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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am only waiting for you and Afanasy Ivanovitch to have your turns, for I require the support of your example,' she added, smil-ing.
-- Varvara Ardalionovna married Ptitsin this winter, and it was said that the fact of Gania's retirement from busi-ness was the ultimate cause of the marriage, since Gania was now not only unable to support his family, but even re-quired help himself.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Trojans were struck with ter-ror when they saw the snake, portent of aegis-bearing Jove, writhing in the midst of them, and Polydamas went up to Hector and said, 'Hector, at our councils of war you are ever given to rebuke me, even when I speak wisely, as though it were not well, forsooth, that one of the people should cross your will either in the field or at the council board; you would have them support you always: nevertheless I will say what I think will be best; let us not now go on to fight the Danaans at their ships, for I know what will happen if this soaring eagle which skirted the left wing of our host with a monstrous blood-red snake in its talons (the snake being still alive) was really sent as an omen to the Trojans on their essaying to cross the trench.
-- They tore down the breast-works from the walls, and overthrew the battlements; they upheaved the buttresses, which the Achaeans had set in front of the wall in order to support it; when they had pulled these down they made sure of breaking through the wall, but the Danaans still showed no sign of giving ground; they still fenced the battlements with their shields of ox-hide, and hurled their missiles down upon the foe as soon as any came below the wall.
-- Menestheus son of Peteos was dis-mayed when he saw them, for it was against his part of the wall that they came bringing destruction with them; he looked along the wall for some chieftain to support his comrades and saw the two Ajaxes, men ever eager for the fray, and Teucer, who had just come from his tent, standing near them; but he could not make his voice heard by shout-ing to them, so great an uproar was there from crashing shields and helmets and the battering of gates with a din which reached the skies.
-- As he was thus retreating, Ajax son of Telamon, struck him with a stone, of which there were many lying about under the men's feet as they fought brought there to give support to the ships' sides as they lay on the shore.
-- The sire of gods and men smiled and answered, 'If you, Juno, were always to support me when we sit in council of the gods, Neptune, like it or no, would soon come round to your and my way of thinking.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Diary," repeated Cuss, sitting down, putting two volumes to support the third, and opening it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think that the tepid support of his fellow-investigators and his desertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shameful thing.
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：
-- A large, civil cocked hat, like those worn by clergymen within the last thirty years, surmounted the whole, furnishing dignity to a good-natured and somewhat vacant countenance, that ap-parently needed such artificial aid, to support the gravity of some high and extraordinary trust.
-- So soon as Cora and Alice were seated, the scout, with-out regarding the element, directed Heyward to support one side of the frail vessel, and posting himself at the other, they bore it up against the stream, followed by the deject-ed owner of the dead foal.
-- Cora betrayed a disposition to support her sister, and the sacred song proceeded, after the indispensable preliminaries of the pitchpipe, and the tune had been duly attended to by the methodical David.
-- 'You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it,' cried David who was deep-ly tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supply-ing faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdi-ties and doubt; 'your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
-- Name chapter and verse; in which of the holy books do you find language to support you?'
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：
-- Why shouldn't she support herself for a change?"
-- "At all events, you can be forced to support your wife and children," I retorted, somewhat piqued.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evident that the balloon could no longer support itself!Several times already had the crests of the enormous billows licked the bottom of the net, making it still heavier, and the balloon o nly half rose, like a bird with a wounded wing.
-- On the left, the sight extended several miles to the north; but, on the northwest, at the point occupied by the explorers, it was cut short by the ridge of a fantastically-shaped spur, which formed a powerful support of the central cone.
-- "Yes, my boy," replied the engineer, "and you furnish me with an argument to support my theory.
-- It was therefore necessary to fix piles in the bed of the river so as to sustain the floor of the bridge and establish a pile-driver to act on the tops of these piles, which would thus form two arches and allow the bridge to support heavy loads.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a few articles of clothing for herself to carry, and a few for him; old garments, such as became their fallen fortunes, laid out to wear; and a staff to support his feeble steps, put ready for his use.
-- No money; no credit; no support from Fred, who seems to turn steady all at once; notice to quit the old lodgings staggerers, three, four, five, and six!Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent.
-- It was ten o'clock at night before the amiable Sally supported her beloved and loving brother from the Wilderness, by which time he needed the utmost support her tender frame could render; his walk being from some unknown reason anything but steady, and his legs constantly doubling up in unexpected places.
-- Absorbed in these painful ruminations, thinking with a drooping heart of his mother and little Jacob, feeling as though even the consciousness of innocence would be insufficient to support him in the presence of his friends if they believed him guilty, and sinking in hope and courage more and more as they drew nearer to the notary's, poor Kit was looking earnestly out of the window, observant of nothing, when all at once, as though it had been conjured up by magic, he became aware of the face of Quilp.
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