furnish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 用家具装备房子; 供应，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：
-- 10 Sons and Lovers 'Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Chris-tian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,' returned the gentleman, 'a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that's not all-- twenty years ago he would have found in that literature traces of conflict with authorities, with the creeds of the ages; he would have perceived from this conflict that there was something else; but now he comes at once upon a literature in which the old creeds do not even furnish matter for discussion, but it is stated baldly that there is nothing else--evolution, natural selection, struggle for existence--and that's all.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa, and tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky; and along the coasts swarmed by thousands the precious swallows whose nests furnish a luxurious dish to the tables of the Celestial Empire.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As we're putting up the money--I don't want to be a tightwad but after all, a dollar is a dollar--if we furnish the dough, we've got to decide the best way to spend it."
-- Mrs. Holabird, a white kitten of a woman, helped Leora find a three-room flat with a spacious living-room, in an old house near Gramercy Park, and helped her furnish it with good bits, second- hand.
-- And, "Oh, maybe it didn't cost something to furnish this dining- room, oh, not a-tall!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then proposed to theReverend Horace- who is a most excellent clergyman, Copperfield,and ought to be a Bishop; or at least ought to have enough to liveupon, without pinching himself- that if I could turn the corner, sayof two hundred and fifty pounds, in one year; and could see myway pretty clearly to that, or something better, next year; and couldplainly furnish a little place like this, besides; then, and in that case,Sophy and I should be united.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not be persuaded that so many good-looking houses as he saw around him, could not furnish numbers enough for such a meeting; and even when particulars 240 Emmawere given and families described, he was still unwilling to admit that the inconvenience of such a mixture would be any thing, or that there would be the smallest difficulty in every body's returning into their proper place the next morning.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mantle of ivy conceals the bricks and attracts the eyes of passers-by to an effect which is picturesque in Paris, for each of the walls is covered with trellised vines that yield a scanty dusty crop of fruit, and furnish besides a subject of conversation for Mme.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went to the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then bade the landlord furnish him a room as hand-some as possible.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore the room where company meet who practise this art, is full of all things, ready at hand, requisite to furnish matter for this kind of artificial converse.
-- The two gentlemen, and some others, were so generous and kind as to furnish me with provisions, and see me on board.
-- I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could eas-ily furnish me with.
-- He said 'that must needs be a miserable coun-try which cannot furnish food for its own inhabitants.
-- My design was, if possible, to discover some small is-land uninhabited, yet sufficient, by my labour, to furnish me with the necessaries of life, which I would have thought a greater happiness, than to be first minister in the polit-est court of Europe; so horrible was the idea I conceived of returning to live in the society, and under the govern- 363ment of Yahoos.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared in short, it was the only clear thing in the case that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; that they were restless, gentlemen; that they never knew what they wanted; that they lived upon the best, and bought fresh butter; and insisted on Mocha coffee, and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything was bolted and barred that could by possibility furnish relief to an overworked people.
-- 'Any little sticks a coming to furnish it?'
-- 'Yes, sir; yes, I want it of you,' said Pancks, 'if I can persuade you to furnish it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mary Kinglsey insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, like many inland reapers and mowers, who go into the farmers' meadows armed with their own scythes though in no wise obliged to furnish them even so, Queequeg, for his own private reasons, preferred his own harpoon.
-- Meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves.
-- They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
-- For though some old naturalists have maintained that all creatures of the land are of their kind in the sea; and though taking a broad general view of the thing, this may very well be; yet coming to specialties, where, for example, does the ocean furnish any fish that in disposition answers to the sagacious kindness of the dog?
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