sailor是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 水手, 海员,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:
-- She was returning to Glasgow, and the Isle of Arran already loomed in the distance, when the sailor on watch caught sight of an enormous fish sporting in the wake of the ship.
-- The sailor received orders accordingly, and went out to deliver them to the mate.
-- Mary involuntarily gave a start, but the captain said:"Oh, don't be afraid, Miss Mary; he is all right, take my word for it; I'll have a capital sailor to present to Captain Grant before long, for we'll find the worthy captain, depend upon it."
-- Robert bade fair to be an accomplished gentleman some day, for John Mangles was to make a sailor of him, and the Major was to teach him sang-froid, and Glenarvan and Lady Helena were to instil into him courage and goodness and generosity, while Mary was to inspire him with gratitude toward such instructors.
-- John Mangles went to find Glenarvan, and had a private talk with him about their situation, telling him frankly the true state of affairs, stating the case with all the coolness of a sailor prepared for anything and everything and he wound up by saying he might, perhaps, be obliged to cast the yacht on shore.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This child's presence called up both in Vronsky and in Anna a feeling akin to the feeling of a sailor who sees by the compass that the direction in which he is swiftly moving is far from the right one, but that to arrest his motion is not in his power, that every instant is carrying him further and further away, and that to admit to himself his deviation from the right direction is the same as admitting his certain ruin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Mr. Fogg, far from being discouraged, was continuing his search, resolved not to stop if he had to resort to Macao, when he was accosted by a sailor on one of the wharves.
-- The sailor leaned on the railing, opened his eyes wide, and said, "Is your honour joking?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A good sailor could find his way at sea even if he didn't have instruments, and a whole Lusitania-ful of junk wouldn't make a good sailor out of a dub.
-- "Ye-uh, but if there were charts and quadrants in existence, a sailor that cruised off without 'em would be a chump!"
-- My strength-- Huh!I am almost sixty, but the way I can lift weights that no sailor can touch-- And I could fight five rounds!Oh, my God, Martin, I am so weak!Not scared!No!"
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A few months earlier Boldwood's forgetting his husbandry would have been as preposterous an idea as a sailor forgetting he was in a ship.
-- While the swimmer's eyes were fixed upon the spit as his only means of salvation on this side of the Unknown, a moving object broke the outline of the extremity, and immediately a ship's boat appeared manned with several sailor lads, her bows towards the sea.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- During this storm, which was followed by a strong wind west-south- west, we were carried, by my computation, about five hundred leagues to the east, so that the oldest sailor on board could not tell in what part of the world we were.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The honest sailor took advantage of the Professor's enthusiasm to double the fare.
-- The worthy man was as good a sailor as he was a guide and duck hunter.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore.
-- Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.
-- He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.
-- I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when a great battle had been gained there, to barbecue all the slain in the yard or garden of the victor; and then, one by one, they were placed in great wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau, with breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths, were sent round with the victor's compliments to all his friends, just as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys.
-- "Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was the only voyage which I may say was success-ful in all my adventures, which I owe to the integrity and honesty of my friend the captain; under whom also I got a competent knowledge of the mathematics and the rules of navigation, learned how to keep an account of the ship's course, take an observation, and, in short, to understand some things that were needful to be understood by a sailor; for, as he took delight to instruct me, I took delight to learn; and, in a word, this voyage made me both a sailor and a merchant; for I brought home five pounds nine ounces of gold-dust for my adventure, which yielded me in London, at my return, almost 300 pounds; and this filled me with those aspiring thoughts which have since so completed my ruin.
-- In a word, I was so prepossessed against my going by sea at all, except from Calais to Dover, that I resolved to travel all the way by land; which, as I was not in haste, and did not value the charge, was by much the pleasanter way: and to make it more so, my old cap-tain brought an English gentleman, the son of a merchant in Lisbon, who was willing to travel with me; after which we picked up two more English merchants also, and two young Portuguese gentlemen, the last going to Paris only; so that in all there were six of us and five servants; the two mer-chants and the two Portuguese, contenting themselves with one servant between two, to save the charge; and as for me, I got an English sailor to travel with me as a servant, besides my man Friday, who was too much a stranger to be capable of supplying the place of a servant on the road.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had just recently donned a sailor hat for the season with a band of pretty white-dotted blue silk.
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