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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She quickly pushed by him into the hall, shouldering him out of her way, and said, furiously, as she threw off her fur cloak: 'If you are too lazy to mend your bell, you should at least wait in the hall to let people in when they rattle the bell han-dle.
-- He tried to give the prince an affectionate smile, and it seemed to the latter as though in this smile of his some-thing had broken, and that he could not mend it, try as he would.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Things will not mend till we two go against this man with chariot and horses and bring him to a trial of arms.
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：
-- Well, words will not mend the matter, and it is time that we were doing.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Will you let me try to mend it for you?
-- But there is no stopping then, for the old gentleman speaks stoutly to him, the horses mend their pace, and they are already at the garden-gate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when, sickly and depraved from the unhealthy work, from drink and lewdness, foo lish and capricious, he aimlessly prowled around the city, as in a dream, entered some shed and abstracted a few worthless mats, then, instead of destroying the causes that led this boy into his present condition, we intend to mend matters by punishing him!
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the honest hands must have caught the infection, for there was not one man aboard to mend another.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The former, when he had deposited his burden, took a critical survey of the room, and in cracked tones grated out 'Aw wonder how yah can faishion to stand thear i' idleness un war, when all on 'ems goan out!Bud yah're a nowt, and it's no use talking yah'll niver mend o'yer ill ways, but goa raight to t' divil, like yer mother afore ye!
-- And then Mr. Linton, to mend matters, paid us a visit himself on the morrow, and read the young master such a lecture on the road he guided his family, that he was stirred to look about him, in earnest.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Thank you but I always mend my own.'
-- I shall send for my clothes when I get to Longbourn; but I wish you would tell Sally to mend a great slit in my worked muslin gown before they are packed up.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the biggest magazine of all kinds now that ever was laid up, I believe, for one man: but I was not satisfied still, for while the ship sat upright in that posture, I thought I ought to get everything out of her that I could; so every day at low water I went on board, and brought away something or other; but particularly the third time I went I brought away as much of the rigging as I could, as also all the small ropes and rope-twine I could get, with a piece of spare can-vas, which was to mend the sails upon occasion, and the barrel of wet gunpowder.
-- - After my morning walk I went to work with my table again, and finished it, though not to my liking; nor was it long before I learned to mend it.
-- To mend the matter, when we came to Pampeluna it continued snow-ing with so much violence and so long, that the people said winter was come before its time; and the roads, which were difficult before, were now quite impassable; for, in a word, the snow lay in some places too thick for us to travel, and being not hard frozen, as is the case in the northern coun-tries, there was no going without being in danger of being buried alive every step.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne continued to mend every day, and the brilliant cheerfulness of Mrs. Dashwood's looks and spirits proved her to be, as she repeatedly declared herself, one of the happiest women in the world.
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