collection是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 收藏(品) , 收集(物),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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not only that; but the village, light-headed with famine, fire, and bell-ringing, and bethinking itself that Monsieur Gabelle had to do with the collection of rent and taxes though it was but a small instalment of taxes, and no rent at all, that Gabelle had got in those latter days became impatient for an interview with him, and, surrounding his house, summoned him to come forth for personal confer-ence.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then they were told that there was to be a collection for a pious object in church; well, they pulled out their halfpence and gave them, but what for they couldn't say."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After a drive of two hours through the country, Aouda and Mr. Fogg returned to the town, which is a vast collection of heavy-looking, irregular houses, surrounded by charming gardens rich in tropical fruits and plants; and at ten o'clock they re-embarked, closely followed by the detective, who had kept them constantly in sight.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every night when Fatty retired he had to remove from his bed a collection of objects which thoughtful house-mates had stuffed between the sheets--soap, alarm clocks, fish.
-- As one, the Digams suggested, "Say, if you don't like the way we study medicine, we'll be tickled to death to take up a collection and send you back to Elk Mills, where you won't be disturbed by all us lowbrows and commercialists.
-- "Why not take up a collection to send her off to some big hospital where she can be treated, or where they can keep her if she can't be cured?"
-- So!I haf only one suggestion: when you get stuck in a problem, I have a fine collection of detective stories in my office.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My father had left a small collection of books in a littleroom upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) andwhich nobody else in our house ever troubled.
-- observed Miss Mowcher, standing at the chairagain, and replacing in the bag a miscellaneous collection of littleobjects she had emptied out of it.
-- My boots might be placed in any collection ofinstruments of torture.
-- But, as toreading them after I had got them, I might as well have copied theChinese inscriptions on an immense collection of tea-chests, or thegolden characters on all the great red and green bottles in thechemists' shops!
-- There was another letter from him in the same paper,touching a bridge; there was an advertisement of a collection ofsimilar letters by him, to be shortly republished, in a neat volume,'with considerable additions'; and, unless I am very muchmistaken, the Leading Article was his also.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hear you have a charming collection of new ribbons from town.
-- She was immediately up, and want-ing to quit the table; but so many were also moving, that she could not get away; and Mr. Knightley thought he saw an-other collection of letters anxiously pushed towards her, and resolutely swept away by her unexamined.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a locked closet was now discovered an extraordinary collection of articles.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A collection of dim- ribbed glass decanters, metal discs with a satin sheen on them, and piles of blue-edged earthenware plates of Touraine ware cover the sticky surfaces of the sideboards that line the room.
-- For some this spring is play, or the stock-exchange, or music, or a collection of pictures or insects; for others it is some woman who can give them the dainties they like.
-- His position was not unlike that of some visitor permitted as a favor to inspect a private collection of curiosities, when by inadvertence he comes into collision with a glass case full of sculptured figures, and three or four heads, imperfectly secured, fall at the shock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whereas I now found Barnard to be a disembodied spirit, or a fiction, and his inn the dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in a rank corner as a club for Tom-cats.
-- It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement.
-- The interval between that time and supper Wemmick devoted to showing me his collection of curiosities.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But they were best (and universally) known for the collection of over two hundred folk tales they made from oral sources and published in two volumes of 'Nursery and Household Tales' in 1812 and 1814.
-- Although their intention was to pre-serve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with schol-arly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I opened it in his own pres-ence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made in the country from which I had been so strangely delivered.
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