mint是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 薄荷, 造币厂,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And bythat sort of thing we very often lose a little mint of money,' saidMr. Omer.
-- The second waiter informed me, in a whisper, that this oldgentleman was a retired conveyancer living in the Square, andworth a mint of money, which it was expected he would leave tohis laundress's daughter; likewise that it was rumoured that hehad a service of plate in a bureau, all tarnished with lying by,though more than one spoon and a fork had never yet been beheldin his cham- bers by mortal vision.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It costs a mint of money.'
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:
-- The professors made a professor of me; the tailors gave me new clothes I am well furnished; the master of the mint struck new coin for me, and the women said I was so handsome!And so I be-came the man I am.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hospital should make a mint of money tonight.
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