pension是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 养老金, 退休金; 给予养老金，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your mother says herself that she was left in the direst pov-erty, and would have died of starvation had it not been for Pavlicheff, who generously allowed her a yearly pension of six hundred roubles.
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：
-- And you must be aware that her mother has to raise money on her pension for the jour-ney.
-- Is she counting on what is left of her hundred and twenty roubles of pension when Afanasy Ivanovitch's debt is paid?
-- This uncle has got a capital of a thousand roubles, and he lives on his pension and has no need of that money.
-- And she is dreaming of a pension already, he-he-he!芒聙娄 A go-ahead lady!'
-- It needed the utmost delicacy, the greatest nicety, but she has managed things so that that fool, that conceited baggage, that provincial non-entity, simply because she is the widow of a major, and has come to try and get a pension and to fray out her skirts in the government offices, because at fifty she paints her face (everybody knows it) 芒聙娄 a creature like that did not think fit to come, and has not even answered the invitation, which the most ordinary good manners required!I can't under-stand why Pyotr Petrovitch has not come?
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- la Comtesse de l'Ambermesnil, a widow of six and thirty, who was awaiting the final settlement of her husband's affairs, and of another matter regarding a pension due to her as the wife of a general who had died "on the field of battle."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In consideration of this eminent public service, the Barnacle then in power had recommended the Crown to bestow a pension of two or three hundred a-year on his widow; to which the next Barnacle in power had added certain shady and sedate apartments in the Palaces at Hampton Court, where the old lady still lived, deploring the degeneracy of the times in company with several other old ladies of both sexes.
-- Of these, the first may have been that her son had never signified the smallest intention to ask her consent, or any mistrust of his ability to dispense with it; the second, that the pension bestowed upon her by a grateful country (and a Barnacle) would be freed from any little filial inroads, when her Henry should be married to the darling only child of a man in very easy circumstances; the third, that Henry's debts must clearly be paid down upon the altar-railing by his father-in-law.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No chance-child was he, for he could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, who lived hard by; his mother being a washerwoman, and his father a drunken soldier, discharged with a wooden leg, and a diurnal pension of twopence-halfpenny and an unstateable fraction.
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