amends是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 赔偿，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Enough; I will make you amends for what I have said, and if any ill has now been spoken may the gods bring it to noth-ing.'
-- Agamem-non will make you great amends if you will forgive him; listen, and I will tell you what he has said in his tent that he will give you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to know that no space of re-gret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!
-- Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it wos so, which I still don't say it is (for I will not prewaricate to you, sir), let that there boy keep his fa-ther's place, and take care of his mother; don't blow upon that boy's father do not do it, sir and let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug if it wos so-by diggin' of 'em in with a will, and with conwictions respectin' the futur' kee-pin' of 'em safe.
-- 'For his sake, Doctor,' she said, pointing to him in tears, 'I would do all I can to make what poor amends I can.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heridea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and madesome amends to me, even for the loss of my friend.
-- It was an aggravating circumstance in the case that he hadno idea of this, but conceived that he was making me amends inevery new discovery: not to say, heaping obligations on my head.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he were deficient there, nothing should make amends for it.
-- He listened with all due deference; acknowledged that he had heard many people say the same but yet he must con-fess, that to him nothing could make amends for the want of the fine glow of health.
-- I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.'
-- Her father's comfort was amply secured, Mrs. Bates as well as Mrs. Goddard being able to come; and her last pleas-ing duty, before she left the house, was to pay her respects to them as they sat together after dinner; and while her fa-ther was fondly noticing the beauty of her dress, to make the two ladies all the amends in her power, by helping them to large slices of cake and full glasses of wine, for whatev-er unwilling self-denial his care of their constitution might have obliged them to practise during the meal. She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had been awe-struck at her past temerity, and was struggling to make amends without thinking whether the sin quite deserved the penalty she was schooling herself to pay.
-- If there had been anything I could have done to make amends I would most gladly have done it there was nothing on earth I so longed to do as to repair the error.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The servant could now easily prove his innocence; and the king, to make amends for the wrong, allowed him to ask a favour, and promised him the best place in the court 211that he could wish for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moral sort of fellows might suppose that Mr. James Harthouse derived some comfortable reflections afterwards, from this prompt retreat, as one of his few actions that made any amends for anything, and as a token to himself that he had escaped the climax of a very bad business.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What wretched amends I can make must be made.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not know how you will ever make him amends for his kindness; or me, either, for that matter.
-- At that instant, she felt that years of happiness could not make Jane or herself amends for moments of such painful confusion.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But perhaps the abuse of such people as yourself and Marianne will make amends for the regard of Lady Middleton and her mother.
-- They afforded her no companion that could make amends for what she had left behind, nor that could teach her to think of Norland with less regret than ever.
-- And we will make the dear little love some amends for her disappointment to-morrow, and then I hope she will not much mind it."
-- she cried, "this is a moment of great happiness! This would almost make amends for every thing!"
-- His opinion, however, made some little amends for his delay, for though acknowledging a very unexpected and unpleasant alteration in his patient, he would not allow the danger to be material, and talked of the relief which a fresh mode of treatment must procure, with a confidence which, in a lesser degree, was communicated to Elinor.
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