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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Mary Grant who poured out her heart to God in prayer for her benefactors, while grateful happy tears streamed down her cheeks, and almost choked her utterance.
-- Lady Helena repeated the evening prayer aloud, her companions, bare-headed, repeated it after her.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I would have you believe, my sons, that the same Justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy but that by prayer and repentance it may be removed.
-- We tore away his collar, and Holmes breathed a prayer of gratitude when we saw that there was no sign of a wound and that the rescue had been in time.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother, 'Mother,' he cried, 'you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Olympus, might have made that little glori-ous.
-- Many a time would he lift his hands in prayer that his soul might leave his body and go down within the house of Hades.
-- All-counselling Jove thundered loudly in answer to the prayer of the aged son of Neleus.
-- For he meant giving glory to Hector son of Priam, and letting him throw fire upon the ships, till he had fulfilled the unrighteous prayer that Thetis had made him; Jove, therefore, bided his time till he should see the glare of a blazing ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my pain an' trouble, lookin up yonder, wi' it shinin on me I ha' seen more clear, and ha' made it my dyin prayer that aw th' world may on'y coom toogether more, an' get a better unnerstan'in o' one another, than when I were in 't my own weak seln.'
-- And your prayer is mine.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I breathed one more prayer to Heaven, I sent up words of thanksgiving--believing in my inmost heart that He had led me to the only place where the voices of my friends could reach my ears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, was a prayer too poor in spirit for her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo's only answer was to hold her mother close, and in the silence which followed the sincerest prayer she had ever prayed left her heart without words.
-- When her heart got heavy with longings for Mother or fears for Father, she went away into a certain closet, hid her face in the folds of a dear old gown, and made her little moan and prayed her little prayer quietly by herself.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
-- Next morning early, leaving Queequeg shut up with Yojo in our little bedroom for it seemed that it was some sort of Lent or Ramadan, or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer with Queequeg and Yojo that day; how it was I never could find out, for, though I applied myself to it several times, I never could master his liturgies and XXXIX Articles leaving Queequeg, then, fasting on his tomahawk pipe, and Yojo warming himself at his sacrificial fire of shavings, I sallied out among the shipping.
-- No use prying there; avast, I say with your handspikes, and run one of ye for a prayer book and a pen-knife, and cut the big chains."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this point of the inquiry, Oliver raised his head; and, looking round with imploring eyes, murmured a feeble prayer for a draught of water.
-- The old lady tenderly bade him good-night shortly afterwards, and left him in charge of a fat old woman who had just come: bringing with her, in a little bundle, a small Prayer Book and a large nightcap.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These reflections oppressed me for the second or third day of my distemper; and in the violence, as well of the fever as of the dreadful reproaches of my conscience, extorted some words from me like pray-ing to God, though I cannot say they were either a prayer attended with desires or with hopes: it was rather the voice of mere fright and distress.
-- After my broken and imperfect prayer was over, I drank the rum in which I had steeped the tobacco, which was so strong and rank of the tobacco that I could scarcely get it down; immediately upon this I went to bed.
-- And this I must observe, with grief, too, that the discomposure of my mind had great impression also upon the religious part of my thoughts; for the dread and terror of falling into the hands of savages and cannibals lay so upon my spirits, that I seldom found myself in a due temper for application to my Maker; at least, not with the sedate calmness and res-ignation of soul which I was wont to do: I rather prayed to God as under great affliction and pressure of mind, - surrounded with danger, and in expectation every night of being murdered and devoured before morning; and I must testify, from my experience, that a temper of peace, thank-fulness, love, and affection, is much the more proper frame for prayer than that of terror and discomposure: and that under the dread of mischief impending, a man is no more fit for a comforting performance of the duty of praying to God than he is for a repentance on a sick-bed; for these dis-composures affect the mind, as the others do the body; and the discomposure of the mind must necessarily be as great a disability as that of the body, and much greater; praying to God being properly an act of the mind, not of the body.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, and every day and every night it was her prayer to be allowed to live till she got it done, but she never got the chance.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the fisher folk on the shore, whispering a prayer as they turned to go home.
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