bribe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 贿赂, 行贿，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《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she decided on the spot that next day, Seryozha's birthday, she would go straight to her husband's house, bribe or deceive the servants, but at any cost see her son and overturn the hideous deception with which they were encompassing the unhappy child.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Miss Spenlow endeavoured,' said Miss Murdstone, 'to bribe mewith kisses, work-boxes, and small articles of jewellery- that, ofcourse, I pass over.
-- I got to be so ashamed of being such avictim, that I would have given him any money to hold his tongue,or would have offered a round bribe for his being permitted to runaway.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of proper-ty, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perju-ry, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing any thing unbecoming their na-ture or their office.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, ma'am,' he returned, 'I am thinking about Tom Gradgrind's whim;' Tom Gradgrind, for a bluff independent manner of speaking as if somebody were always endeavouring to bribe him with immense sums to say Thomas, and he wouldn't; 'Tom Gradgrind's whim, ma'am, of bringing up the tumbling-girl.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she began to walk and talk, he became fond of her; bought a little arm-chair and stood it by the high fender of the lodge fire-place; liked to have her company when he was on the lock; and used to bribe her with cheap toys to come and talk to him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Meg led her son away, feeling a strong desire to spank the little marplot who hopped beside her, laboring under the delusion that the bribe was to be administered as soon as they reached the nursery.
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