pay是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 付款， 付出代价， 给予注意n. 工资， 薪金，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why," he once said to Martin, "should the world pay me for doing what I want and what they do not want?"
-- II Max Gottlieb's wife was thick and slow-moving and mute; at sixty she had not learned to speak easy English; and her German was of the small-town bourgeois, who pay their debts and over-eat and grow red.
-- In regard to salary--permit me to be business-like and perhaps blunt, as my train leaves in one hour--I don't suppose we could equal the doubtless large emolument which the Hunziker people are able to pay you, but we can go to ten thousand dollars a year--" "Oh, my God, do not talk of the money!I shall be wit' you in New York one week from today.
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：
-- For he knows of course that I shan't pay it back.
-- We have now part of a room at Amalia Fyodorovna Lippevechsel's; and what we live upon and what we pay our rent with, I could not say.
-- 'You don't pay her money and you won't turn out of the room.
-- 'They pay so little for lessons.
-- Will you pay me back?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced MissBetsey to pay him off, and effect a separation by mutual consent.
-- 'What should you- what should I- how much ought Ito- what would it be right to pay the waiter, if you please?'
-- Faithful to her promise, sheeither came to see me, or met me somewhere near, once everyweek, and never empty-handed; but many and bitter were thedisappointments I had, in being refused permission to pay a visitto her at her house.
-- Pay us, will you?
-- Pay us, will you?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How often we shall be going to see them, and they com-ing to see us! We shall be always meeting!We must begin; we must go and pay wedding visit very soon.'
-- Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School not of a sem-inary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a rea-sonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, with-out any danger of coming back prodigies.
-- She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up. There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentle-man and a gentleman of fortune. Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort. That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubi-table to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. She is superior to Mr. Rob-ert Martin.'
-- This is saying very plainly 'Pray, Miss Smith, give me leave to pay my addresses to you.
-- Chapter XThough now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably reg-ular exercise; and on the morrow, Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family, who lived a little way out of Highbury.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mis'ess's niece is upon the top of the things, and she says that's enough that I've offered ye, you great miser, and she won't pay any more."
-- "I wish we were rich enough to pay a man to do these things," she said.
-- Oak found that the value of stock, plant, and implements which were really his own would be about sufficient to pay his debts, leaving himself a free man with the clothes he stood up in, and nothing more.
-- He calculated that he had walked a very fair proportion of the journey; and having been on foot since daybreak, he felt tempted to lie down upon the hay in the waggon instead of pushing on to the village of Weatherbury, and having to pay for a lodging.
-- observed a brisk young man Mark Clark by name, a genial and pleasant gentleman, whom to meet anywhere in your travels was to know, to know was to drink with, and to drink with was, unfortunately, to pay for.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Michonneau, could only muster forty-five francs a month to pay for their board and lodging.
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