pledge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 保证, 誓言; 信物; 抵押品; vt. 保证, 许诺，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed as if this man's presence was the sure pledge of Harry Grant's deliverance.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When would his friends unite to give him a pledge of their good will?
-- We will drive in to Coombe Tracey, but Watson will leave his things as a pledge that he will come back to you.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the hedgehog, it was just a hedgehog, which meant nothing unless, indeed, it was a pledge of friendship, the sign of forgetting of offences and so on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pledge you, but I deny the beauty.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Duncan, who interpreted this speech to express a wish for some additional pledge that the promised gifts should not be withheld, slowly and reluctantly repaired to the place where the sisters were now resting from their fatigue, to communicate its purport to Cora.
-- Then, Uncas, do you drive in the front; when they come within range of our pieces, we will give them a blow that, I pledge the good name of an old frontiersman, shall make their line bend like an ashen bow.
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：
-- 'But that's for me to do as I please, my good sir, to wait or to sell your pledge at once.'
-- She is as rich as a Jew, she can give you five thousand roubles at a time and she is not above taking a pledge for a rouble.
-- And he began describing how spiteful and uncertain she was, how if you were only a day late with your interest the pledge was lost; how she gave a quarter of the value of an ar-ticle and took five and even seven percent a month on it and so on.
-- When he had finished with this, he thrust his hand into a little opening between his sofa and the floor, fumbled in the left corner and drew out the pledge which he had got ready long before and hidden there.
-- This pledge was, however, only a smoothly planed piece of wood the size and thick-ness of a silver cigarette case.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I amnot here to make any promise, or give any pledge to anybody.
-- My word being passedto myself, there is no longer any apprehension; but I pledge it toyou, too, with the greatest readiness.
-- I cannot, even now, distinctly pledge myselfto fall upon your family's neck; but the member of your family,who is now in attendance, shall have no genial warmth frozen byme.
-- Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spooninto Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I beg permission to have a few wit-nesses examined concerning my character, and if their testimony shall not overweigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned, although I would pledge my salvation on my innocence.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.
-- What was my indignant surprise when he called upon the company to pledge him to "Estella!"
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the toast was drunk, the pledge made and loyally kept in spite of many temptations, for with instinctive wisdom, the girls seized a happy moment to do their friend a service, for which he thanked them all his life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title "Lord of the White Elephants" above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion; and the modern kings of Siam unfurling the same snow-white quadruped in the royal standard; and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, C脙娄sarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial colour the same imperial hue; and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made significant of gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked a joyful day; and though in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings, this same hue is made the emblem of many touching, noble things the innocence of brides, the benignity of age; though among the Red Men of America the giving of the white belt of wampum was the deepest pledge of honor; though in many climes, whiteness typifies the majesty of Justice in the ermine of the Judge, and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by milk-white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of the most august religions it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull; and though to the noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they could send to the Great Spirit with the annual tidings of their own fidelity; and though directly from the Latin word for white, all Christian priests derive the name of one part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic, worn beneath the cassock; and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord; though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed, and the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before the great white throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there white like wool; yet for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.
-- I impute it, though, to their naturally unctuous natures, being rendered still more unctuous by the nature of their vocation, and especially by their pursuing their game in those frigid Polar Seas, on the very coasts of that Esquimaux country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not the slightest fear, I pledge you my honour!'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the old man he signed a pledge made his mark.
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