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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only trust the hopes we are leading you to entertain may be realized, but till my husband returns, you will remain at the Castle."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He added that the sum would have been left her all the same in his will, and that therefore she must not consider the gift as in any way an indemnification to her for anything, but that there was no reason, after all, why a man should not be allowed to entertain a natural desire to lighten his conscience, etc., etc.
-- 'Besides, he's quite a child; we can entertain him with a little hide-and-seek, in case of need,' said Adelaida.
-- It is terrible to have to entertain people who do things on such a scale.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have every-thing at your disposal wherewith to entertain guests, and you have many subjects.
-- If, then, Thetis has come to my house I must make her due requital for having saved me; entertain her, therefore, with all hospitality, while I put by my bellows and all my tools.'
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：
-- In passing his gentler companions Heyward uttered a few words of encouragement, and was pleased to find that, though fatigued with the exercise of the day, they appeared to entertain no suspicion that their present em-barrassment was other than the result of accident.
-- The politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts of ill-judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever she went out and compassion for her misadventure made her friends eager to entertain her she bore a demeanour that was perfect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the truth must be told, even Mr Swiveller's approaches to the single gentleman were of a very distant kind, and met with small encouragement; but, as he never returned from a monosyllabic conference with the unknown, without quoting such expressions as 'Swiveller, I know I can rely upon you,' 'I have no hesitation in saying, Swiveller, that I entertain a regard for you,' 'Swiveller, you are my friend, and will stand by me I am sure,' with many other short speeches of the same familiar and confiding kind, purporting to have been addressed by the single gentleman to himself, and to form the staple of their ordinary discourse, neither Mr Brass nor Miss Sally for a moment questioned the extent of his influence, but accorded to him their fullest and most unqualified belief.
-- cried the jealous dwarf, 'What's this!Do they entertain visitors while I'm away!'
-- The whole of which appearances were so unexpected and bewildering, that Mr Swiveller, when he had taken two oranges and a little jelly, and had seen the strong man walk off with the empty basket, plainly leaving all that abundance for his use and benefit, was fain to lie down and fall asleep again, from sheer inability to entertain such wonders in his mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one, that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting--to put entirely out of the question, a very thick coating of powder.
-- The dog no doubt heard; because Mr. Sikes spoke in the very harshest key of a very harsh voice; but, appearing to entertain some unaccountable objection to having his throat cut, he remained where he was, and growled more fiercely than before: at the same time grasping the end of the poker between his teeth, and biting at it like a wild beast.
-- As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song; which having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was generally evident whenever they met, that he DID admire her and to HER it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent.
-- He listened to her with perfect indifference while she chose to entertain herself in this manner; and as his com-posure convinced her that all was safe, her wit flowed long.
-- I re-ally do not think Georgiana Darcy has her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments; and the affection she in-spires in Louisa and myself is heightened into something still more interesting, from the hope we dare entertain of her being hereafter our sister.
-- 'I shall not say you are mistaken,' he replied, 'because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquain-tance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.'
-- They lagged behind, while Elizabeth, Kitty, and Darcy were to entertain each other.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this seemed inconsistent with the thing itself and with all the notions we usually entertain of the subtlety of the devil.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 21The Palmers returned to Cleveland the next day, and the two families at Barton were again left to entertain each other.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was much to ponder over, and sufficed to entertain her for more than a year without becoming stale.
-- Young Mr. So-and-So would entertain a party of friends at a private luncheon on the sixteenth, at Sherry's.
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