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:
-- The room had been fashioned into a small museum, and the walls were lined by a number of glass-topped cases full of that collection of butterflies and moths the formation of which had been the relaxation of this complex and danger-ous man.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though Rogojin had declared that he left Pskoff secretly, a large collection of friends had assembled to greet him, and did so with profuse waving of hats and shouting.
-- 'There is a whole collection of men come all tipsy and want to see you.
-- Everyone can understand that a collection of such strange young men would attract the at-tention of a person interested in contemporary life.
-- Tears stood in his eyes, and yet his speech was nothing but a collection of disconnected sen-tences, without beginning and without end a string of unexpected words and unexpected sentiments colliding with one another, and jumping over one another, as they burst from his lips.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I turned down one of the roads leading from Gower Street to Tottenham Court Road, and found myself outside Omniums, the big establishment where everything is to be bought you know the place: meat, grocery, linen, furniture, clothing, oil paintings even a huge meandering collection of shops rather than a shop.
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:
-- The advance, with Heyward at its head, had already reached the defile, and was slowly disappearing, when the attention of Cora was drawn to a collection of stragglers by the sounds of contention.
-- In a collection of so serious savages, there is never to be found any impatient aspirant after premature distinction, standing ready to move his auditors to some hasty, and, perhaps, injudicious discussion, in order that his own repu-tation may be the gainer.
-- Just within the inner edge of the circle stood a soldier, in the military attire of a strange nation; and without it was his warhorse, in the center of a collection of mounted do-mestics, seemingly in readiness to undertake some distant journey.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The collection was easily made.
-- When, afterwards, Pencroft asked the use of this collection of herbs, "For medicine," replied the lad, "to treat us when we are ill." "Why should we be ill, since there are no doctors in the island?"
-- There was no reply to be made to that, but the lad went on with his collection all the same, and it was well received at Granite House.
-- The storeroom was provided with them, and in special baskets Neb placed his collection of rhizomes, stone-pine almonds, etc.
-- Several excursions were made into the Jacamar Wood and the forests of the Far West, and they brought back from thence a large collection of wild vegetables, spinach, cress, radishes, and turnips, which careful culture would soon improve, and which would temper the regimen on which the settlers had till then subsisted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
-- There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.
-- Giving the child an encouraging look, intended to reassure her and let her know, that, although she stood in the presence of the original Jarley, she must not allow herself to be utterly overwhelmed and borne down, the lady of the caravan unfolded another scroll, whereon was the inscription, 'One hundred figures the full size of life,' and then another scroll, on which was written, 'The only stupendous collection of real wax-work in the world,' and then several smaller scrolls with such inscriptions as 'Now exhibiting within' 'The genuine and only Jarley' 'Jarley's unrivalled collection' 'Jarley is the delight of the Nobility and Gentry' 'The Royal Family are the patrons of Jarley.'
-- How could such a collection be here, where you see everything except the inside of one little cupboard and a few boxes?
-- As the stupendous collection were yet concealed by cloths, lest the envious dust should injure their complexions, Nell bestirred herself to assist in the embellishment of the room, in which her grandfather also was of great service.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Of the echinodermes, remarkable for their coating of spines, asteri, sea-stars, pantacrinae, comatules, asterophons, echini, holothuri, etc., represented individually a complete collection of this group.
-- It was a collection of inestimable value, which time fails me to describe minutely.
-- Therefore, to estimate the value of this collection was simply impossible.
-- No museum in Europe possesses such a collection of the produce of the ocean.
-- I will not mention all the varieties which passed before my dazzled eyes, all the collection of the seas of China and Japan.
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