nurse是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 护士, 保姆v. 护理, 看护,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said the Tatar, bending down to Levin, like a nurse speaking to a child.
-- Besides this, the care of her large family was a constant worry to her: first, the nursing of her young baby did not go well, then the nurse had gone away, now one of the children had fallen ill. "Well, how are all of you?"
-- "And your nurse is simply charming!A pretty maid in an apron might be even more agreeable, perhaps; but for your severe monastic style it does very well."
-- Seryozha had been caught by the rain in the big garden, and he and his nurse had taken shelter in an arbor.
-- Chapter 2 Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to the cellar a jar of mushrooms she had just pickled, slipped, fell, and sprained her wrist.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions, but grudgingly he stopped at the door of a bedroom in which a probationer nurse was scrubbing the floor.
-- "I am Dr. Arrowsmith," he snorted, "and I've been informed that even probationers learn that the first duty of a nurse is to stand when addressing doctors!I wish to find Ward D, to take a strain of--IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW!--a very dangerous microbe, and if you will kindly direct me--" "Oh, gee, I've been getting fresh again.
-- But if you saw some of the old muffs of doctors that a nurse has to be meek to--Honestly, Doctor--if you ARE a doctor--" "I don't see that I need to convince you!"
-- He informed himself that he was a moron to make this long trip into Zenith twice in one day; he remembered that he was engaged to a girl called Madeline Fox; he worried the matter of unfaithfulness; he asserted that Leora Tozer was merely an imitation nurse who was as illiterate as a kitchen wench and as impertinent as a newsboy; he decided, several times he decided, to telephone her and free himself from the engagement.
-- "Especially there's one nurse there who's a wonder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My mother was somuch worse that Peggotty, coming in with the tea-board andcandles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was,- as Miss Betseymight have done sooner if there had been light enough,conveyedher upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately des-patched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some dayspast secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a specialmessenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
-- Icould not bear to hear my old nurse so decried, and made thesubject of such a wish.
-- She dropped her face on my oldnurse's breast, and, ceasing this supplication, which in its agonyand grief was half a woman's, half a child's, as all her manner was(being, in that, more natural, and better suited to her beauty, as Ithought, than any other manner could have been), wept silently,while my old nurse hushed her like an infant.
-- My old nurse was to go to London with me next day, on thebusiness of the will.
-- I have only noticed them from over the way, because ifthe broker saw me, bless you, he'd ask any price for them!Whathas occurred to me, having now the money, is, that perhaps you 458wouldn't object to ask that good nurse of yours to come with me tothe shop- I can show it her from round the corner of the nextstreet- and make the best bargain for them, as if they were forherself, that she can!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'So scrupulous for others,' he continued, 'and yet so care-less for herself!She wanted me to nurse my cold by staying at home to-day, and yet will not promise to avoid the danger of catching an ulcerated sore throat herself.
-- Nobody could nurse her, as we should do.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And then she called me, and made me fill the bath, and after that told me I had better go and lie down because I looked so ill. Then she locked herself into the room alone with him, and would not let a nurse come in, or anybody at all.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He knew that I could not have a more kind and at-tentive nurse than himself; and, firm in the hope he felt of my recovery, he did not doubt that, instead of doing harm, he performed the kindest action that he could towards them.
-- 'For that matter,' replied the old woman, 'if you mean about the gentleman you murdered, I believe that it were better for you if you were dead, for I fancy it will go hard with you!However, that's none of my business; I am sent to nurse you and get you well; I do my duty with a safe con-science; it were well if everybody did the same.'
-- He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale as the effects of delirium.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 芒聙娄" So Scarlett's trunk was packed again with her mourning clothes and off she went to Atlanta with Wade Hamptonand his nurse Prissy, a headful of admonitions as to her conduct from Ellen and Mammy and a hundred dollars inConfederate bills from Gerald.
-- Prissy had never been more than a mile away from Twelve Oaks or Tara before, and the trip onthe train plus her elevation to nurse was almost more than the brain in her little black skull could bear.
-- We nurse the men and help the doctors and makebandages and clothes and when the men are well enough to leave the hospitals we take them into our homes toconvalesce till they are able to go back in the army.
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