support是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 支撑； 支持； 赡养； 维持n. 支持者； 支柱，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sure of your kind support and aid.'
-- Mr. Frank Churchill still declined it, looking as serious as he could, and his father gave his hearty support by calling out, 'My good friend, this is quite unnecessary; Frank knows a puddle of water when he sees it, and as to Mrs. Bates's, he may get there from the Crown in a hop, step, and jump.'
-- I shall be no support to Mrs. Weston.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
-- Was Bathsheba altogether blind to the obvious fact that the support of a lover's arms is not of a kind best calculated to assist a resolve to renounce him?
-- He had stuck his ricking-rod, or poniard, as it was indifferently called a long iron lance, polished by handling into the stack, used to support the sheaves instead of the support called a groom used on houses.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some oc-casions when I need them most to support my spirits.
-- But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould, and her courage rose to support her in her adversity.
-- She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
-- Oh!No mortal could support the horror of that coun-tenance.
-- Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ig-nominy and perdition.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chaperons' corner was intumult and Mrs. Meade, anxious to support her husband in an action of which she heartily disapproved, was at adisadvantage.
-- Aunt Pitty completely forgot that the sight of blood always made her faint and she worked until her littlefeet in their too small shoes swelled and would no longer support her.
-- She caught a fleeting glimpse of a head of red curls and saw that creature, Belle Watling, heard her shrill drunkenlaughter as she clung for support to a one-armed soldier who reeled and staggered.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His boast that he had made me a gentleman, and that he had come to see me support the character on his ample resources, was made for me quite as much as for himself.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not been there long before he began to feel so tired that his limbs seemed hardly able to support him, and he could not stand upright any longer; so again he lay down and fell fast asleep.
-- Then will I go forth and learn how to shudder, and then I shall, at any rate, understand one art which will support me.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three 16 Gulliver's Travelswho attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him.
-- 'Lastly, That, upon his solemn oath to observe all the above articles, the said man-mountain shall have a daily al-lowance of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 of our subjects, with free access to our royal person, and other marks of our favour.
-- Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and find-ing it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.
-- They observed by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was a carnivorous animal; yet most quadrupeds being an overmatch for me, and field mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imag-ine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails and other insects, which they offered, by many learned arguments, to evince that I could not possibly do.
-- I was struck with the utmost grief and despair at my master's discourse; and being unable to support the agonies I was under, I fell into a swoon at his feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He moved, to support her with his arm.
-- The only support on which I leaned, and the strength of which it seemed, and still does seem, impossible to question, has given way in an instant.
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