minister是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 照顾, 给予帮助，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：
-- As to this, his natural and not to be alienated inheri-tance, the messenger on horseback had exactly the same possessions as the King, the first Minister of State, or the richest merchant in London.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will send my faithful old minister to the weavers,' said the Emperor at last, after some deliberation, 'he will be best able to see how the cloth looks; for he is a man of sense, and no one can be more suitable for his office than be is.'
-- So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms.
-- The poor old minister looked and looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very good reason, viz: there was nothing there.
-- The old minister listened -attentively to their words, in order that he might repeat them to the Emperor; and then the knaves asked for more silk and gold, saying that it was necessary to complete what they had begun.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If only Countess Marya Borissovna were Minister of War, and Princess Vatkovskaya were Commander-in-Chief," said a gray-headed, little old man in a gold-embroidered uniform, addressing a tall, handsome maid of honor who had questioned him about the new appointments.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though for weeks his strongest draft had been the acrid coffee of the countryside, they peeped one to another that he was drunk every night, that the United Brethren minister was about to expose him from the pulpit.
-- He had graduated from Harvard, studied on the Continent, been professor of pathology in the University of Minnesota, president of Hartford University, minister to Venezuela, editor of the Weekly Statesman and president of the Sanity League, finally Director of McGurk.
-- He gaped as he heard Ira pleading: "Gentlemen, I know almost the whole bunch of you are Church of England, but I beg you to listen to me, not as a minister but as a qualified doctor of medicine.
-- His new Buick sedan awaited him outside, and with modest satisfaction he heard the minister gloat: "The righteous, even the Children of Light, they shall be rewarded with a great reward and their feet shall walk in gladness, saith the Lord of Hosts; but the mockers, the Sons of Belial, they shall be slain betimes and cast down into darkness and failure, and in the busy marts shall they be forgot."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She will be rejoiced, Copperfield, to renew heracquaintance with one who has proved himself in all respects aworthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And again, on Emma's merely turning her head to look at Mrs. Bates's knitting, she added, in a half whisper, 'I mentioned no names, you will observe. Oh!no; cau-tious as a minister of state.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have prevented his encountering the inconveniences and perhaps dangers of so long a journey, yet how often have I regretted not being able to perform it myself!I figure to myself that the task of attending on your sickbed has devolved on some mercenary old nurse, who could never guess your wishes nor minister to them with the care and affection of your poor cousin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I looked about me here, an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk minister of justice asked me if I would like to step in and hear a trial or so: informing me that he could give me a front place for half a crown, whence I should command a full view of the Lord Chief Justice in his wig and robes,--mentioning that awful personage like waxwork, and presently offering him at the reduced price of eighteen-pence.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the emperor holds one end of the stick, and his first minister the other; sometimes the minister has it entirely to himself.
-- That minister was galbet, or admiral of the realm, very much in his master's confidence, and a person well versed in affairs, but of a morose and sour complexion.
-- That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the mo-roseness of his nature.
-- This was always the office of some grave trusty servant, in whom I could confide, whether I attended the king and queen in their progresses, or were disposed to see the gardens, or pay a visit to some great lady or minister of state in the court, when Glumdalclitch happened to be out of order; for I soon began to be known and esteemed 137among the greatest officers, I suppose more upon account of their majesties' favour, than any merit of my own.
-- Again: because it is a general complaint, that the favou-rites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories; the same doctor proposed, 'that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business, with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should, at his departure, give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech; or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness; and at every levee day, repeat the same operation, till the business were done, or absolutely refused.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, there was Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle, who had risen to official heights on the wings of one indignant idea, and that was, My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.
-- On this sublime discovery in the great art How not to do it, Lord Decimus had long sustained the highest glory of the Barnacle family; and let any ill-advised member of either House but try How to do it by bringing in a Bill to do it, that Bill was as good as dead and buried when Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle rose up in his place and solemnly said, soaring into indignant majesty as the Circumlocution cheering soared around him, that he was yet to be told, My Lords, that it behoved him as the Minister of this free country, to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.
-- He, the uncouth object of such wide-spread adulation, the sitter at great men's feasts, the roc's egg of great ladies' assemblies, the subduer of exclusiveness, the leveller of pride, the patron of patrons, the bargain-driver with a Minister for Lordships of the Circumlocution Office, the recipient of more acknowledgment within some ten or fifteen years, at most, than had been bestowed in England upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two centuries at least he, the shining wonder, the new constellation to be followed by the wise men bringing gifts, until it stopped over a certain carrion at the bottom of a bath and disappeared was simply the greatest Forger and the greatest Thief that ever cheated the gallows.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The war is over, and Mr. March safely at home, busy with his books and the small parish which found in him a minister by nature as by grace, a quiet, studious man, rich in the wisdom that is better than learn-ing, the charity which calls all mankind 'brother', the piety that blossoms into character, making it august and lovely.
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