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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now he will find the belle sauvage once more, and entertain her with his superior wisdom," laughed Birkin.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went down: I set him a stool by the fire, and offered him a quantity of good things: but he was sick and could eat little, and my attempts to entertain him were thrown away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will not say to you that we suggest this course in mercy (for, to tell you the truth, we do not entertain any regard for you), but it is a necessity to which we are reduced, and I recommend it to you as a matter of the very best policy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What opinion did you entertain of Maslova?"
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