inspector是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 检查员; 巡官,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was summoned into the reception- room of the department to explain to angry citizens why the garage next door to them should smell of gasoline; he went back to his cubbyhole to dictate letters to school-principals about dental clinics; he drove out to Swede Hollow to see what attention the food and dairy inspector had given to the slaughterhouses; he ordered a family in Shantytown quarantined; and escaped at last into the laboratory.
-- Martin felt that he ought to praise his chief but, to Leora's gratified amazement, he sprang up and ranted in something like Pickerbaugh's best manner: "Gentlemen of the Steel Windmill Industries, than which there is no other that has so largely contributed to the prosperity of our commonwealth, while I realize that you are getting away with every infraction of the health laws that the inspector doesn't catch you at, yet I desire to pay a tribute to your high respect for sanitation, patriotism, and cocktails, and if I only had an assistant more earnest than young Arrowsmith, I should, with your permission, become President of the United States."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lord Glenarvan, having introduced himself to the surveyor-general, entered into conversation with him and the inspector of police.
-- "Read," replied the Major, offering Glenarvan a copy of the Australian and New Zealand Gazette, "and you will see that the inspector of the police was not mistaken."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The inspector told him that she might be found in the old temporary prison.
-- Nekhludoff asked the servant if the inspector was in.
-- "At ten o'clock to-morrow the prison is open to all visitors, and the inspector will be here.
-- You could then see her in the common reception-room, or, if the inspector permits it, in the office."
-- Scarcely had Maslova arranged her hair when the inspector entered with his attendants.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As is invariably the case, after they had been asked at what price they wanted rooms, it appeared that there was not one decent room for them; one decent room had been taken by the inspector of railroads, another by a lawyer from Moscow, a third by Princess Astafieva from the country.
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