entertain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 招待， 款待； 使娱乐； 使欢乐； 容纳， 接受，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
-- We have oftentimes the honour to entertain 24 A tale of two citiesyour gentlemen in their travelling backwards and forwards betwixt London and Paris, sir.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'll ask Koznishev and Pestsov, so as to entertain him with our Moscow celebrities."
-- "You go to them, darling," said Kitty to her sister, "and entertain them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Frequently he sought to entertain other guests by urging, "Come on now, Mart, let's hear some of those crazy ideas of yours!"
-- He had almost recovered from the anxieties of Winnemac and the Hunziker factory; he had begun to expand, to entertain people-- scientists, musicians, talkers.
-- "Wouldn't be so bad to be able to entertain people there.
-- His triumph over Holabird was less than being able to entertain Angus Duer and his wife, on from Chicago; to introduce them to Director Holabird, to Salamon the king of surgeons, and to a medical baronet; and to have Angus gush, "Mart, do you mind my saying we're all awfully proud of you?
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：
-- He was particularly irritated by the owner of the flat which had been taken in view of his approaching marriage and was being redecorated at his own expense; the owner, a rich German tradesman, would not entertain the idea of break-ing the contract which had just been signed and insisted on the full forfeit money, though Pyotr Petrovitch would be giving him back the flat practically redecorated.
-- You will admit that recollect-ing your embarrassment, your eagerness to get away and the fact that you kept your hands for some time on the table, and taking into consideration your social position and the habits associated with it, I was, so to say, with horror and positively against my will, compelled to entertain a suspi-cion a cruel, but justifiable suspicion!I will add further and repeat that in spite of my positive conviction, I realise that I run a certain risk in making this accusation, but as you see, I could not let it pass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on ouraccount, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer.
-- A certain man named Gregory, who was foreman of thepackers, and another named Tipp, who was the carman, and worea red jacket, used to address me sometimes as 'David': but I think itwas mostly when we were very confidential, and when I had madesome efforts to entertain them, over our work, with some results ofthe old readings; which were fast perishing out of myremembrance.
-- I had not the least belief, in the outset of this story, that theunknown was anything but a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and one ofthe line of that ill-fated Prince who occasioned him so muchdifficulty; but after some reflection I began to entertain thequestion whether an attempt, or threat of an attempt, might havebeen twice made to take poor Mr. Dick himself from under myaunt's protection, and whether my aunt, the strength of whose kindfeeling towards him I knew from herself, might have been inducedto pay a price for his peace and quiet.
-- 381CHAPTER XXVIIIMr. Micawber's GauntletUNTIL the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found old friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee.
-- 'I entertain the conviction, my dear madam,' said Mr. Micawber,'that it is, under existing circumstances, the land, the only land, formyself and family; and that something of an extraordinary naturewill turn up on that shore.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma will be happy to entertain you.
-- Chapter XVMr. Woodhouse was soon ready for his tea; and when he had drank his tea he was quite ready to go home; and it was as much as his three companions could do, to entertain away his notice of the lateness of the hour, before the other gentlemen appeared.
-- 318 EmmaChapter XIIIEmma continued to entertain no doubt of her being in love.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After breakfast she was cool and collected quite herself in fact and she rambled to the gate, intending to walk to another quarter of the farm, which she still personally superintended as well as her duties in the house would permit, continually, however, finding herself preceded in forethought by Gabriel Oak, for whom she began to entertain the genuine friendship of a sister.
-- I've been a rake, and the single point I ask you is, considering that my own scruples, and the fact that in the eye of the law my husband is only missing, will keep any man from marrying me until seven years have passed am I free to entertain such an idea, even though 'tis a sort of penance for it will be that?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as brother and sister often entertain a lively affection towards each other without desiring a more intimate union, may not such also be our case?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The master refusing to entertain the subject until the journeyman was in a better temper, Orlick plunged at the furnace, drew out a red-hot bar, made at me with it as if he were going to run it through my body, whisked it round my head, laid it on the anvil, hammered it out,--as if it were I, I thought, and the sparks were my spirting blood,--and finally said, when he had hammered himself hot and the iron cold, and he again leaned on his hammer,--"Now, master!"
-- I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.
-- I had leisure to entertain the retort in my mind, while he slowly lifted his heavy glance from the pavement, up my legs and arms, to my face.
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