called glimigrim, (the Blefuscudians call it flunec, but ours is esteemed the better sort,) which is very diuretic.
-- {2} Although we usually call reward and punishment the two hinges upon which all government turns, yet I could never observe this maxim to be put in practice by any nation except that of Lilliput.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Don't call yourself Sissy.
-- Call yourself Cecilia.'
-- He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
-- What do I call her for it?
-- I call her probably the very worst woman that ever lived in the world, except my drunken grandmother.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Sund, or Sound as we call it, could be discovered beyond the point of Elsinore, crowded with white sails, which, at that distance looked like the wings of seagulls; while to the east could be made out the far-off coast of Sweden.
-- Two days later we were not far from the coast of Scotland, somewhere near what Danish sailors call Peterhead, and then the Valkyrie stretched out direct for the Faroe Islands, between Orkney and Shetland.
-- I afterwards heard, however, that Baron Trampe placed himself entirely at the beck and call of Professor Hardwigg.
-- "I have a great mind to begin my studies with an examination of the geological mysteries of this Mount Seffel--Feisel--what do you call it?"
-- It consists simply of a few houses--not what in England or Germany we should call a hamlet.
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:
-- But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, arid the dried-up, elderly, superlatively cor-rect female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman...who waited at table, had been in the house for forty years.
-- 'Bolshevism, it seems to me,' said Charlie, 'is just a super-lative hatred of the thing they call the bourgeois; and what the bourgeois is, isn't quite defined.
-- This day, however, Clifford wanted to send a message to the keeper, and as the boy was laid up with influenza, some-body always seemed to have influenza at Wragby, Connie said she would call at the cottage.
-- Some of them simply dreads those iron men, as they call them, those machines for hewing the coal, where men always did it before.
-- Ah yes, to be passionate like a Bacchante, like a Baccha-nal fleeing through the woods, to call on Iacchos, the bright phallos that had no independent personality behind it, but was pure god-servant to the woman!The man, the individ-ual, let him not dare intrude.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Call me five-and-thirty years of age.
-- I said, "Mother, that's what I call practical in you, my dear."'
-- So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title.
-- 'Not the man they call the dealer?'
-- I have come back, you see; but don't look so startled I have come back in what I may call a new way.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else,' said Jo, thinking that keep-ing her temper at home was a much harder task than facing a rebel or two down South.
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