payment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 支付， 付款额，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, he had oppressed no man, he had imprisoned no man; he was so far from having harshly exacted payment of his dues, that he had relinquished them of his own will, thrown himself on a world with no favour in it, won his own private place there, and earned his own bread.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Levin had driven over himself, and arranged to have the grass cut, partly by hired labor, partly at a payment of a certain proportion of the crop.
-- In the first class he put the debts which he would have to pay at once, or for which he must in any case have the money ready so that on demand for payment there could not be a moment's delay in paying.
-- The other matter, the payment of the sums due, was met too by difficulties.
-- The merchant would not give more, especially as Darya Alexandrovna, for the first time that winter insisting on her right to her own property, had refused to sign the receipt for the payment of the last third of the forest.
-- All his salary went on household expenses and in payment of petty debts that could not be put off.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would offer himself as a cook or servant, in payment of his passage and meals.
-- Payment was made only for the ale, porter, or sherry which was drunk.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may drive through blizzard and August heat, and go down into the purple-shadowed vale of sorrow and wrestle with the ebon- cloaked Powers of Darkness for the lives of your patients, but that heroism is incomplete without Modern Progress, to be obtained by the use of a Bindledorf Tonsillectomy Outfit and the New Idea Panaceatic Cabinet, to be obtained on small payment down, rest on easiest terms known in history of medicine!
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：
-- He was in terrible poverty, yet he took upon himself the payment of his brother's debts.
-- Well, then she gave the I O U by way of payment to this Tchebarov, and without hesitation he made a formal demand for payment.
-- For the last two years he had been working in publishers' offices, and knew three European languages well, though he had told Raskolnikov six days before that he was 'schwach' in German with an object of persuading him to take half his translation and half the payment for it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's some time since I wasarticled, but the payment of that hundred pounds was a great pull.
-- Mr. Micawber then embracedMrs. Micawber, and pressed my hand; leaving me to infer fromthis broken allusion that his domestic supply of water had been cutoff that afternoon, in consequence of default in the payment of thecompany's rates.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the waggon had passed on, Gabriel withdrew from his point of espial, and descending into the road, followed the vehicle to the turnpike-gate some way beyond the bottom of the hill, where the object of his contemplation now halted for the payment of toll.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And perhaps you will find Father Goriot there, who will take payment for the assistance he politely rendered."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I see well enough,' said the witch, 'that you can do no more today, but I will keep you yet another night, in payment for which you must tomorrow chop me a load of wood, and chop it small.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them be-ing admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a propor-tionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:- for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.
-- I offered to leave my goods in security for payment of my freight: but the captain protested he would not receive one farthing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On payment of a fee, a verger gave us the key.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out.
-- 'It would therefore,' said Mrs General, 'be necessary to add a third more to the payment (whatever its amount may prove to be), which my friends here have been accustomed to make to my bankers'.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In return, I signed the instrument of sale in the form which they sent from Lisbon, and sent it to my old man, who sent me the bills of exchange for thirty-two thousand eight hundred pieces of eight for the estate, reserving the payment of one hundred moidores a year to him (the old man) during his life, and fifty moidores afterwards to his son for his life, which I had promised them, and which the plantation was to make good as a rent-charge.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it.
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