wait是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (for) 等待； (on) 侍候n. 等候， 等待时间，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Am I to wait in the court, sir?'
-- Will you wait for us a little, outside the door?'
-- When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained not shown yet always ready.'
-- In the meanwhile, Car-ton would wait alone by the fire for the Doctor.
-- She and her father would unquestionably be guilty of this crime, and this woman (the inveteracy of whose pursuit cannot be described) would wait to add that strength to her case, and make herself doubly sure.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Wait for me here on these steps,' said the Raven.He moved his head backwards and forwards and flew away.
-- * Corsor, on the Great Belt, called, formerly, before the introduction of steam-vessels, when travellers were often obliged to wait a long time for a favorable wind, 'the most tiresome of towns.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, wait a minute, though," he said, still holding her and stroking her soft little hand.
-- You wait a bit, and you'll come to this yourself.
-- Levin sat down to wait till the professor should go, but he soon began to get interested in the subject under discussion.
-- "You wait a bit, wait a bit," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling and touching his hand.
-- "But do wait a minute.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss, even by an hour; a steamer, he would have to wait for the next, and that would irrevocably render his attempt vain.
-- "I think we must wait till night before acting."
-- But could he even wait till they reached Hong Kong?
-- The Carnatic, its repairs being completed, left Hong Kong twelve hours before the stated time, without any notice being given; and we must now wait a week for another steamer."
-- Would it not be better to wait until Mr. Fogg reached London again, and then impart to him that an agent of the metropolitan police had been following him round the world, and have a good laugh over it?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those, ah, those, I seize them, I denounce them, I teach them right away the ultimate lesson of science, which is to wait and doubt.
-- He was not a Don Juan, but he was a poor medical student who would have to wait for years before he could make a living.
-- He had to wait for twenty minutes in a reception-room like that of an undertaker.
-- To see her at all, he had to wait for hours in the lobby, or walk up and down in the snow outside till she could slip to a window and peep out.
-- Here, sit down at this table and wait for me."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will bring you the interest for another month; wait a little.'
-- 'But that's for me to do as I please, my good sir, to wait or to sell your pledge at once.'
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