temple是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 庙宇, 神殿, 寺; 太阳穴,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:
-- 'After that there gallop from Temple Bar, old lady, I won't trust your fore-legs till I get you on the level,' said this hoarse messenger, glancing at his mare.
-- While he trotted back with the message he was to deliver to the night watchman in his box at the door of Tellson's Bank, by Temple Bar, who was to deliver it to greater au-thorities within, the shadows of the night took such shapes to him as arose out of the message, and took such shapes to the mare as arose out of HER private topics of uneasiness.
-- The real Banking-house by Temple Bar, the real business of the past day, the real strong rooms, the real express sent after him, and the real message returned, would all be there.
-- 70 A tale of two citiesBook the Second-the Golden Thread I Five Years Later ellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned Tplace, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty.
-- After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the din-giest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingi-er by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- * Herostratus, or Eratostratus an Ephesian, who wan-tonly set fire to the famous temple of Diana, in order to commemorate his name by so uncommon an action.
-- * temple He now crept on hands and feet through a butcher's shop; at least on every side, and above and below, there was nought but flesh.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, how do you like our Temple of Idolence?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In short, the house in Saville Row, which must have been a very temple of disorder and unrest under the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan, was cosiness, comfort, and method idealised.
-- The cries of the fakirs were just ceasing; the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp, and it might be possible to slip between them to the temple itself.
-- Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily.
-- Several of the audience, not being much interested in the missionary's narrative, here left the car; but Elder Hitch, continuing his lecture, related how Smith, junior, with his father, two brothers, and a few disciples, founded the church of the "Latter Day Saints," which, adopted not only in America, but in England, Norway and Sweden, and Germany, counts many artisans, as well as men engaged in the liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and a town built at Kirkland; how Smith became an enterprising banker, and received from a simple mummy showman a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I had groped my way, blindly, through these difficulties,and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyptian Temple initself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, calledarbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have everknown; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning ofa cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocketstood for disadvantageous.
-- A great deal of very hot port wine wasconsumed at his call; and, considering the figure, I should think theInner Temple must have made a profit by it.
-- We had come,through Temple Bar, into the City.
-- This reception of a shattered fragment ofthe Temple once called Manif I may be permitted so to expressmyself- bespeaks a heart that is an honour to our common nature.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had believed in the best parlor as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence.
-- Alterations have been made in that part of the Temple since that time, and it has not now so lonely a character as it had then, nor is it so exposed to the river.
-- "When you came into the Temple last night--" said I, pausing to wonder whether that could really have been last night, which seemed so long ago.
-- Pursuing the narrow intricacies of the streets which at that time tended westward near the Middlesex shore of the river, my readiest access to the Temple was close by the river-side, through Whitefriars.
-- As it seldom happened that I came in at that Whitefriars gate after the Temple was closed, and as I was very muddy and weary, I did not take it ill that the night-porter examined me with much attention as he held the gate a little way open for me to pass in.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The chief temple described.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Despite his presence of mind, however, the speech of Mr F.'s Aunt produced a depressing effect on the little assembly; firstly, because it was impossible to disguise that Clennam's unoffending head was the particular temple of reason depreciated; and secondly, because nobody ever knew on these occasions whose Uncle George was referred to, or what spectral presence might be invoked under that appellation.
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