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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Only wait a bit, old chap, and I'll give ye a sling for that wounded arm," cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
-- Pity if there is nothing wonderful in signs, and significant in wonders!There's a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist hark!By Jove, I have it!Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter; and now I'll read it off, straight out of the book.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having availed himself of the expiring light of the candle to tie up in a handkerchief the few articles of wearing apparel he had, sat himself down upon a bench, to wait for morning.
-- He waited at the bottom of a steep hill till a stage-coach came up, and then begged of the outside passengers; but there were very few who took any notice of him: and even those told him to wait till they got to the top of the hill, and then let them see how far he could run for a halfpenny.
-- 'Wait a minute!Don't speak!Stop--' continued Mr. Grimwig, abruptly, losing all dread of the fever in his triumph at the discovery; 'that's the boy who had the orange!If that's not the boy, sir, who had the orange, and threw this bit of peel upon the staircase, I'll eat my head, and his too.'
-- 'Wait a minute!'
-- 'Wait till Bill tells you, then.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!yes it would be much better to wait till Jane was well, and by that time most likely Captain Carter would be at Meryton again.
-- 'I know little of the game at present,' said he, 'but I shall be glad to improve myself, for in my situation in life ' Mrs. Phillips was very glad for his compliance, but could not wait for his reason.
-- The Longbourn party were the last of all the company to depart, and, by a manoeuvre of Mrs. Bennet, had to wait for their carriage a quarter of an hour after everybody else was gone, which gave them time to see how heartily they were wished away by some of the family.
-- It was Mr. Collins's picture of Hunsford and Rosings rationally softened; and Elizabeth perceived that she must wait for her own visit there to know the rest.
-- On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin's appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- at south-west - for seven or eight days, during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where the ships might wait for a wind for the river.
-- All that I could do was to wait till the tide was at the highest, keeping the raft with my oar like an anchor, to hold the side of it fast to the shore, near a flat piece of ground, which I expected the water would flow over; and so it did.
-- that they were so shy, so subtle, and so swift of foot, that it was the most difficult thing in the world to come at them; but I was not discouraged at this, not doubting but I might now and then shoot one, as it soon happened; for after I had found their haunts a little, I laid wait in this manner for them: I observed if they saw me in the valleys, though they were upon the rocks, they would run away, as in a terrible fright; but if they were feeding in the valleys, and I was upon the rocks, they took no notice of me; from whence I con-cluded that, by the position of their optics, their sight was so directed downward that they did not readily see objects that were above them; so afterwards I took this method - I always climbed the rocks first, to get above them, and then had frequently a fair mark.
-- Well, at length I found a place in the side of the hill where I was satisfied I might securely wait till I saw any of their boats coming; and might then, even before they would be ready to come on shore, convey myself unseen into some thickets of trees, in one of which there was a hollow large enough to conceal me entirely; and there I might sit and observe all their bloody doings, and take my full aim at their heads, when they were so close together as that it would be next to impossible that I should miss my shot, or that I could fail wounding three or four of them at the first shot.
-- They had two canoes with them, which they had hauled up upon the shore; and as it was then ebb of tide, they seemed to me to wait for the return of the flood to go away again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For shame, Willoughby, can you wait for an invitation here?"
-- They were now joined by Mrs. Jennings, who had not patience enough to wait till the door was opened before she told HER story.
-- Wait only till tomorrow."
-- I warrant you, Miss Marianne would have been ready to wait till matters came round.
-- Elinor, unable herself to determine whether it were better for Marianne to be in London or at Barton, offered no counsel of her own except of patience till their mother's wishes could be known; and at length she obtained her sister's consent to wait for that knowledge.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will have to wait until you hear from me again.
-- After a wait of perhaps three-quarters of an hour, she was called in turn.
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