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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Helena invited the horsemen of the party to pay her a visit in turns, as her reception-room was but small, and in pleasant converse with this amiable woman they forgot the fatigue of their day's ride.
-- I would pay its weight in gold for a raft which would carry us over to the other side."
-- Glenarvan, therefore, was fully prepared to pay the penalty of the righteous indignation that nerved his arm, but he hoped that the wrath of Kai-Koumou would not extend beyond himself.
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：
-- With his brutal and violent nature, others would have to pay the price if we held our hands.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Of course I can't argue the matter, because I know only my own case; but my doctor gave me money and he had very little to pay my jour-ney back, besides having kept me at his own expense, while there, for nearly two years.'
-- Was there no one else to pay for you?'
-- 'I have not much time for making acquaintances, as a rule,' said the general, 'but as, of course, you have your ob-ject in coming, I ' 'I felt sure you would think I had some object in view when I resolved to pay you this visit,' the prince interrupt-ed; 'but I give you my word, beyond the pleasure of making your acquaintance I had no personal object whatever.'
-- We shall see, we shall see!I shall pay her out for this.'
-- 'Shall you pay here?'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had been tacitly understood beforehand that she was to get work and pay her board.
-- She had invited Carrie, not because she longed for her presence, but because the latter was dissatisfied at home, and could probably get work and pay her board here.
-- "How much do you pay a week?"
-- It would pay the rent and would make the subject of expenditure a little less difficult to talk about with her husband.
-- She knew that she was to pay four dollars for her board and room, and now she felt that it would be an exceedingly gloomy round, living with these people.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, o' course dat nigger want' to keep me out er de business, bekase he says dey warn't business 'nough for two banks, so he say I could put in my five dollars en he pay me thirty-five at de en' er de year.
-- Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.
-- Now if you'll go and ' 'By Jackson, I'd LIKE to, and, blame it, I don't know but I will; but who in the dingnation's a-going' to PAY for it?
-- And he had got in ten dollars' worth of advertisements for the paper, which he said he would put in for four dollars if they would pay in advance so they done it.
-- The price of the paper was two dollars a year, but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on con- dition of them paying him in advance; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual, but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it, and was going to run it for cash.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 9 Pinocchio sells his A-B-C book to pay his way into the Marionette Theater.
-- "And how much does one pay to get in?"
-- "Did they pay for the supper?"
-- "This is our plan: We'll come once in a while, as in the past, to pay a visit to this henhouse, and we'll take away eight chickens.
-- If you study and we don't, we pay for it.
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