government是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 政府, 内阁; 管理, 支配; 政治, 政体,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:
-- Yes, he was opposed to our entering the European War, but he assured them, he certainly did assure them, that he was for using every power of our Government to end this terrible calamity.
-- But behind it are the Penrith Hills, on whose wholesome and palm-softened heights is Government House, looking to the winking sails.
-- II Though Government House was officially the chief residence of St. Hubert, it was but a thatched bungalow a little larger than Martin's own Penrith Lodge.
-- Inchcape Jones offered to Martin the position of Government bacteriologist, but he refused lest he be sidetracked.
-- They stole food from shops, tents and blankets and camp-stoves from the Government military warehouse, and jammed their booty into motor trucks.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was another man in the room who looked somewhat like a retired government clerk.
-- The laughter and the oaths came from those who were listening and also from those who had heard nothing but were simply looking at the figure of the discharged government clerk.
-- He is a well-to-do man, to be depend-ed upon, he has two posts in the government and has already made his fortune.
-- Hm 芒聙娄 so it is finally settled; you have determined to marry a sensible business man, Avdotya Romanovna, one who has a fortune (has already made his fortune, that is so much more solid and impressive) a man who holds two government posts and who shares the ideas of our most rising generation, as mother writes, and who seems to be kind, as Dounia herself observes.
-- 'Be silent!You are in a government office.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not in regular government pay and employment, to lay traps?
-- How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.
-- His high per-sonal popularity, and the clearness of his answers, made a great impression; but, as he proceeded, as he showed that the Accused was his first friend on his release from his long imprisonment; that, the accused had remained in England, always faithful and devoted to his daughter and himself in their exile; that, so far from being in favour with the Aris-406 A tale of two citiestocrat government there, he had actually been tried for his life by it, as the foe of England and friend of the United States as he brought these circumstances into view, with the greatest discretion and with the straightforward force of truth and earnestness, the Jury and the populace became one.
-- He knew that under the overthrown government he had been a spy upon Saint Antoine and Defarge's wine-shop; had re-ceived from the watchful police such heads of information concerning Doctor Manette's imprisonment, release, and history, as should serve him for an introduction to familiar conversation with the Defarges; and tried them on Ma-dame Defarge, and had broken down with them signally.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc., etc.
-- But in spite of his habitually dissipated mode of life, his inferior grade in the service, and his comparative youth, he occupied the honorable and lucrative position of president of one of the government boards at Moscow.
-- After filling for three years the post of president of one of the government boards at Moscow, Stepan Arkadyevitch had won the respect, as well as the liking, of his fellow officials, subordinates, and superiors, and all who had had business with him.
-- "We have succeeded in getting the information from the government department of Penza.
-- One circle was her husband's government official set, consisting of his colleagues and subordinates, brought together in the most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, brigadiers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds.
-- It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.
-- Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them to the eastern coast.
-- "The Government is very severe upon that kind of offence.
-- The English Government has succeeded in greatly diminishing these murders, though the Thuggees still exist, and pursue the exercise of their horrible rites.
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