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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Frank Churchill to be making such a speech as that to the uncle and aunt, who have brought him up, and are to provide for him! Standing up in the middle of the room, I suppose, and speaking as loud as he could! How can you imagine such conduct practicable?'
-- To provide for her otherwise was out of Colonel Campbell's power; for though his income, by pay and appointments, was handsome, his fortune was moderate and must be all his daughter's; but, by giving her an education, he hoped to be supplying the means of respectable subsistence here-after.
-- You provide for the family, you know, (with a smile at his father).
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- God didn't provide 'em with victuals as well as drink, and 'twas a drawback I couldn't get over at all."
-- (We believe that they do these things more tenderly now, and provide a plate.)
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the mean-time he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
-- One inscription that he left was in these words: 'Prepare!Your toils only begin; wrap yourself in furs and provide food, for we shall soon enter upon a journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett would have given anything to be able to provide the rest of the uniform, but thenecessary materials were simply not to be had in Atlanta.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length he said to the maiden: 'I will go home to my own country; if you will go with me, I will provide for you.'
-- cried they; 'we cannot find food for you any longer; you are big enough, and can provide for yourselves.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- Her majesty said, if I would contrive a boat, her own joiner should make it, and she would provide a place for me to sail in.
-- I discovered my admiration that I had not observed any of these illustrious persons at court; the black spot on the forehead being so remarkable a distinction, that I could not have easily overlooked it: and it was impossible that his 262 Gulliver's Travelsmajesty, a most judicious prince, should not provide him-self with a good number of such wise and able counsellors.
-- Where any of these wanted fortunes, I would provide them with convenient lodges round my own estate, and have some of them always at my table; only mingling a few of the most valuable among you mortals, whom length of time would harden me to lose with little or no reluctance, and treat your posterity after the same manner; just as a man diverts himself with the annual succession of pinks and tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss of those which withered the preceding year.
-- When I was a little refreshed, I went up into the country, resolving to deliv-er myself to the first savages I should meet, and purchase my life from them by some bracelets, glass rings, and other toys, which sailors usually provide themselves with in those voyages, and whereof I had some about me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am willing to take charge of you, Jupe, and to educate you, and provide for you.
-- Since you are of opinion that she ought to have what she wants, I recommend you to provide it for her.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Mrs Flint would provide a clue.
-- Poor mountains!poor land-scape!it all had to be squeezed and squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I provide you with valuable assistance to do it.
-- Mrs Merdle had written to this magnificent spouse of hers, whom it was heresy to regard as anything less than all the British Merchants since the days of Whittington rolled into one, and gilded three feet deep all over had written to this spouse of hers, several letters from Rome, in quick succession, urging upon him with importunity that now or never was the time to provide for Edmund Sparkler.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm the oldest,' began Meg, but Jo cut in with a decided, 'I'm the man of the family now Papa is away, and I shall provide the slippers, for he told me to take special care of Mother while he was gone.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before showing that picture to any Nantucketer, you had best provide for your summary retreat from Nantucket.
-- This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to the distrusted one in use.
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