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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore he prayed to far-darting Apollo saying, 'Hear me O king from your seat, may be in the rich land of Lycia, or may be in Troy, for in all places you can hear the prayer of one who is in distress, as I now am.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Saw and feared and wondered, making prayer to Shiv, Who hath surely given meat to all that live.
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：
-- She was spared the sin of such a prayer for, maddened at his disappointment, and ex-cited at the sight of blood, the Huron mercifully drove his tomahawk into her own brain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length he turned to her, and speaking very gently, hoped she would say a prayer that night for a sick child.
-- And yet she lay down, with nothing between her and the sky; and, with no fear for herself, for she was past it now, put up a prayer for the poor old man.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three years he were the man of this island, light and dark, fair and rain; and sometimes he would maybe think upon a prayer (says you), and sometimes he would maybe think of his old mother, so be as she's alive (you'll say); but the most part of Gunn's time (this is what you'll say) the most part of his time was took up with another matter.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day had been flooding with rain; we could not go to church, so Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked downstairs before a comfortable fire doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it Heathcliff, myself, and the unhappy ploughboy were commanded to take our prayer books, and mount: we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too, so that he might give us a short homily for his own sake.
-- He had retired to private prayer in his chamber, and Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw were engaging Missy's attention by sundry gay trifles bought for her to present to the little Lintons, as an acknowledgment of their kindness.
-- And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter of an hour's supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace, had not his young mistress broken in upon him with a hurried command that he must run down the road, and, wherever Heathcliff had rambled, find and make him re enter directly!
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