subordinate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 下级的, 次要的; 从属的; n. 部下, 下级职员; vt. 把…列为下级, 使在次要地位，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those might come in as subordinate accessories a sort of mist.
-- I wish ... to visit Madame Terentieff, the widow of Captain Terentieff, my old subordinate and friend.
-- Two years ago, on Easter Eve, His Excellency Nil Alexeyovitch, whose subordinate I was then, wished to hear what I had to say, and sent a message by Peter Zakkaritch to ask me to go to his private room.
-- Our subject was an infant in arms when he lost his father, an officer who died just as he was about to be court-mar-tialled for gambling away the funds of his company, and perhaps also for flogging a subordinate to excess (remem-ber the good old days, gentlemen).
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We had better,' said this subordinate minister of justice, 'get to the office while there's a magistrate sitting.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Holabird was gentle and pretty, but he sighed that if this conclusion were published, he would have to take back all the things he had said about the magnificence which, presumably, he had inspired his subordinate to accomplish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What I particularly request Mr. Micawber to be careful of, is,' saidMrs. Micawber, 'that he does not, my dear Mr. Copperfield, inapplying himself to this subordinate branch of the law, place it outof his power to rise, ultimately, to the top of the tree.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I answered it within an hour; but from the confusion of my mind, and the multiplicity of business fall-ing on me at once, my answer, instead of being sent with all the many other letters of that day, was locked up in my writ-ing-desk; and I, trusting that I had written enough, though but a few lines, to satisfy her, remained without any uneasiness. I was rather disappointed that I did not hear from her again speedily; but I made excuses for her, and was too busy, and may I add? too cheerful in my views to be captious. We removed to Windsor; and two days after-wards I received a parcel from her, my own letters all returned! and a few lines at the same time by the post, stating her extreme surprize at not having had the smallest reply to her last; and adding, that as silence on such a point could not be misconstrued, and as it must be equally desir-able to both to have every subordinate arrangement concluded as soon as possible, she now sent me, by a safe conveyance, all my letters, and requested, that if I could not directly command hers, so as to send them to Highbury within a week, I would forward them after that period to her at : in short, the full direction to Mr. Smallridge's, near Bristol, stared me in the face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Wemmick, "I told you so!Asks another question of the subordinate before his first is dry!Well, supposing Mr. Pip is one of them?"
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 were all subordinate to him.
-- No part should be subordinate to any other part: all should be equal.
-- In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything is subordinate to some great law of nature.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't you think one can just subordinate the sex thing to the necessities of a long life?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, Tinkler the valet was instructed to find Miss Amy's maid, and to request that subordinate to inform Miss Amy that Mr Dorrit wished to see her in his own room.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.
-- But be all this as it may, certain it is that while the subordinate phantoms soon found their place among the crew, though still as it were somehow distinct from them, yet that hair-turbaned Fedallah remained a muffled mystery to the last.
-- And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat's crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree.
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