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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Just wait a moment, Loo!Before we go, I should like to speak to him a moment.
-- He pushed the door open as he called to her, but did not return into the room, or wait to be lighted down the narrow stairs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course I understand--we must wait till the tide serves."
-- The Professor was therefore compelled to wait the good pleasure of his imperturbable guide, who did not give the signal for departure for a good hour.
-- It was absolutely necessary to resign myself to my fate, and to consent to wait for the explosion for six weary hours!
-- The struggle was awful and ferocious, I, however, did not wait to witness the result.
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：
-- 'Well, we've been waiting for years...we wait longer.
-- 'Either they don't go off at all, as if they were dead in there...or else they wait till a chap's really done, and then they start in to bring themselves off, and a chap's got to hang on.
-- She could only wait, wait and moan in spirit as she felt him withdrawing, withdrawing and contracting, coming to the terrible moment when he would slip out of her and be gone.
-- At times!But you have to wait for the times.
-- I shall wait for you at the park-gate about ten.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Please to wait here.
-- Would you come up-stairs and wait for her?'
-- 'Wait a bit, and I'll tell you.
-- 'Do you think he will be back soon, if I wait for him?'
-- We must be patient, and wait for day.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.
-- 'I declare, it really seems like being a fine young lady, to come home from the party in a carriage and sit in my dress-ing gown wit a maid to wait on me,' said Meg, as Jo bound up her foot with arnica and brushed her hair.
-- Poor dear, just wait till I make my fortune, and you shall revel in carriages and ice cream and high-heeled slippers, and po-sies, and red-headed boys to dance with.'
-- Jo happened to suit Aunt March, who was lame and needed an active person to wait upon her.
-- Shut the window, like a good boy, and wait till I come.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I've got a carpenter's plane there in the bar wait, I say, and I'll make ye snug enough."
-- Thinks I, I'll wait awhile; he must be dropping in before long.
-- Therefore, he must wait for the next ensuing season.
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