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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the Captain's call two of the ship's crew came to help us dress in these heavy and impervious clothes, made of india-rubber without seam, and constructed expressly to resist considerable pressure.
-- Soon the nature of the soil changed; to the sandy plain succeeded an extent of slimy mud which the Americans call "ooze," composed of equal parts of silicious and calcareous shells.
-- Happily, about two o'clock, Ned Land brought down a magnificent hog; from the brood of those the natives call "bari-outang."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They come up to me and call me mother.
-- "You couldn't call a race a business concern, could you? and nationality roughly corresponds to race, I think.
-- "And I," said Gerald grimly, "shouldn't like to be in a world of people who acted individually and spontaneously, as you call it.
-- "Here are two leaders " he held out his Daily Telegraph, "full of the ordinary newspaper cant " he scanned the columns down "and then there's this little I dunno what you'd call it, essay, almost appearing with the leaders, and saying there must arise a man who will give new values to things, give us new truths, a new attitude to life, or else we shall be a crumbling nothingness in a few years, a country in ruin ""I suppose that's a bit of newspaper cant, as well," said Birkin.
-- "Don't you think the collier's pianoforte, as you call it, is a symbol for something very real, a real desire for something higher, in the collier's life?"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One stop brought us into the family sitting room, without any introductory lobby or passage: they call it here 'the house' preeminently.
-- I no longer felt inclined to call Heathcliff a capital fellow.
-- One Sunday evening, it chanced that they were banished from the sitting room, for making a noise, or a light offence of the kind; and when I went to call them to supper, I could discover them nowhere.
-- Nobody but I even did him the kindness to call him a dirty boy, and bid him wash himself, once a week; and children of his age seldom have a natural pleasure in soap and water.
-- I gave due inward applause to every object, and then I remembered how old Earnshaw used to come in when all was tidied, and call me a cant lass, and slip a shilling into my hand as a Christmas box; and from that I went on to think of his fondness for Heathcliff, and his dread lest he should suffer neglect after death had removed him: and that naturally led me to consider the poor lad's situation now, and from singing I changed my mind to crying.
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