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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This bringing us into conversation, he was so good as to entertain me with my own story,--of course with the popular feature that Pumblechook was my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortunes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emperor had a mind one day to entertain me with several of the country shows, wherein they exceed all nations I have known, both for dexterity and magnificence.
-- And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by cham-bermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
-- I now began to be weary, and seeing nothing to entertain my curiosity, I returned gently down towards the creek; and the sea being full in my view, I saw our men al-ready got into the boat, and rowing for life to the ship.
-- A fancy came into my head, that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
-- He said, 'he knew no reason why those, who entertain opinions prejudicial to the pub-lic, should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER X. STEPHEN BLACKPOOLI entertain a weak idea that the English people are as hard-worked as any people upon whom the sun shines.
-- The result of the varieties of boredom I have undergone, is a conviction (unless conviction is too industrious a word for the lazy sentiment I entertain on the subject), that any set of ideas will do just as much good as any other set, and just as much harm as any other set.
-- 'Calling at the Bank yesterday evening, for Mr. Bounderby's address, I found an ancient lady there, who seems to entertain great admiration for your sister,' observed Mr. James Harthouse, throwing away the last small remnant of the cigar he had now smoked out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Insensate folly and madness to entertain even a shadow of hope!
-- I entertain a very different opinion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Leslie Winter was attached to Clifford, but personally did not entertain a great respect for him, because of the photographs in illus-trated papers and the literature.
-- If I had sons of my own, no doubt they would have up-to-date ideas for Shipley: no doubt!By the way, dear boy, is there any foundation to the rumour that we may entertain hopes of an heir to Wragby?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, for all that, she now began to entertain a settled conviction that there was something wrong in the gloomy house.
-- He believed that Mr Meagles was disposed to entertain a ripe regard for him, and he knew that he had a sincere regard for Mr Meagles and his good wife.
-- We'll entertain him as well as we can, in our humble way; and we shall not starve him, I hope, at all events.'
-- 'Henry,' the mother resumed, 'is self-willed and resolute; and as these people naturally strain every nerve to catch him, I can entertain very little hope, Mr Clennam, that the thing will be broken off.
-- But as her father when they had been to a brilliant reception at Mrs Merdle's, harped at their own family breakfast-table on his wish to know Mr Merdle, with the contingent view of benefiting by the advice of that wonderful man in the disposal of his fortune, she began to think it had a real meaning, and to entertain a curiosity on her own part to see the shining light of the time.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They shopped, walked, rode, and called all day, went to theaters and operas or frolicked at home in the evening, for Annie had many friends and knew how to entertain them.
-- So Meg gave her the easy chair and tried to entertain her, while she asked questions, critsized everything, and told stories of the people whom she knew.
-- An enthusiastic welcome from three big boys and sev-eral pretty children speedily soothed her ruffled feelings, and leaving Amy to entertain the hostess and Mr. Tudor, who happened to be calling likewise, Jo devoted herself to the young folks and found the change refreshing.
-- Amy was a model of docility, and as her aunt was a good deal oc-cupied with Flo, she was left to entertain her friend, and did it with more than her usual success.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver had been too often subjected to the process to which the very expressive monosyllable just recorded bears reference, to entertain the smallest doubt that the owner of the voice, whoever he might be, would redeem his pledge, most honourably.
-- This was, that the Dodger, and Charley Bates, and Fagin, and Mr. William Sikes, happened, one and all, to entertain a violent and deeply -rooted antipathy to going near a police-office on any ground or pretext whatever.
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