allow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 允许， 准许； 承认； 给予； (for) 考虑到，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the gallantry of her friends would not allow of this; and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder.
-- Allow me to ask your pardon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the day declined into the afternoon, and the air, which had been at intervals clear enough to allow the French coast to be seen, became again charged with mist and vapour, Mr. Lorry's thoughts seemed to cloud too.
-- The spy, who was there to pick up any crumbs he could 257find or make, did not allow his baffled state to express- itself in his sinister face; but, stood with an air of gossiping gallantry, leaning his elbow on Madame Defarge's little counter, and occasionally sipping his cognac.
-- Apart from the personal discomfort of being so attended, and apart from such considerations of present danger as arose from one of the patriots being chronical-ly drunk, and carrying his musket very recklessly, Charles Darnay did not allow the restraint that was laid upon him to awaken any serious fears in his breast; for, he reasoned with himself that it could have no reference to the merits of an individual case that was not yet stated, and of repre-sentations, confirmable by the prisoner in the Abbaye, that were not yet made.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- in short, no one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; be-cause, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for his office.
-- The Selenites* disputed variously about our earth, and expressed their doubts if it could be inhabited: the air, they said, must certainly be too dense to allow any rational dweller in the moon the nec-essary free respiration.
-- For to-day, however, she would allow it; and they must shut him in the empty cage that was standing in the window.
-- You see that it is a feeling; that it is not pride: I cannot allow you to say THOU to me, but I will willingly say THOU to you, so it is half done!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Stepan Arkadyevitch apparently did not care to allow him the satisfaction of giving the French names of the dishes.
-- "Princess, will you allow it?"
-- "Well, well, allow me to kiss your hand."
-- Then remembering his brother Nikolay, he resolved to himself that he would never allow himself to forget him, that he would follow him up, and not lose sight of him, so as to be ready to help when things should go ill with him.
-- But he always felt the injustice of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty of the peasants, and now he determined that so as to feel quite in the right, though he had worked hard and lived by no means luxuriously before, he would now work still harder, and would allow himself even less luxury.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGGThe distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred and ten miles, and the regulations of the company allow the steamers one hundred and thirty-eight hours in which to traverse it.
-- Fix," resumed Aouda, "Mr. Fogg will allow no one to avenge him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Live and let live and mind your own business is my motto, and that's what I said to Alec Ingleblad the other day when I was in there having a shave and he was trying to get funny about our holding so many mortgages, but I'll be blamed if I'm going to allow a fellow that I don't know anything about to come snooping around My Sister till I find out something about his prospects!"
-- Often he meditated on yielding to Joyce so far as to allow her to build a better laboratory for them, and more civilized quarters.
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've been a student or have attended some learned institution!芒聙娄 But allow me芒聙娄.'
-- Allow me to ask you another question out of simple curiosity: have you ever spent a night on a hay barge, on the Neva?'
-- She scrubs the floors herself and has nothing but black bread to eat, but won't allow herself to be treated with disrespect.
-- You could only perhaps ruin yourself, and, besides, Dounia would not allow it; and fill up my letter with trifles when my heart was so full of sorrow, I could not.
-- 'Well, let him take as much from the other fellow to allow him to have the girl and so let it end.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I havethought, since, that its assuming that character was a necessaryconsequence of Mr. Murdstone's firmness, which wouldn't allow 55him to let anybody off from the utmost weight of the severestpenalties he could find any excuse for.
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