praise是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 赞扬， 歌颂； 表扬n. 称赞， 赞美； 赞美的话，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Recovering from the softer impressions produced by Bathsheba's voice, the shearers rose to leave, Coggan turning to Pennyways as he pushed back the bench to pass out: "I like to give praise where praise is due, and the man deserves it that 'a do so," he remarked, looking at the worthy thief, as if he were the masterpiece of some world-renowned artist.
-- "I'm sure I don't deserve half the praise you give me," said the virtuous thief, grimly.
-- Clearly she did not think his barefaced praise of her person an insult now.
-- "Well," continued Troy, "I suppose there is a praise which is rudeness, and that may be mine.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!Yet I ask you not to spare me; listen to me, and then, if you can, and if you will, de-stroy the work of your hands.'
-- Clerval!Be-loved friend!Even now it delights me to record your words and to dwell on the praise of which you are so eminently deserving.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than the neighing of those two degenerate Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still improve in some virtues without any mixture of vice.
-- Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praise of my own dear na- 157tive country in a style equal to its merits and felicity.
-- If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geomet-rical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.
-- I told him, 'that a first or chief minister of state, who was the person I intended to describe, was the creature wholly exempt from joy and grief, love and hatred, pity and anger; at least, makes use of no other passions, but a violent de-sire of wealth, power, and titles; that he applies his words to all uses, except to the indication of his mind; that he never tells a truth but with an intent that you should take it for a lie; nor a lie, but with a design that you should take it for a truth; that those he speaks worst of behind their backs are in the surest way of preferment; and whenever he begins to praise you to others, or to yourself, you are from that day 324 Gulliver's Travelsforlorn.
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：
-- He invited all sorts of people, critics and writers, people who would help to praise his books.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is so true and so devoted, and knows so completely that all her love and duty are his for ever, that you may be certain she will love him, admire him, praise him, and conceal all his faults, until she dies.
-- 'You praise me far too much.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise of her sister, and stored it up to repeat to Meg.
-- Jo let Laurie win the game to pay for that praise of her Beth, who could not be prevailed upon to play for them after her compliment.
-- Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of ex-cellent people by being modest as well as pretty, Meg.'
-- 'Don't praise me, Meg, for I could box his ears this min-ute.
-- Jo's eyes sparkled, for it is always pleasant to be believed in, and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 4 hen Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who Whad been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister just how very much she admired him.
-- Eliza-beth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.
-- 'I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,' cried Elizabeth; 'I am NOT a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.'
-- In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion, with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode, and the improvements it was receiv-ing, he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them; and he found in Mrs. Phillips a very attentive listen-er, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could.
-- Vain indeed must be all her attentions, vain and useless her affection for his sister and her praise of himself, if he were already self-destined for another.
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