prepare是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 准备， 预备，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：
-- It was told me by the Bank that the gentleman would explain to me the details of the business, and that I must prepare myself to find them of a surprising nature.
-- I have done my best to prepare myself, and I naturally have a strong and ea-ger interest to know what they are.'
-- The valet come and gone, Monsieur the Marquis walked to and fro in his loose chamber-robe, to prepare himself gently for sleep, that hot still night.
-- Eh well!Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?'
-- He tried to prepare himself in vain; perhaps the effort to prepare himself made him less able to bear it.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew that when the time came, and when he saw his enemy facing him, and studiously endeavoring to assume an expression of indifference, his speech would flow of itself better than he could prepare it now.
-- "I should have liked to say something to Sergey Ivanovitch, to prepare him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thereafter Martin had to purchase drugs from St. Paul, over-crowd his tiny laboratory, and prepare his own pills and ointments, looking in a homesick way at the rarely used test-tubes and the dust gathering on the bell glass of his microscope, while Pete Yeska joined with the Norbloms in Whispering, "This new doc here ain't any good.
-- He was flustered when he tried to prepare his notes, and on the morning of the affair he was chill as he remembered the dreadful thing he would do this day, but he was desperate with embarrassment when he came up to the Star of Hope Church.
-- Sir Robert Fairlamb was a blundering hero, exasperating the sick while he tried to nurse them; Stokes remained the Rock of Ages--he had only three hours' sleep a night, but he never failed to take his accustomed fifteen minutes of exercise when he awoke; and Leora was busy in Penrith Lodge, helping Martin prepare phage.
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：
-- We cure and prepare hides, we take work home 芒聙娄 most of all I was vexed芒聙娄.'
-- She began to prepare for his coming, began to do up her room for him, to clean the furniture, to wash and put up new hangings and so on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In thiscoffer, his riches hid themselves with such a tenacious modesty,that the smallest in- stalments could only be tempted out byartifice; so that Peggotty had to prepare a long and elaboratescheme, a very Gunpowder Plot, for every Saturday's expenses.
-- But,as I knew I could not come next day, when I should have a gooddeal to prepare in the evening, Mr. Micawber arranged that hewould call at Dr. Strong's in the course of the morning (having apresentiment that the remittance would arrive by that post), andpropose the day after, if it would suit me better.
-- When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transportswith the room that was revealed to him; and when I heated thecoffee in an unassuming blocktin vessel in which Mrs. Cruppdelighted to prepare it (chiefly, I believe, because it was notintended for the purpose, being a shaving-pot, and because therewas a patent invention of great price mouldering away in thepantry), he professed so much emotion, that I could joyfully havescalded him.
-- 'Then,'said Traddles, 'you must prepare to disgorge all that your rapacityhas become possessed of, and to make restoration to the lastfarthing.
-- I besought her to be calm,and prepare herself to bear what I had to tell; but I should ratherhave entreated her to weep, for she sat like a stone figure.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had hurried on before her guests to prepare her father for their appearance, and was beyond the reach of Mr. Weston's hint.
-- What has he been judging by? I am not conscious of any difference in my spirits or conversa-tion that could prepare him at this time for my marrying any more than at another. But it was so, I suppose.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fanny shall have fifty to enable her to prepare for the wedding, when you have told me where she is living, and she shall have five hundred paid down on her wedding-day."
-- It was Nature's second way of hinting to him that he was to prepare for foul weather.
-- Her allotted hour having been passed in chatting and looking on, Bathsheba told Liddy not to hurry herself, and went to the small parlour to prepare for departure, which, like the hall, was decorated with holly and ivy, and well lighted up.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He belonged to the number of young men who know as children that their parents' hopes are centered on them, and deliberately prepare themselves for a great career, subordinating their studies from the first to this end, carefully watching the indications of the course of events, calculating the probable turn that affairs will take, that they may be the first to profit by them.
-- He equipped himself with wit, rehearsed repartees in the course of an imaginary conversation, and prepared certain neat speeches a la Talleyrand, conjuring up a series of small events which should prepare the way for the declaration on which he had based his future; and during these musings the law student was bespattered with mud, and by the time he reached the Palais Royal he was obliged to have his boots blacked and his trousers brushed.
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