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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Olbinett, acting on Paganel's advice, lighted his fire to prepare supper in one of these tubular trunks.
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：
-- On the 4th of May Sir Charles had declared his in-tention of starting next day for London, and had ordered Barrymore to prepare his luggage.
-- But in any case it was a blow to him, and it would take him some time before he could prepare himself to meet it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they announce the sentence, you know, and prepare the criminal and tie his hands, and cart him off to the scaf-fold that's the fearful part of the business.
-- She thinks she will be able to make a sort of slave of me all my life; but I shall prepare a little surprise for her.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, therefore, let us obey the behests of night, and prepare our suppers.
-- Prepare a feast for your councillors; it is right and reasonable that you should do so; there is abundance of wine in your tents, which the ships of the Achaeans bring from Thrace daily.
-- On this she nodded quietly to Patroclus as a sign that he was to prepare a bed for Phoenix, and that the others should take their leave.
-- When they reached the strongly built quarters of the son of Tyde-us, they tied the horses with thongs of leather to the manger, where the steeds of Diomed stood eating their sweet corn, but Ulysses hung the blood-stained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship, that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva.
-- But a man can fight all day if he is full fed with meat and wine; his heart beats high, and his strength will stay till he has routed all his foes; therefore, send the people away and bid them prepare their meal; King Agamemnon will bring out the gifts in presence of the assembly, that all may see them and you may be sat-isfied.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall lit the fire and left him there while she went to prepare him a meal with her own hands.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The creature was scarcely so in-telligent as the Ape-man, but far more docile, and the most human-looking of all the Beast Folk; and Montgomery had trained it to prepare food, and indeed to discharge all the trivial domestic offices that were required.
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：
-- That which at first was only rumor, soon became certainty, as orders passed from the quarters of the commander-in-chief to the several corps he had selected for this service, to prepare for their speedy departure.
-- 'You say true!Call up your friends, and bridle the horses while I prepare my own companions for the march!'
-- When the appe-tites of the whole were appeased, the squaws removed the trenchers and gourds, and the two parties began to prepare themselves for a subtle trial of their wits.
-- The fact was soon announced by a significant gesture, -accompanied by a corresponding cry; and the whole of the excited multitude abandoned their mimic warfare, with shrill yells of pleasure, to prepare for the more hazardous experiment of the reality.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Stop here, my boy," said the sailor; "we have to prepare an encampment, and to try and find rather better grub than these shell-fish.
-- They now had only to make a fireplace and to prepare the supper an easy task.
-- They must, in fact, prepare some provisions and procure more strengthening food than eggs and molluscs.
-- It was accordingly settled that for a few days they would remain at the Chimneys so as to prepare themselves for an expedition, either along the shore or into the interior of the country.
-- Pencroft immediately began to prepare the dinner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child asked his leave to prepare breakfast, and her grandfather coming down stairs, they all three partook of it together.
-- She went back to her own room, and tried to prepare herself for bed.
-- Being roused in the morning at the appointed time, and roused with difficulty, after his late fatigues, Quilp instructed Tom Scott to make a fire in the yard of sundry pieces of old timber, and to prepare some coffee for breakfast; for the better furnishing of which repast he entrusted him with certain small moneys, to be expended in the purchase of hot rolls, butter, sugar, Yarmouth bloaters, and other articles of housekeeping; so that in a few minutes a savoury meal was smoking on the board.
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