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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your appearance led me to think but just wait for the secretary; the general is busy now, but the secretary is sure to come out.'
-- His conclusion was that one of two things must be the explanation either that this was a begging impostor, or that the prince, if prince he were, was simply a fool, without the slightest ambition; for a sensible prince with any ambition would certainly not wait about in ante-rooms with servants, and talk of his own private affairs like this.
-- I'll tell him at once he will be free in a minute; but you you had better wait in the ante-chamber, hadn't you?
-- Wait a little, if you don't mind, and if you have time to spare?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would you wait till the Trojans reach the sterns of our ships as they lie on the shore, to see wheth-er the son of Saturn will hold his hand over you to protect you?'
-- The Cadmeans were incensed at his success, and set a force of fifty youths with two captains the godlike hero Maeon, son of Haemon, and Polyphontes, son of Autophonus at their head, to lie in wait for him on his return journey; but Tydeus slew every man of them, save only Maeon, whom he let go in obedience to heaven's omens.
-- Take hold, then, of the whip and reins while I stand upon the car to fight, or else do you wait this man's onset while I look after the horses.'
-- Would you wait till they are at the walls of Troy?
-- Wait till I can bring you wine that you may make offering to Jove and to the other immortals, and may then drink and be refreshed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some want to follow things that move, to watch and slink and wait and spring; to kill and bite, bite deep and rich, sucking the blood.
-- 'Wait a minute.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not wait for anything more, but dashed on; and the yells grew fainter behind him as he ran into the crop-lands where the villagers lived.
-- They have no speech of their own, but use the stolen words which they overhear when they listen, and peep, and wait up above in the branches.
-- 'A blow more or less is nothing to thee, Bagheera or Baloo, but I I have to wait and wait for days in a wood-path and climb half a night on the mere chance of a young ape.
-- 'We dare not wait for thee.
-- When I come down here again, I will wait for thee in the bamboos at the edge of the grazing-ground.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And, think you, when he saw one of your feet out of the stirrup, he would wait for the other to be free?
-- 'We have been like hunters who have lost the points of the heavens, and from whom the sun has been hid for days,' said Hawkeye, turning away from his companions; 'now we begin again to know the signs of our course, and the paths are cleared from briers!Seat yourselves in the shade which the moon throws from yonder beech 'tis thick-er than that of the pines and let us wait for that which the Lord may choose to send next.
-- 'Let us deliver our fire,' he said; 'they will believe it a sor-tie, and give way, or they will wait for reinforcements.'
-- Fall back,' Duncan added to the officer who led the escort; 'fall back, sir, beyond hearing, and wait for or-ders.'
-- Without deigning to bestow further words, or to wait for any answer, the savage cast his rifle into the hollow of his arm, and moved silently through the encampment to-ward the woods where his own tribe was known to lie.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only thing was to wait in silence.
-- I shall wait till she sends for me."
-- I asked him to go on and wait for me at the entrance, for I wanted to say something to the nurse.
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