bestow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 把…赠与，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No beggars implored him to bestow a tri-fle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge.
-- He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- More than once she had told herself during the past few days, and again only a few moments before, that Vronsky was for her only one of the hundreds of young men, forever exactly the same, that are met everywhere, that she would never allow herself to bestow a thought upon him.
-- And me to go magnanimously to forgive her, and have pity on her!Me go through a performance before her of forgiving, and deigning to bestow my love on her!...
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At present, and untilsomething turns up (which I am, I may say, hourly expecting), Ihave nothing to bestow but advice.
-- In fact, there was a story current among us (I have no idea, andnever had, on what authority, but I have believed it for so manyyears that I feel quite certain it is true), that on a frosty day, onewinter-time, he actually did bestow his gaiters on a beggar-woman, who occasioned some scandal in the neighbourhood byexhibiting a fine infant from door to door, wrapped in thosegarments, which were universally recognised, being as well knownin the vicinity as the cathedral.
-- Soft, seedybiscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd!and orangesinnumerable.
-- We mean to bestow our confidence where welike, and to find our own friends, instead of having them found outfor us- don't we, Jip?'
-- 'To wish her dead,' said I, 'may be the kindest wish that one of herown sex could bestow upon her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should be mortified indeed if I did not be-70 Emmalieve I had been of some use; but it is not every body who will bestow praise where they may.
-- 'So early in life at three-and-twenty a pe-riod when, if a man chuses a wife, he generally chuses ill. At three-and-twenty to have drawn such a prize!What years of felicity that man, in all human calculation, has before him! Assured of the love of such a woman the disin-terested love, for Jane Fairfax's character vouches for her disinterestedness; every thing in his favour, equality of situation I mean, as far as regards society, and all the hab-its and manners that are important; equality in every point but one and that one, since the purity of her heart is not to be doubted, such as must increase his felicity, for it will be his to bestow the only advantages she wants. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals. Frank Churchill is, indeed, the favourite of for-tune.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Much as they were attached to each other, they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me.
-- It 41was said, and we retired under the pretence of seeking re-pose, each fancying that the other was deceived; but when at morning's dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Eliza-beth to renew her entreaties that I would write often and to bestow the last feminine attentions on her playmate and friend.
-- I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continual-ly engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure I was now alone.
-- Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had appar-ently devoted the body to corruption.
-- It was a most beautiful sea-son; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my hunger for information, I made proposals to Mr. Wopsle to bestow some intellectual crumbs upon me, with which he kindly complied.
-- The judicious parent, having nothing to bestow or withhold but his blessing, had handsomely settled that dower upon them after a short struggle, and had informed Mr. Pocket that his wife was "a treasure for a Prince."
-- Put me aside for ever,--you have done so, I well know,--but bestow yourself on some worthier person than Drummle.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the people said 'No,' unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty.
-- Every morning she went into the gar- den and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, ex-cept they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is preg-nant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So much the greater must have been the solitude of her heart, and her need of some one on whom to bestow it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sister was so apt a pupil, and the dancing-master had such abundant leisure to bestow upon her (for it took him a matter of ten weeks to set to his creditors, lead off, turn the Commissioners, and right and left back to his professional pursuits), that wonderful progress was made.
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