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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We call it hydro-phobia, but they call it dewanee the madness and run.
-- 'His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,' said Mother Wolf quietly.
-- O thou Mowgli for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee the time will come when thou wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee.'
-- By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name.
-- So I do not call ye my broth-ers any more, but sag [dogs], as a man should.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Happily, I may say that I utter nothing but the thoughts and the wishes of the King of Israel himself; for though the times may call for some slight changes, yet does this ver-sion which we use in the colonies of New England so much exceed all other versions, that, by its richness, its exactness, and its spiritual simplicity, it approacheth, as near as may be, to the great work of the inspired writer.
-- 'I know not what you call my bass,' said Heyward, piqued at her remark, 'but I know that your safety, and that of Cora, is far dearer to me than could be any orchestra of Handel's music.'
-- It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of tell-ing them in their villages, where the lie can be given to the face of a cowardly boaster, and the brave soldier can call on his comrades to witness for the truth of his words.
-- They call this up-stream current the tide, which is a thing soon explained, and clear enough.
-- 'The thieves are outlying for scalps and plunder,' said the white man, whom we shall call Hawkeye, after the manner of his companions.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, he thought, how soon he 'd turn his back upon the old schoolhouse; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!
-- Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no ac-quaintance left to call upon.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
-- Finally it occurred to me that I would call as though nothing had happened, and send a message in by the maid asking Mrs. Strickland if it was convenient for her to see me.
-- But I was overwhelmed with embarrassment when I said to the maid the phrase I had prepared, and while I waited for the answer in a dark passage I had to call up all my strength of mind not to bolt.
-- You rejoice in your freedom, and you feel that at last you can call your soul your own.
-- They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was still what sailors call "a close-reefed topsail breeze," but the commotion in the elements had none the less considerably diminished.
-- "Well, let us call again," and all uniting their voices, they gave a vigorous shout, but there came no reply.
-- "Well, my boy," said he to Herbert, "if I don't know the name of these trees, at any rate I reckon that we may call them 'burning wood,' and just now that's the chief thing we want."
-- Suddenly a loud trumpet call resounded through the forest.
-- "Now," said Herbert, pointing to the other extremity of the island, "let us call this gulf which is so singularly like a pair of open jaws, Shark Gulf."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There's a friend of mine waiting outside, and as it seems that I may have to wait some time, I'll call him in, with your leave.'
-- The jolly old grandfather unto this, retorts, not only that he declines to fork out with that cheerful readiness which is always so agreeable and pleasant in a gentleman of his time of life, but that he will bow up, and call names, and make reflections whenever they meet.
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