charge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 要价; 控告, 指控; 冲锋; 充电，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.
-- When dinner was done, my master went out to his la-bourers, and, as I could discover by his voice and gesture, gave his wife strict charge to take care of me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he had it in charge from high authority to bring about the great public-office Millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth.
-- I am willing to take charge of you, Jupe, and to educate you, and provide for you.
-- Or, perhaps, you are not unprepared for the announcement I have it in charge to make?'
-- 'Please to remember that I have a charge here,' said Mrs. Sparsit, with her air of state.
-- 'What a stranger can want at the Bank at this time of the evening, unless he comes upon some business for which he is too late, I don't know,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'but I hold a charge in this establishment from Mr. Bounderby, and I will never shrink from it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Hans," he continued, "you will take charge of the tools and some of the provisions; you, Harry, must take possession of another third of the provisions and of the arms.
-- Hans took charge of the tools, I of the arms.
-- My uncle had charge of one of the Ruhmkorff coils, I had possession of the other.
-- At midnight, our work as miners was completely finished; the charge of fulminating cotton was thrust into the hollow, and the match, which we had made of considerable length, was ready.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This caused her to turn back again in the act of going out, and to present herself and her charge before him.
-- He burst into tears of maudlin pity for himself, and at length suffering her to embrace him and take charge of him, let his grey head rest against her cheek, and bewailed his wretchedness.
-- He has handed me the keys of all his books and papers here they are jingling in this pocket and the only charge he has given me is "Let Mr Clennam have the means of putting himself on a perfect equality with me as to knowing whatever I know.
-- When dinner-time came, Flora drew the arm of her new charge through hers, and led her down-stairs, and presented her to the Patriarch and Mr Pancks, who were already in the dining-room waiting to begin.
-- Mrs Gowan glanced at the other end of the room, where her son was playing ecarte on a sofa, with the old lady who was for a charge of cavalry.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fill to this mark, and your charge is but a penny; to this a penny more; and so on to the full glass the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp down for a shilling.
-- But even granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers return to drink in all ladies' plaudits?
-- Having impulsively, it is probable, and perhaps somewhat prematurely revealed the prime but private purpose of the Pequod's voyage, Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing, he had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command.
-- Go and gaze upon all the paintings of Europe, and where will you find such a gallery of living and breathing commotion on canvas, as in that triumphal hall at Versailles; where the beholder fights his way, pell-mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, and the successive armed kings and Emperors dash by, like a charge of crowned centaurs?
-- I should like to conclude the chapter with the above appeal, but cannot, owing to my anxiety to repel a charge often made against whalemen, and which, in the estimation of some already biased minds, might be considered as indirectly substantiated by what has been said of the Frenchman's two whales.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed Mr. Bumble, stopping short, and darting at his little charge a look of intense malignity.
-- 'Now,' said Fang, 'what's the charge against this boy?
-- 'A nice person to prefer a charge against a poor boy!'
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