linger是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 逗留, 徘徊; 动作迟缓; 苟延残喘，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：
-- I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.
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：
-- Chapter 8 'They linger yet, Avengers of their native land.
-- Why linger to add to the number of the victims of our merciless enemies?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
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：
-- But some curiosity and even a sort of prudence made him linger for a moment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, as the three go onarm-in-arm, and I linger behind alone, I follow some of thoselooks, and wonder if my mother's step be really not so light as Ihave seen it, and if the gaiety of her beauty be really almostworried away.
-- And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet,these faces fade away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us wander barefoot through the world, rather than linger here.'
-- She had taken leave of her grandfather and was returning to the other waggon, when she was tempted by the coolness of the night to linger for a little while in the air.
-- And let me linger in this place, for an instant, to remark that if ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Genteel strangers, whose god was their town, who might happen to be compelled to linger about this nook for a day, heard the sound of light wheels, and prayed to see good society, to the degree of a solitary lord, or squire at the very least, but it was only Mr. Boldwood going out for the day.
-- Coming out of church that day she looked round in hope that Oak, whose bass voice she had heard rolling out from the gallery overhead in a most unconcerned manner, might chance to linger in her path in the old way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Did she linger long, Joe?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sud-denly a voice cried: 'Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murderers' lair.'
-- Again it cried: 'Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murderers' lair.'
-- 'I went alone through a forest and came at last to a house; not a soul could I find within, but a bird that was hanging in a cage on the wall cried: 'Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, 136 Grimms' Fairy Tales Linger not in this murderers' lair.'
-- Again he was the only one who caught the apple, and he did not linger an instant, but galloped off with it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they were all going out again, he favoured her with one slight roll of his movable eye, desiring her to linger behind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arthur Clennam would have been little disposed to linger in bed, though his bed had been in a more private situation, and less affected by the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brooms and dishcloths never could be as distasteful as they once had been, for Beth had presided over both, and something of her housewifely spirit seemed to linger around the little mop and the old brush, never thrown away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here he walked even faster than before; nor did he linger until he had again turned into a court; when, as if conscious that he was now in his proper element, he fell into his usual shuffling pace, and seemed to breathe more freely.
-- Oh!who could hope, when the distant world to which she was akin, half opened to her view, that she would return to the sorrow and calamity of this!Rose, Rose, to know that you were passing away like some soft shadow, which a light from above, casts upon the earth; to have no hope that you would be spared to those who linger here; hardly to know a reason why you should be; to feel that you belonged to that bright sphere whither so many of the fairest and the best have winged their early flight; and yet to pray, amid all these consolations, that you might be restored to those who loved you--these were distractions almost too great to bear.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was broken by Willoughby, who said with a faint smile, "It is folly to linger in this manner.
-- She put it into her hands as she spoke; and when Elinor saw the painting, whatever other doubts her fear of a too hasty decision, or her wish of detecting falsehood might suffer to linger in her mind, she could have none of its being Edward's face.
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