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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Will you come upstairs, Dr. Watson, and in-spect my collection of Lepidoptera?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a collection of needles and pins, from a foot to half a yard long; four wasp stings, like joiner's tacks; some combings of the queen's hair; a gold ring, which one day she made me a present of, in a most obliging manner, taking it from her little finger, and throwing it over my head like a collar.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was, in fact, fighting against an insurmountable difficulty; my brain was almost on fire; my eyes were strained with staring at the parchment; the whole absurd collection of letters appeared to dance before my vision in a number of black little groups.
-- cried my uncle; "it appears to me a collection of useless odd volumes, and a beggarly amount of empty shelves."
-- My uncle, on the other hand, was quite as devoted to his arsenal as to his collection of instruments, and above all was very careful with his provision of fulminating or gun cotton, warranted to keep in any climate, and of which the expansive force was known to be greater than that of ordinary gunpowder.
-- To make up the exact list of our traveling gear--for the guidance of future travelers--add, that we carried a medicine and surgical chest with all apparatus necessary for wounds, fractures and blows; lint, scissors, lancets--in fact, a perfect collection of horrible looking instruments; a number of vials containing ammonia, alcohol, ether, Goulard water, aromatic vinegar, in fact, every possible and impossible drug--finally, all the materials for working the Ruhmkorff coil!
-- As a true nephew of the great Professor Hardwigg, and despite my preoccupation and doleful fears of what was to come, I observed with great interest the vast collection of mineralogical curiosities spread out before me in this vast museum of natural history.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why, I'd as soon have a spit put through me, and be stuck upon a card in a collection of beetles, as lead the life I have been leading here.'
-- It was of massive stone darkened by ages, built in a wild fancy which came from the East to that collection of wild fancies; and Little Dorrit was little indeed, leaning on the broad-cushioned ledge, and looking over.
-- The whole body of travellers seemed to be a collection of voluntary human sacrifices, bound hand and foot, and delivered over to Mr Eustace and his attendants, to have the entrails of their intellects arranged according to the taste of that sacred priesthood.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In old Harris's collection of voyages there are some plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671, entitled "A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship Jonas in the Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master."
-- It was a collection of furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works were in full operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a collection of mere hovels: some, hastily built with loose bricks: others, of old worm-eaten ship-timber: jumbled together without any attempt at order or arrangement, and planted, for the most part, within a few feet of the river's bank.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or plea-sure.
-- 'And I wish my collection were larger for your benefit and my own credit; but I am an idle fellow, and though I have not many, I have more than I ever looked into.'
-- 'I am astonished,' said Miss Bingley, 'that my father should have left so small a collection of books.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I began first, and told him my whole history, which he heard with an attention even to amazement - and particularly at the wonderful manner of my being furnished with provisions and ammunition; and, indeed, as my story is a whole collection of wonders, it af-fected him deeply.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You are very right in supposing how my money would be spent some of it, at least my loose cash would certainly be employed in improving my collection of music and books."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He received a mixed collection without progression or pairs.
-- Here she had a comfortable back room, looking over a collection of back yards in which grew a number of shade trees pleasant to see.
-- Gentlemen with fortunes did not hesitate to note, as an addition to their own amiable collection of virtues, that they had their horses and carriages.
-- To this collection Hurstwood came up from the west out of Seventh Avenue and stopped close to the door, nearer than all the others.
-- There was a face in the thick of the collection which was as white as drained veal.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then somebody sings out, 'Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!'
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