He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with...
【题目】Read “Around the World in Eighty Days" and answer questions 94 to 100.Around the World in Eighty Days The year was 1872. It was 6:10 in the evening. Phileas Fogg was in the card-room at his club. He was at a card table with the same five men as vesterday and the day...
Around the World in 80 Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world ...
the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except ...
He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with...
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 1 Contents Chapter One: When Phileas Fogg meets Passepartout (3) Chapter Two: When Phileas Fogg makes a bet (7) Chapter Three: When gentlemen are thieves (12) Chapter Four: When our adventurers rescue a woman from certain death (15) Charter...
the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever Around the World in 80 Days 5 of 339 seen him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his ...
八十天环游地球 Around the world in eighty days 作者:儒勒·加布里埃尔·凡尔纳 (Jules Gabriel Verne) [法国] 英国绅士福克与朋友打赌两万英镑,要在80天内环游地球一周回到伦敦。但他不幸被误当作偷窃英格兰银行的大盗,被苏格兰场通缉、追捕。随后他和仆人路路通克服了路途中的重重艰难险阻,在环绕地球一圈并回到伦...
`And,' added Passepartout, `that would play the game of the gentlemen of the Reform Club. In four days we shall be in New York. Well, if my master does not leave this car during those four days, we may hope that chance will not bring him face to face with this confounded American...
squarely in his armchair, his feet close together like those of a grenadier on parade, his hands resting on his knees, his body straight, his head erect; he was steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the months, and the years...