author是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 作者, 作家, 著作人; 创始人, 发起人,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Author of 'Some Freaks of Atavism' (Lancet 1882).
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You will admit yourself, general, that for an honourable man, if the author is an honourable man, that is an an in-sult,' growled the boxer suddenly, with convulsive jerkings of his shoulders.
-- Here was I, with my days numbered, and he, a man in the full vigour of life, liv-ing in the present, without the slightest thought for 'final convictions,' or numbers, or days, or, in fact, for anything but that which-which well, which he was mad about, if he will excuse me the expression as a feeble author who can-not express his ideas properly.
-- 'I was reading a book about Napoleon and the Waterloo cam-paign only the other day, by Charasse, in which the author does not attempt to conceal his joy at Napoleon's discom-fiture at every page.
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:
-- It is a circumstance worthy of observation, that while all America rang with his well-merited reputation, his name does not occur in any European account of the battle; at least the author has searched for it without success.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is a singular fascination in watching the eagerness with which the learned author ferrets out every circumstance which may throw discredit on his hero.
-- Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experiences he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
-- When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author had received, and how much he was likely to make out of it.
-- She had a real passion for reading (rare in her kind, who for the most part are more interested in the author than in his book, in the painter than in his pictures), and she invented a world of the imagination in which she lived with a freedom she never acquired in the world of every day.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- responded Herbert, whose pious heart was full of gratitude to the Author of all things.
-- These Americans were religious men, scrupulous observers of the precepts of the Bible, and their situation could not but develop sentiments of confidence towards the Author of all things.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beth, who was col-lecting the scattered Author cards, looked up and said, in her shy yet friendly way, 'I'm afraid you are tired.
-- If this expressive article of dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work was going on, in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew, and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor, and cast upon the floor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Run over a few: The Authors of the Bible; Aristotle; Pliny; Aldrovandi; Sir Thomas Browne; Gesner; Ray; Linn脙娄us; Rondeletius; Willoughby; Green; Artedi; Sibbald; Brisson; Marten; Lac脙漏p脙篓de; Bonneterre; Desmarest; Baron Cuvier; Frederick Cuvier; John Hunter; Owen; Scoresby; Beale; Bennett; J. Ross Browne; the Author of Miriam Coffin; Olmstead; and the Rev.
-- An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn, pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.
-- I know not that any other author has hinted of the matter; but by inference it seems to me that the sturgeon must be divided in the same way as the whale, the King receiving the highly dense and elastic head peculiar to that fish, which, symbolically regarded, may possibly be humorously grounded upon some presumed congeniality.
-- And here be it said, that whenever it has been convenient to consult one in the course of these dissertations, I have invariably used a huge quarto edition of Johnson, expressly purchased for that purpose; because that famous lexicographer's uncommon personal bulk more fitted him to compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me.
-- And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Don't be afraid!We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.'
-- CHAPTER XXVII ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallantry to involve in the same neglect a lady on whom that beadle had looked with an eye of tenderness and affection, and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words--trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated--hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jennings, with a very intelligent "Ah!poor dear," immediately gave her her salts; and Sir John felt so desperately enraged against the author of this nervous distress, that he instantly changed his seat to one close by Lucy Steele, and gave her, in a whisper, a brief account of the whole shocking affair.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The author had used the artifice of sending all the merry company for a drive, and now Carrie came in alone.
-- The author of the skit had fancied that a great deal could be made of such a part, given to the right actress, but now, since it had been doled out to Carrie, he would as leave have had it cut out.
-- The author also sent word.
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