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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assume that we are all placed in a certain position, and must assume the duties that result from that position, must support those conditions of existence into which we were born, which we have inherited from our forefathers, and which we must hand over to our posterity."
-- "Their aim is to support class interests.
-- "I cannot agree with you that the aim of courts is to support the existing order of things.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We must support you, you know,' the White Queen whispered, as Alice got up to do it, very obediently, but a little frightened.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He clambered up and down stairs, and went from the parlour to the bar and back again, and sometimes put his nose out of doors to smell the sea, holding on to the walls as he went for support and breathing hard and fast like a man on a steep mountain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My strength was exhausted; my fingers stiffened; my hand afforded me support no longer; my mouth, convulsively opening, filled with salt water.
-- These polypi are found particularly in the rough beds of the sea, near the surface; and consequently it is from the upper part that they begin their operations, in which they bury themselves by degrees with the debris of the secretions that support them.
-- But, whatever resistance to crushing the Nautilus possesses, it could not support this terrible pressure, and would be flattened like an iron plate."
-- I reached the platform, on which I could with difficulty support myself against the shock of the waves.
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：
-- He wished the peaks were grey and unbeautiful, so that she should not get her support from them.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Were I in your place, I would frame high notions of my birth; and the thoughts of what I was should give me courage and dignity to support the oppressions of a little farmer!
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