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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me tell you and it shall surely be he shall pay for this insolence with his life.'
-- If Alexandrus kills Menelaus, let him keep Helen and all her wealth, while we sail home with our ships; but if Menelaus kills Alexandrus, let the Trojans give back Helen and all that she has; let them moreover pay such fine to the Achae-ans as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among those that shall be born hereafter.
-- The victory has been with Menelaus; therefore give back Helen with all her wealth, and pay such fine as shall be agreed upon, in testi-mony among them that shall be born hereafter.'
-- If he that rules Olympus fulfil it not here and now, he will yet fulfil it hereafter, and they shall pay dearly with their lives and with their wives and children.
-- Therefore he was named Simoeisius, but he did not live to pay his parents for his rearing, for he was cut off untimely by the spear of mighty Ajax, who struck him in the breast by the right nipple as he was coming on among the fore-most fighters; the spear went right through his shoulder, and he fell as a poplar that has grown straight and tall in a meadow by some mere, and its top is thick with branches.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the Law does not say who may or may not pay that price.
-- 'Then, by the Bull that bought me, I will pay Shere Khan full tale for this, and it may be a little over,' said Mowgli, and he bounded away.
-- But here is a debt to pay before I go.'
-- I have some skill in these [he held out his hands], and if ever thou art in a trap, I may pay the debt which I owe to thee, to Bagheera, and to Baloo, here.
-- 'The Govern-ment may pay for elephants, but they belong to us mahouts.
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：
-- 'Consider,' continued Cora, after a pause, during which she seemed to struggle with a pang even more acute than any that her fears had excited, 'that the worst to us can be but death; a tribute that all must pay at the good time of God's appointment.'
-- Then we rallied behind our fallen trees, and made head against him, under Sir Wil-liam who was made Sir William for that very deed; and well did we pay him for the disgrace of the morning!Hun-dreds of Frenchmen saw the sun that day for the last time; and even their leader, Dieskau himself, fell into our hands, so cut and torn with the lead, that he has gone back to his own country, unfit for further acts in war.'
-- We must, then, turn in our trail and get without the line of their lookouts, when we will bend short to the west, and enter the mountains; where I can hide you, so that all the devil's hounds in Montcalm's pay would be thrown off the scent for months to come.'
-- 'She did, indeed,' said the old man, 'and dearly did she pay for the blessing she bestowed.
-- 'I would not leave you alone,' continued the youth, look-ing about him in a hurried manner, 'for the command of the best regiment in the pay of the king.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever money the schoolmaster possessed, and he had received his quar-ter's pay but a day or two before, he must have had about his person at the time of his disappearance.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it comes to the point, the MacAndrews will pay for their schooling."
-- "Wouldn't it make you uncomfortable if I went and hanged myself because I'd been turned out of my room as I couldn't pay the rent?"
-- When he had finished I called the waiter to pay for the drinks, and left them.
-- She never turned her customers out of her house because they did not pay their bills.
-- She always hoped they would pay when they could.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was impossible to think of those animals in an alimentary point of view, for their oily flesh is detestable; however, Cyrus Harding observed them attentively, and without making known his idea, he announced to his companions that very soon they would pay a visit to the islet.
-- "I knew that it was only a joke," cried Pencroft; "but one of the jokers shall pay the penalty for the rest."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked past the house, and took several turns in the street, with that kind of hesitation which is natural to a man who is conscious that the visit he is about to pay is unexpected, and may not be very acceptable.
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