leader是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 领袖, 领导人; 首领,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:
-- We need not lose ourselves in vain conjectures, but consider it as certain that Ben Joyce is Ayrton, and that Ayrton is Ben Joyce; that is to say, one of the crew of the BRITANNIA has turned leader of the convict gang."
-- The parents and friends arrived at the foot of the mound, and at a certain moment, as if the leader of an orchestra were leading a funeral chant, there arose a great wail of tears, sighs, and sobs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- the near leader violently shook his head and everything upon it like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the coach could be got up the hill.
-- Whenever the leader made this rattle, the passenger started, as a nervous passenger might, and was disturbed in mind.
-- The coach-man looked back and the guard looked back, and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked back, with-out contradicting.
-- Madame Defarge sat observing it, with such suppressed approval as was to be desired in the leader of the Saint An-toine women.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even more than Clay Tredgold was he a leader of the Ashford Grove aristocracy, but, while he stood like an invading barbarian in the blue and silver room, Schlemihl was cordial: "Glad meet yuh, Doctor.
-- The rat-catcher's assistant became a respectable smuggler and leader of a Wesleyan choir.
-- Called in from the laboratory, a rather young man in a wrinkled soft collar, dizzy still with the details of Erlenmeyer flasks, infusorial earth, and sterile filters, Martin was confronted by the Men of Measured Merriment, and found that he was no longer concealed in the invisibility of insignificance but regarded as a leader who was expected not only to produce miracles but to explain beforehand how important and mature and miraculous he was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr.Spenlow seemed to think, if he thought anything about the matter,that my aunt was the leader of the state party in our family, andthat there was a rebel party commanded by somebody else- so Igathered at least from what he said, while we were waiting for Mr.Tiffey to make out Peggotty's bill of costs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They entered, and their leader addressed me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The officers were elected by the members, for no one in the County had had any military experience except a fewveterans of the Mexican and Seminole wars and, besides, the Troop would have scorned a veteran as a leader if theyhad not personally liked him and trusted him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had heard, indeed, some curious Houyhnhnms observe, that in most herds there was a sort of ruling Yahoo (as among us there is generally some leading or principal stag in a park), who was always more deformed in body, and mischievous in disposition, than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favourite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master's feet and posteri-ors, and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass's flesh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You had better tell us at once, that that fellow Slackbridge is not in the town, stirring up the people to mutiny; and that he is not a regular qualified leader of the people: that is, a most confounded scoundrel.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having christened the volcanic island by the name of his nephew, the leader of the expedition turned away and gave the signal for embarkation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though everywhere the leader and the guide, Little Dorrit, happy for once in her youthful appearance, feigned to cling to and rely upon Maggy.
-- He was happy, he observed, in his public capacity as leader and representative of the College, to receive Mr Clennam when he called to pay his respects; but he didn't find that he got on with him personally.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But to this their leader as fiercely objected, reserving that priority for himself; particularly as his two comrades would not yield, the one to the other, in the matter; and both of them could not be first, for the ladder would but admit one man at a time.
-- But when Steelkilt made known his determination still to lead them to the last, they in some way, by some subtle chemistry of villany, mixed their before secret treacheries together; and when their leader fell into a doze, verbally opened their souls to each other in three sentences; and bound the sleeper with cords, and gagged him with cords; and shrieked out for the Captain at midnight.
-- Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the details of the make-up had been completed, and the company settled down as the leader of the small, hired orchestra tapped significantly upon his music rack with his baton and began the soft curtain-raising strain.
-- Astonished at this change, she thought that the heretofore leader must be ill; but when she saw her in the line, with a distinct expression of something unfavourable in her eye, she began to think that perhaps it was merit.
-- Its leader was most stunningly arrayed in the same colours, elaborated, however, with epaulets and a belt of silver, with a short sword dangling at one side.
-- Outside in the gloom they stood, while the leader parleyed within.
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