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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rope fastened above, near the surface, would certainly support our weight and enable us to reach the bottom, but how, when we had arrived at its utmost depth, were we to loosen it above?
-- I feared that the upper support would fail me.
-- It was simply impossible if even I could have hoped for the support of Hans.
-- Then I felt all solid support give way not to my feet, but to the raft itself.
-- Those few ill-joined beams offered, anyway, a solid surface--a support which elsewhere must have utterly failed us.
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：
-- A man needed support arid com-fort.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been a very indifferent musical amateur in his better days; and when he fell with his brother, resorted for support to playing a clarionet as dirty as himself in a small Theatre Orchestra.
-- A good girl, sir, a dear girl, and long a comfort and support to me.
-- At length, in course of time, Maggy began to take pains to improve herself, and to be very attentive and very industrious; and by degrees was allowed to come in and out as often as she liked, and got enough to do to support herself, and does support herself.
-- 'Please to sit down again, Sir, and consider yourself welcome. Why, yes,' said Plornish, taking a chair, and lifting the elder child upon his knee, that he might have the moral support of speaking to a stranger over his head, 'I have been on the wrong side of the Lock myself, and in that way we come to know Miss Dorrit.
-- The business was of too modest a character to support a life-size Highlander, but it maintained a little one on a bracket on the door-post, who looked like a fallen Cherub that had found it necessary to take to a kilt.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the training she received at Aunt March's was just what she needed, and the thought that she was doing something to support herself made her happy in spite of the perpetual 'Josy-phine!'
-- And he said it was good, and I shall write more, and he's going to get the next paid for, and I am so happy, for in time I may be able to support myself and help the girls.'
-- How still the room was as they listened breathlessly, how strangely the day darkened outside, and how suddenly the whole world seemed to change, as the girls gathered about their mother, feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.
-- Don't take off your apron, whatever you do, it's peculiarly becoming,' said Lau-rie, as Jo bestowed his especial aversion in her capacious pocket and offered her arm to support his feeble steps.
-- Never deceive him by look or word, Meg, and he will give you the confidence you deserve, the support you need.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They made a great many other wise and humane regulations, having reference to the ladies, which it is not necessary to repeat; kindly undertook to divorce poor married people, in consequence of the great expense of a suit in Doctors' Commons; and, instead of compelling a man to support his family, as they had theretofore done, took his family away from him, and made him a bachelor!There is no saying how many applicants for relief, under these last two heads, might have started up in all classes of society, if it had not been coupled with the workhouse; but the board were long-headed men, and had provided for this difficulty.
-- He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper.
-- Sikes slackened his pace when they reached this spot: the girl being quite unable to support any longer, the rapid rate at which they had hitherto walked.
-- After a few days, the affair began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their first object was her sister; and she was more grieved than aston-ished to hear, in reply to her minute inquiries, that though Jane always struggled to support her spirits, there were pe-riods of dejection.
-- She knew not how to support herself, and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half-an-hour.
-- He had some intention, he added, of studying law, and I must be aware that the interest of one thousand pounds would be a very insufficient support therein.
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