handy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 手边的， 近便的； 方便的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had asked the prisoner, aboard the Calais packet, if he wanted a handy fellow, and the prisoner had engaged him.
-- He had not asked the prisoner to take the handy fellow as an act of charity never thought of such a thing.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Probably not--and until some genius like yourself, Arrowsmith, can herd together a few hundred people with exactly identical cases of erysipelas, it probably never will be tried!Meanwhile I trust that you other gentlemen, who perhaps lack Mr. Arrowsmith's profound scientific attainments and the power to use such handy technical terms as 'control,' will, merely on my feeble advice, continue to use ichthyol!"
-- It'd be so handy to the house, for you to get to meals on time, and you could keep an eye on the house if the girl was out and Ory and I went out visiting or to the Embroidery Circle."
-- I own a good share of the bank that's lent various handy little sums to Mayor Pugh.
-- He was not particularly interested in it, and now, in his laboratory, he removed his military blouse, looked down to the lights on the blue-black river, smoked a little, thought what a dog he was not to be gentler to Leora, and damned Bert Tozer and Pickerbaugh and Tubbs and anybody else who was handy to his memory before he absent-mindedly wavered to the incubator, and found that the flask, in which there should have been a perceptible cloudy growth, had no longer any signs of bacteria--of staphylococci.
-- Chapter 32 There may have been in the shadowy heart of Max Gottlieb a diabolic insensibility to divine pity, to suffering humankind; there may have been mere resentment of the doctors who considered his science of value only as it was handy to advertising their business of healing; there may have been the obscure and passionate and unscrupulous demand of genius for privacy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not quite such goodcompany during dinner as I could have wished to be, for my chairwas opposite the door, and my attention was distracted byobserving that the handy young man went out of the room veryoften, and that his shadow always presented itself, immediatelyafter- wards, on the wall of the entry, with a bottle at its mouth.
-- These, however, were small drawbacks, and easily forgotten whenthe cloth was cleared, and the dessert put on the table; at whichperiod of the entertainment the handy young man was discoveredto be speechless.
-- I bought a second-hand dumb-waiter for this dinner-party, inpreference to reengaging the handy young man; against whom Ihad conceived a prejudice.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She only got handy the Union-house on Sunday morning 'a b'lieve, and 'tis supposed here and there that she had traipsed every step of the way from Melchester.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was never allowed a candle to light me to bed, and, as I went upstairs in the dark, with my head tingling,--from Mrs. Joe's thimble having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,--I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the hulks were handy for me.
-- "I don't take to Philip," said he, smiling, "for it sounds like a moral boy out of the spelling-book, who was so lazy that he fell into a pond, or so fat that he couldn't see out of his eyes, or so avaricious that he locked up his cake till the mice ate it, or so determined to go a bird's-nesting that he got himself eaten by bears who lived handy in the neighborhood.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, determined to build himself a monument of a reputation quickly, he used any handy rubble in the making.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other's live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing, that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties; and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea.
-- In the excitement of the moment, Ahab had forgotten that since the loss of his leg he had never once stepped on board of any vessel at sea but his own, and then it was always by an ingenious and very handy mechanical contrivance peculiar to the Pequod, and a thing not to be rigged and shipped in any other vessel at a moment's warning.
-- Thy coffin lies handy to the vault."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my wicker-ware also I improved much, and made abundance of necessary baskets, as well as my invention showed me; though not very handsome, yet they were such as were very handy and convenient for laying things up in, or fetching things home.
-- great baskets, in which we kept it; and the Spaniard was very handy and dexterous at this part, and often blamed me that I did not make some things for defence of this kind of work; but I saw no need of it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it.
-- They would all come handy by and by, I judged.
-- We put all the other things handy at the back of the cavern.
-- She said she had to have things handy to throw at them when she was alone, or they wouldn't give her no peace.
-- I set it down, private, because somebody might want ME to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rat-tle it off like I was used to it.
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