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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him to wait a minute.
-- "I'll wait for you."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They must wait with what patience they could for daylight.
-- "We shall be all right if we wait till it ebbs," replied the sailor, "and then we will trust it to carry our fuel to the Chimneys.
-- However, according to Pencroft's advice, it appeared best to wait a few days before commencing an exploration.
-- The explanation of this fact could only be produced from the engineer's own lips, and they must wait for that till speech returned.
-- Top was recalled by a slight whistle from his master, and the latter, signing to his companions to wait for him, glided away among the rocks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's a friend of mine waiting outside, and as it seems that I may have to wait some time, I'll call him in, with your leave.'
-- This was prudent, for in point of fact, the dwarf, knowing his disposition, was lying in wait at a little distance from the sash armed with a large piece of wood, which, being rough and jagged and studded in many parts with broken nails, might possibly have hurt him.
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
-- When should it be, but when I began to think how little I had saved, how long a time it took to save at all, how short a time I might have at my age to live, and how she would be left to the rough mercies of the world, with barely enough to keep her from the sorrows that wait on poverty; then it was that I began to think about it.'
-- 'Wait till he's a widder and works like you do, and gets as little, and does as much, and keeps his spirit up the same, and then I'll ask him what's o'clock and trust him for being right to half a second.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But wait till you are hungry and sleepy, you will sing another tune," Peter Gerasimovitch said, laughing still louder.
-- Although Nekhludoff arrived late, there was a long wait before him, which was caused by the failure of one of the judges to appear.
-- She wrote that she would be in town between three and six o'clock p.m., and wait for him at the "Hotel Italia."
-- "To wait for a cabriolet."
-- But there was a long wait before her, for the secretary, who was to deliver to the guard the order for her removal, forgetting the prisoners, engaged one of the lawyers in the discussion of an editorial that had appeared in a newspaper.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But wait a moment.
-- "It sounds plausible enough tonight," said the Medical Man; "but wait until tomorrow.
-- Wait for the common sense of the morning."
-- I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours that is another matter.
-- I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice did not know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen did not wait for an answer, but went on.
-- She did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time, but walked on quickly to the next peg, where she turned for a moment to say 'good-bye,' and then hurried on to the last.
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