prayer是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 祈祷， 祷告， 祷文，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：
-- Holding up his hands in a last prayer to have his fate aye reversed, he saw an alteration in the Phantom's hood and dress.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The devoutest person could have rendered nogreater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife.
-- She timidly laid her hand on his dear breast, and put up a prayer that she might ever be as true to him as her love aspired to be, and as his sorrows deserved.
-- Like 332 A tale of two citiesthe fabled rustic who raised the Devil with infinite pains, and was so terrified at the sight of him that he could ask the Enemy no question, but immediately fled; so, Monseigneur, after boldly reading the Lord's Prayer backwards for a great number of years, and performing many other potent spells for compelling the Evil One, no sooner beheld him in his terrors than he took to his noble heels.
-- The slight devices with which she cheated herself into the show of a belief that they would soon be reunited the little preparations for his speedy return, the setting aside of his chair and his books these, and the solemn prayer at night for one dear prisoner especially, among the many unhappy souls in prison and the shadow of death were almost the only outspoken reliefs of her heavy mind.
-- As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer 449that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consid-eration of all his poor blindnesses and errors, ended in the words, 'I am the resurrection and the life.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt so sinful, so guilty, that nothing was left her but to humiliate herself and beg forgiveness; and as now there was no one in her life but him, to him she addressed her prayer for forgiveness.
-- "Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, in the abundance and riches of His lovingkindness, forgives this child..." and, finishing the prayer of absolution, the priest blessed him and dismissed him.
-- When the deacon had finished the prayer for the Imperial family, the priest turned to the bridal pair with a book: "Eternal God, that joinest together in love them that were separate," he read in a gentle, piping voice: "who hast ordained the union of holy wedlock that cannot be set asunder, Thou who didst bless Isaac and Rebecca and their descendants, according to Thy Holy Covenant; bless Thy servants, Konstantin and Ekaterina, leading them in the path of all good works.
-- Taking the crowns off their heads the priest read the last prayer and congratulated the young people.
-- His great eyes, fastened on the holy image that was set out on a card table covered with a colored napkin, expressed such passionate prayer and hope that it was awful to Levin to see it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through the prayer Martin sat with his forehead in his hand, feeling foolish, and raving, "I guess this is the proper attitude-- they're all gawping at me--gosh, won't he ever quit?--oh, damn it, now what was that point I was going to make about fumigation?--oh, Lord, he's winding up and I've got to shoot!"
-- Suddenly he loved humanity as he loved the decent, clean rows of test-tubes, and he prayed then the prayer of the scientist: "God give me unclouded eyes and freedom from haste.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ago-nised, wasted, consumptive face, the parched blood-stained lips, the hoarse voice, the tears unrestrained as a child's, the trustful, childish and yet despairing prayer for help were so piteous that everyone seemed to feel for her.
-- Your prayer perhaps will reach Him.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heaccompanied me a good part of the way; and when we parted,with a prayer for the success of this fresh effort, there was a newand thoughtful compassion in him that I was at no loss to interpret.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had walked nearly two miles of her journey, watching how the day was retreating, and thinking how the time of deeds was quietly melting into the time of thought, to give place in its turn to the time of prayer and sleep, when she beheld advancing over Yalbury hill the very man she sought so anxiously to elude.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She loved this land so much, without even knowing she loved it, loved it as she loved hermother's face under the lamp at prayer time.
-- Pork, and my prayer book, Mammy."
-- Jack set his fly-brush in the corner and removed the dishes, whileMammy fumbled in the sideboard drawer for Ellen's worn prayer book.
-- Ellen arranged her skirts and sank to the floor on her knees, laying the open prayer book on the table before her andclasping her hands upon it Gerald knelt beside her, and Scarlett and Suellen took their accustomed places on theopposite side of the table, folding their voluminous petticoats in pads under their knees, so they would ache less fromcontact with the hard floor.
-- Ellen finished and Gerald, who could never find his beads at prayer time, began furtively counting his decade onhis fingers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may read the Lord's Prayer backwards, if you like,--and, perhaps, have done it before to-day.
-- The white vapor of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now.
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