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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One thing I must beg of you-if my husband applies to you for payment for board and lodging, tell him that you have already paid me.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are of the stock that great Jove gave to Tros in payment for his son Ganymede, and are the finest that live and move under the sun.
-- And Sarpedon, captain of the Lycians, answered, 'Tlepol-emus, your father overthrew Ilius by reason of Laomedon's folly in refusing payment to one who had served him well.
-- See how Proma-chus now sleeps, vanquished by my spear; payment for my brother's blood has not been long delayed; a man, therefore, may well be thankful if he leaves a kinsman in his house be-hind him to avenge his fall.'
-- He tried, moreover, to cut off the ears of both of us, so we went away in a rage, furious about the payment he had promised us, and yet withheld; in spite of all this, you are now showing favour to his people, and will not join us in compassing the utter ruin of the proud Trojans with their wives and children.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the Chinese laundryman refused to wash for him without payment she had sent his things to be washed with hers.
-- Dr. Coutras protested that he needed no payment for his journey; he had already given back to Ata the hundred-franc note, but Strickland insisted that he should take the picture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the first day's operations were by no means of a successful character, inasmuch as the general public, though they manifested a lively interest in Mrs Jarley personally, and such of her waxen satellites as were to be seen for nothing, were not affected by any impulses moving them to the payment of sixpence a head.
-- Mr Richard, you'll remember, if this gentleman should be found to have hung himself to the bed-post, or any unpleasant accident of that kind should happen you'll remember, Mr Richard, that this ten pound note was given to you in part payment of two years' rent?
-- I maintain the title by the annual payment of twelve pound sterling for a certificate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If the payment is not above our means," said another.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the man's money if he had any was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by me, Black Dog and the blind beggar, would be inclined to give up their booty in payment of the dead man's debts.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has given me such an abhorrence of annuities, that I am sure I would not pin myself down to the payment of one for all the world."
-- To be tied down to the regular payment of such a sum, on every rent day, is by no means desirable: it takes away one's independence."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doing this, however, she lost the weekly payment of twelve dollars.
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