provide是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 供应， 供给， 准备， 预防， 规定，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A tremendous family to provide for.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Provide somebody to take care of you.
-- If I, as a honest tradesman, am able to provide a little beer, none of your declaring on water.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I intend to get be-trothed, for I can provide for more than one family.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's both," he said resolutely: "I don't see that it was possible..." "What!was it impossible, if the money were properly laid out, to provide medical aid?"
-- "Impossible, as it seems to me.... For the three thousand square miles of our district, what with our thaws, and the storms, and the work in the fields, I don't see how it is possible to provide medical aid all over.
-- The prince's manner of treating the very people who, to Vronsky's surprise, were ready to descend to any depths to provide him with Russian amusements, was contemptuous.
-- Already he saw himself a deceived husband, looked upon by his wife and her lover as simply necessary to provide them with the conveniences and pleasures of life....
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No doubt," replied the conductor; "but the passengers know that they must provide means of transportation for themselves from Kholby to Allahabad."
-- The greater part of the travellers were aware of this interruption, and, leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could provide four-wheeled palkigharis, waggons drawn by zebus, carriages that looked like perambulating pagodas, palanquins, ponies, and what not.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every university faculty must have a Wild Man to provide thrills and to shock crowded lecture- rooms.
-- Make money--not be commercial, of course, but provide Leora with comforts.
-- When Gottlieb sought to make it clear that he was a poor man, the boy answered that out of his poverty he was always sneakingly spending money on his researches--he had no right to do that and shame his son--let the confounded University provide him with material!
-- He replied that while he could see the value of basic research, the medical school belonged to the people of the state, and its task was to provide them with immediate and practical attention.
-- You would, of course, have absolute freedom as to what researches you thought it best to pursue, and I think we could provide as good assistance and material as would be obtainable anywhere in the world.
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：
-- He'll begin to brood, he'll weave a tangle round himself, he'll worry himself to death!What's more he will provide me with a mathematical proof if I only give him long enough interval芒聙娄.
-- Oh, the scoundrels, the scoundrels!But enough of them, now I'll provide for the children myself, I won't bow down to any-body!She has had to bear enough for us!'
-- I charmed the old lady by depositing a sum of money with her to provide for the three children of Kat-erina Ivanovna and subscribing to the institution as well.
-- To the decisive question as to what motive impelled him 746 Crime and Punishmentto the murder and the robbery, he answered very clearly with the coarsest frankness that the cause was his miser-able position, his poverty and helplessness, and his desire to provide for his first steps in life by the help of the three thousand roubles he had reckoned on finding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt finished eating the piece of toast on which she was thenengaged, looking me full in the face all the while; and then settingher glass on the chimney-piece, and folding her hands upon herfolded skirts, replied as follows'Trot, my child, if I have any objectin life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and ahappy man.
-- Miss Trotwood was good enough tomention that she had a nephew who was her peculiar care, and forwhom she was seeking to provide genteelly in life.
-- I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could nothave enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it.
-- 'I'll provide for her, sir!'
-- But I'll provide for her!I neverspend the copying money.
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