mend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 修理， 缝补； 改正， 改进，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here this morning--or yesterday morning--you were going to mend that blue dress, and as far as I can figure out you haven't done a darn' thing the whole day but sit around and read, and then you come out with that ratty embroidery--" "Will you stop the car!"
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：
-- (You must mend that tear, you must take your needle 256 Crime and Punishmentand darn it as I showed you, or to-morrow cough, cough, cough he will make the hole bigger,' she articulated with effort.)
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here!The cobbler's been,' he said, 'since you've been out, Mr.Mell, and he says he can't mend 'em any more.
-- To mend the matter, Hamlet's aunt had the familyfailing of indulging in soliloquy, and held forth in a desultorymanner, by herself, on every topic that was introduced.
-- He was conscious of this, and put aconstraint upon his head; but his keeping that immoveable, andsitting rolling his eyes like a piece of machinery, did not mend thematter at all.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, in a distant Missionary way he asked them certain questions,--as why little Joe had that hole in his frill, who said, Pa, Flopson was going to mend it when she had time,--and how little Fanny came by that whitlow, who said, Pa, Millers was going to poultice it when she didn't forget.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My friends,' Stephen began, in the midst of a dead calm; 'I ha' hed what's been spok'n o' me, and 'tis lickly that I shan't mend it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, in the first place, let us examine this mysterious gallery, in order to find if we shall need to prepare and mend our ladders."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No matter, you shall see how soon I'll mend it.
-- The removal of Little Dorrit herself from their customary association, did not mend the matter.
-- I have over and over again dreamed of taking my place at dinner at Venice when we have had a large company, in the mourning for my poor mother which I wore when I was eight years old, and wore long after it was threadbare and would mend no more.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it, made her own easier to bear and strengthened her resolution to cure it, though forty years seemed rather a long time to watch and pray to a girl of fifteen.
-- Amy stirred and sighed in her sleep, and as if eager to begin at once to mend her fault, l Jo looked up with an ex-pression on her face which it had never worn before.
-- 'My old white one again, if I can mend it fit to be seen, it got sadly torn last night,' said Meg, trying to speak quite easily, but feeling very uncomfortable.
-- She does her own hair, and I am teaching her to make buttonholes and mend her stockings.
-- They don't mean any harm, I'm sure, but if they knew how we fellows talked about them afterward, they'd mend their ways, I fancy.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend a pen with his jack-knife, old Bildad, to my no small surprise, considering that he was such an interested party in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded us, but went on mumbling to himself out of his book, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth ""Well, Captain Bildad," interrupted Peleg, "what d'ye say, what lay shall we give this young man?"
-- Bildad, thou used to be good at sharpening a lance, mend that pen, will ye.
-- and going to the mate, he looked at him quietly, and asked him for some twine to mend his hammock.
-- But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.
-- But Ahab can mend all.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me mend it for you.
-- I mend pens remarkably well.'
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