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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane Wackles, who in all the glory of her curls was holding a flirtation, (as good practice when no better was to be had) with a feeble old gentleman who lodged in the parlour.
-- Nell dropped a curtsey, and told him they were poor travellers who sought a shelter for the night which they would gladly pay for, so far as their means allowed.
-- As they would leave the house very early in the morning, the child was anxious to pay for their entertainment before they retired to bed.
-- 'Yes, Sir, indeed,' returned Dick, yielding to his destiny and saying whatever came uppermost; 'an equal quantity of slumber was never got out of one bed and bedstead, and if you're going to sleep in that way, you must pay for a double-bedded room.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was soon installed in the house of a forester who was married, and who, like the commissary, began to pay court to her.
-- He was telling them of the remarkable turn given to the probable result of the case by the dexterity of a famous lawyer, by which an old lady, who was in the right, would be obliged to pay an enormous sum to the adverse side.
-- "Thirty kopecks--I never pay more."
-- And he devised a scheme by which he was to give the land to the people, and they were to pay an annual rent which was to go to the community, to be used for common utilities and taxes.
-- Nekhludoff continued, saying that the income from the land should be distributed among all, and he therefore proposed that they take the land and pay into the common treasury such rent as they may decide upon, such money to be used for their own benefit.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears.
-- I knew that both I and Weena were lost, but I determined to make the Morlocks pay for their meat.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But by this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular notice to the song; it was new, that night, to nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up for a moment quite angrily before he went on with his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure for the rheumatics.
-- "If he were Admiral Hawke he shall pay his score," cried Silver; and then, relinquishing my hand, "Who did you say he was?"
-- Now, however, when I had nothing else to do, I began to pay more heed.
-- I think it most probable though of course it's only an opinion that you'll all have the deuce to pay before you get that malaria out of your systems.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Immensely rich, sir; and I could, without missing it, pay the national debt of France."
-- Shells are all right-handed, with rare exceptions; and, when by chance their spiral is left, amateurs are ready to pay their weight in gold.
-- "Good!For the future I shall pay attention," replied the Canadian.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the men stood in calm little groups, chatting, smoking, pretending to pay no heed to the rustling animation of the women's world.
-- He knew his mother would pay no attention to her duties.
-- I pay part of the rent of a flat, and stop there when I like."
-- "It seems to me the right thing to do, you know, with the Pussums, is to pay them."
-- They were giving out, it did not pay to work the seams.
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