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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, as is easily understood, the Government opposed his plans, and put difficulties enough in his way to have killed an ordinary man.
-- "Monsieur Deville was on board the government corvette, La Decidee, when she touched at the Cape Verde Islands, and he explored the most interesting of the group, and went to the top of the volcano in Isle Fogo.
-- This very year the Government threatened to withdraw its subsidy from the Peninsular Company if their vessels continued to take in coal in those western parts of Australia where convicts are admitted.
-- The former belongs to the English in Canada, New Brunswick, New Scotland, and the United States, under the government of President Johnson."
-- The Government itself displayed zeal and prudence, especially in the Post-office department.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Next morning my father happened to give me two government loan bonds to sell, worth nearly five thousand roubles each.
-- General Epanchin, as ev-eryone knew, had a good deal to do with certain government monopolies; he was also a voice, and an important one, in many rich public companies of various descriptions; in fact, he enjoyed the reputation of being a wellto-do man of busy habits, many ties, and affluent means.
-- It had struck him as long ago as last spring that he ought to be finding a good match for Nas-tasia; for instance, some respectable and reasonable young fellow serving in a government office in another part of the country.
-- I gave him twenty-five roubles to go on with, and am going to find him some easy place in one of the government offices.
-- His dark beard bore evidence to the fact that he was not in any government employ.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Kala Nag, which means Black Snake, had served the In-dian Government in every way that an elephant could serve it for forty-seven years, and as he was fully twenty years old when he was caught, that makes him nearly seventy a ripe age for an elephant.
-- So, before he was twenty-five, he gave up being afraid, and so he was the best-loved and the best-looked-after elephant in the service of the Government of India.
-- This running up and down among the hills is not the best Government service.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Upon which,' said Mr Meagles, 'as a practical man, I then and there, in that presence, took Doyce by the collar, and told him it was plain to me that he was an infamous rascal and treasonable disturber of the government peace, and took him away.
-- In the yard, was the man with the shadowy grievance respecting the Fund which the Marshal embezzled, who had got up at five in the morning to complete the copying of a perfectly unintelligible history of that transaction, which he had committed to Mr Dorrit's care, as a document of the last importance, calculated to stun the Government and effect the Marshal's downfall.
-- So, bolstered by this mark of Government homage, the wonderful Bank and all the other wonderful undertakings went on and went up; and gapers came to Harley Street, Cavendish Square, only to look at the house where the golden wonder lived.
-- That how it was reported that Mr Merdle's words had been, that if they could have made it worth his while to take the whole Government he would have took it without a profit, but that take it he could not and stand a loss.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But not content with this good deed, the indefatigable house again bestirred itself: Samuel and all his Sons how many, their mother only knows and under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South Sea.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this government of my temper I remained near a year; and lived a very sedate, retired life, as you may well sup-pose; and my thoughts being very much composed as to my condition, and fully comforted in resigning myself to the dispositions of Providence, I thought I lived really very hap-pily in all things except that of society.
-- I first made a little out to sea, full north, till I began to feel the benefit of the current, which set eastward, and which carried me at a great rate; and yet did not so hurry me as the current on the south side had done before, so as to take from me all government of the boat; but having a strong steerage with my paddle, I went at a great rate directly for the wreck, and in less than two hours I came up to it.
-- This furnished my thoughts with many very profitable reflections, and par-ticularly this one: How infinitely good that Providence is, which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things; and though he walks in the midst of so many thousand dangers, the sight of which, if discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink his spirits, he is kept serene and calm, by having the events of things hid from his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him.
-- This frequently gave me occasion to observe, and that with wonder, that however it had pleased God in His provi-dence, and in the government of the works of His hands, to take from so great a part of the world of His creatures the best uses to which their faculties and the powers of their souls are adapted, yet that He has bestowed upon them the same powers, the same reason, the same affec-tions, the same sentiments of kindness and obligation, the same passions and resentments of wrongs, the same sense of gratitude, sincerity, fidelity, and all the capacities of do-ing good and receiving good that He has given to us; and that when He pleases to offer them occasions of exerting these, they are as ready, nay, more ready, to apply them to the right uses for which they were bestowed than we are.
-- Lastly, I wrote to my partner, acknowledging his in-dustry in the improving the plantation, and his integrity in increasing the stock of the works; giving him instructions for his future government of my part, according to the pow-ers I had left with my old patron, to whom I desired him to send whatever became due to me, till he should hear from me more particularly; assuring him that it was my inten-tion not only to come to him, but to settle myself there for the remainder of my life.
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