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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For my own part, I venture to affirm that the best judge in the Temple would be puzzled what to make of me.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He rushed at him, but at that very instant Hippolyte raised the pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If I have ever decked your temple with gar-lands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans.'
-- Tell her to bid the matrons gather at the temple of Minerva in the acropolis; let her then take her key and open the doors of the sacred building; there, upon the knees of Minerva, let her lay the largest, fairest robe she has in her house the one she sets most store by; let her, moreover, promise to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad, in the temple of the goddess, if she will take pity on the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans, and keep the son of Tydeus from falling on the goodly city of Ilius; for he fights with fury and fills men's souls with panic.
-- Get the matrons together, and go with offerings to the temple of Minerva driver of the spoil; there, upon the knees of Minerva, lay the largest and fairest robe you have in your house the one you set most store by; promise, moreover, to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have nev-er yet felt the goad, in the temple of the goddess if she will take pity on the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans, and keep the son of Tydeus from off the goodly city of Ilius, for he fights with fury, and fills men's souls with panic.
-- Go, then, to the temple of Minerva, while I seek Paris and exhort him, if he will hear my words.
-- When they reached the temple of Minerva, lovely The-ano, daughter of Cisseus and wife of Antenor, opened the doors, for the Trojans had made her priestess of Minerva.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The herd rounded up in the misty twilight, and when they got near the village Mowgli saw lights, and heard the conches and bells in the temple blowing and banging.
-- Then they banged the temple bells and blew the conches louder than ever.
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:
-- 'You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it,' cried David who was deep-ly tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supply-ing faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdi-ties and doubt; 'your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Surrounded by unfeeling creditors, and mercenary attendants upon the sick, and meeting in the height of her anxiety and sorrow with little regard or sympathy even from the women about her, it is not surprising that the affectionate heart of the child should have been touched to the quick by one kind and generous spirit, however uncouth the temple in which it dwelt.
-- Dick complied, his eyes wandering all the time from the temple on the table, which seemed to do everything, to the great trunk which seemed to hold everything.
-- Mr Codlin added a corroborative nod and a short groan, as if he still felt the weight of the Temple on his shoulders.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She could only remark, as a general principle observed in the varnishing trade, that much depended on the quarter from which the lady under consideration was accredited to a family so conspicuously niched in the social temple as the family of Dorrit.
-- The Temple of Vesta might have sprung up anew from its ruins, expressly to lend its countenance to the occasion.
-- The deep bell of St Paul's was striking nine as he passed under the shadow of Temple Bar, headless and forlorn in these degenerate days.
-- On the profits of his intrepidity, Mrs Sparkler and Mrs Merdle, inhabiting different floors of the genteel little temple of inconvenience to which the smell of the day before yesterday's soup and coach-horses was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But ploughed up to the primary rock of the matter, the two great principles laid down in the twin whaling laws previously quoted, and applied and elucidated by Lord Ellenborough in the above cited case; these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will, on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines, has but two props to stand on.
-- When the vast body had at last been stripped of its fathom-deep enfoldings, and the bones become dust dry in the sun, then the skeleton was carefully transported up the Pupella glen, where a grand temple of lordly palms now sheltered it.
-- In an apartment of the great temple of Denderah, some fifty years ago, there was discovered upon the granite ceiling a sculptured and painted planisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins, and dolphins, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe of the moderns.
-- In this Afric Temple of the Whale I leave you, reader, and if you be a Nantucketer, and a whaleman, you will silently worship there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Well,' said the robber, grasping Oliver's wrist, and putting the barrel so close to his temple that they touched; at which moment the boy could not repress a start; 'if you speak a word when you're out o'doors with me, except when I speak to you, that loading will be in your head without notice.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I felled a cedar-tree, and I question much whether Solomon ever had such a one for the building of the Temple of Jerusalem; it was five feet ten inches diameter at the lower part next the stump, and four feet eleven inches diameter at the end of twenty-two feet; after which it lessened for a while, and then parted into branches.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The common run of conventional, perfunctory notices of the doings of society, which she could scarcely refrain from scanning each day, had given her a distinct idea of the gorgeousness and luxury of this wonderful temple of gastronomy.
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