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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The torrents provide them with water in the mountains, and the rivulets in the plains, which they improve by the addition of a few drops of rum, and each man carries a supply of this in a bullock's horn, called CHIFFLE.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ev-eryone inquired for them, everybody wanted them; and a grand lot of camellias are to be got in a country town as you all know and two balls to provide for!
-- But when he also died, the orphan was left to provide for himself, his mother now being an invalid who had lost the use of her limbs.
-- Our readers will think, no doubt, that he would say to himself: 'P showered benefits upon me all my life; he spent tens of thousands of roubles to educate me, to provide me with governesses, and to keep me un-der treatment in Switzerland.
-- How, then, could they provide for themselves, and when had they time to plough and sow their fields?
-- No, the question is now, excellency, I believe, to sit down to the banquet you are about to provide for us!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell him everything; as for me, I will go to the cunning work-man Vulcan on high Olympus, and ask him to provide my son with a suit of splendid armour.'
-- Therefore I am suppliant at your knees if haply you may be pleased to provide my son, whose end is near at hand, with helmet and shield, with goodly greaves fitted with ancle-clasps, and with a breastplate, for he lost his own when his true comrade fell at the hands of the Trojans, and he now lies stretched on earth in the bitterness of his soul.'
-- Now, there-fore, let us do all that this sad festival demands, but at break of day, King Agamemnon, bid your men bring wood, and provide all else that the dead may duly take into the realm of darkness; the fire shall thus burn him out of our sight the sooner, and the people shall turn again to their own la-bours.'
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：
-- A hunter would be her com-panion, who knew how to provide for her smallest wants; and a warrior was at her side who was able to protect he against every danger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people who have been better off, and have paid rates for many years, are the first to sink when they come into the house; and let me tell you, Mr. Bumble, that three or four inches over one's calculation makes a great hole in one's profits: especially when one has a family to provide for, sir.'
-- This unexpected offer of shelter was too tempting to be resisted; especially as it was immediately followed up, by the assurance that the old gentleman referred to, would doubtless provide Oliver with a comfortable place, without loss of time.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He meant to provide for me amply, and thought he had done it; but when the living fell, it was given else- where.'
-- My dearest Lizzy, do but consider in what a disgraceful light it places Mr. Darcy, to be treating his father's favourite in such a manner, one whom his father had promised to provide for.
-- My father was not only fond of this young man's society, whose manner were always engag-ing; he had also the highest opinion of him, and hoping the church would be his profession, intended to provide for him in it.
-- He had found the law a most unprofitable study, and was now absolutely resolved on being ordained, if I would present him to the living in question of which he trusted there could be little doubt, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's in-tentions.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having now fixed my habitation, I found it absolutely necessary to provide a place to make a fire in, and fuel to burn: and what I did for that, and also how I enlarged my cave, and what conveniences I made, I shall give a full ac-count of in its place; but I must now give some little account of myself, and of my thoughts about living, which, it may well be supposed, were not a few.
-- and that now I had all these to suf-ficient quantity, and was in a fair way to provide myself in such a manner as to live without my gun, when my ammu-nition was spent: so that I had a tolerable view of subsisting, without any want, as long as I lived; for I considered from the beginning how I would provide for the accidents that might happen, and for the time that was to come, even not only after my ammunition should be spent, but even after my health and strength should decay.
-- The rainy season and the dry season began now to appear regular to me, and I learned to divide them so as to provide for them accordingly; but I bought all my experience before I had it, and this I am going to relate was one of the most discouraging experiments that I made.
-- Upon the whole, I found that the forty bushels of barley and rice were much more than I could consume in a year; so I resolved to sow just the same quantity every year that I sowed the last, in hopes that such a quantity would fully provide me with bread, &c. All the while these things were doing, you may be sure my thoughts ran many times upon the prospect of land which I had seen from the other side of the island; and I was not without secret wishes that I were on shore there, fancy-ing that, seeing the mainland, and an inhabited country, I might find some way or other to convey myself further, and perhaps at last find some means of escape.
-- I began now to consider, that having two mouths to feed instead of one, I must provide more ground for my harvest, and plant a larger quantity of corn than I used to do; so I marked out a larger piece of land, and began the fence in the same manner as before, in which Friday worked not only very willingly and very hard, but did it very cheerfully: and I told him what it was for; that it was for corn to make more bread, because he was now with me, and that I might have enough for him and myself too.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To be sure," continued Lucy, after a few minutes silence on both sides, "his mother must provide for him sometime or other; but poor Edward is so cast down by it!Did you not think him dreadful low-spirited when he was at Barton?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not mind giving his family a fair share of all that he earned, but he did not like to be forced to provide against his will.
-- It consisted of securing a bed for all such homeless wayfarers as should apply to him at this particular spot, though he had scarcely the wherewithal to provide a comfortable habitation for himself.
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