punish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 惩罚， 处罚，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was just attempting to do what she had attempted to do ten times already in these last three days--to sort out the children's things and her own, so as to take them to her mother's--and again she could not bring herself to do this; but now again, as each time before, she kept saying to herself, "that things cannot go on like this, that she must take some step" to punish him, put him to shame, avenge on him some little part at least of the suffering he had caused her.
-- he said, sobbing now; "for mercy's sake, think of the children; they are not to blame!I am to blame, and punish me, make me expiate my fault.
-- And going once again over the conditions inseparable from a duel, a divorce, a separation, and once again rejecting them, Alexey Alexandrovitch felt convinced that there was only one solution,--to keep her with him, concealing what had happened from the world, and using every measure in his power to break off the intrigue, and still more--though this he did not admit to himself--to punish her.
-- She had not complied with his request, and he was bound to punish her and carry out his threat--obtain a divorce and take away his son.
-- I shall have to punish you."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When you decamped in that rascally way without leaving your address, I felt so angry that I resolved to find you out and punish you.
-- There's no need for such anxiety, however; the masses will scarcely ever admit this right, they punish them or hang them (more or less), and in doing so fulfil quite justly their conservative vocation.
-- Besides, he could not endure uncertainty, and he wanted an explanation: if his request had been so openly disobeyed, there was something behind it, and in that case it was better to find it out beforehand; it rested with him to punish them and there would always be time for that.
-- Well, punish me for the letter of the law 芒聙娄 and that's enough.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was soon my child-wife indeed;sitting down on the floor outside the Chinese house, ringing all thelittle bells one after another, to punish Jip for his recent badbehaviour; while Jip lay blinking in that doorway with his headout, even too lazy to be teased.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll punish him by my soul, that will I!I'll meet him, soldier or no, and I'll horsewhip the untimely stripling for this reckless theft of my one delight.
-- "You juggler of Satan!You black hound!But I'll punish you yet; mark me, I'll punish you yet!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The government of France were greatly enraged at the escape of their victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliverer.
-- My papa is a Syndic he is M. Frankenstein he will punish you.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- answered the sparrow as she flew away; 'now will I plague and punish thee at thy own house.'
-- You shall suffer for it we will punish you by a bloody war.'
-- And the old king was very angry, and wanted to punish his wicked sons; but they made their escape, and got into a ship and sailed away over the wide sea, and where they went to nobody knew and nobody cared.
-- He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be ap-peased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understand-ing, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
-- This envoy had instructions to represent to the monarch of Blefuscu, 'the great lenity of his master, who was content to punish me no farther than with the loss of mine eyes; that I had fled from justice; and if I did not re-turn in two hours, I should be deprived of my title of nardac, and declared a traitor.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If I do her any hurt, sir, there's a law to punish me?'
-- 'If I flee from her, there's a law to punish me?'
-- 'If I marry t'oother dear lass, there's a law to punish me?'
-- 'If I was to live wi' her an' not marry her saying such a thing could be, which it never could or would, an' her so good there's a law to punish me, in every innocent child belonging to me?'
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