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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I took heart to tell himthat I had had nothing all night, and that if he would allow me tobuy something to eat I should be very much obliged to him.
-- Mr. Micawber's feelings would never allow him todispose of them; and Clickett'- this was the girl from theworkhouse- 'being of a vulgar mind, would take painful liberties ifso much confidence was reposed in her.
-- I won't allow it.
-- But I don't allow anybody to ride over thatturf.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.
-- Neither would Mr. Knightley's downright, decided, commanding sort of manner, though it suits him very well; his figure, and look, and situation in life seem to allow it; but if any young man were to set about copying him, he would not be sufferable.
-- Mr. Knightley, I shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case.
-- She must allow him to be still fre-quently coming to look; any thing less would certainly have been too little in a lover; and he was ready at the smallest intermission of the pencil, to jump up and see the progress, and be charmed. There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a like-ness almost before it was possible.
-- We must allow for the effect of shade, you know.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His head began to ache in an unwonted manner, and, fancying himself weary by reason of the broken rests of the preceding nights, Oak decided to get up, open the slide, and then allow himself to fall asleep.
-- I don't allow it.
-- "I cannot allow any man to to criticise my private conduct!"
-- "If you'll allow me I'll open it, and set you free."
-- Now, allow me!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them in-creased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.
-- When I appeared on deck the master said, 'Here is our captain, and he will not allow you to perish on the open sea.'
-- When my guest was a little recovered I had great trou-ble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose res-toration evidently depended upon entire repose.
-- I understand your feeling,' con-tinued he, perceiving that I wished to interrupt him; 'but you are mistaken, my friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny; listen to my histo-ry, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined.'
-- A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peace-ful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His five brothers and their father stood six feet and over and broad in proportion, but little Gerald, at twenty-one,knew that five feet four and a half inches was as much as the Lord in His wisdom was going to allow him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "My dear young friend," said Mr. Pumblechook; "if you will allow me to call you so--"I murmured "Certainly," and Mr. Pumblechook took me by both hands again, and communicated a movement to his waistcoat, which had an emotional appearance, though it was rather low down, "My dear young friend, rely upon my doing my little all in your absence, by keeping the fact before the mind of Joseph.--Joseph!"
-- As he was fast making jam of his fruit by wrestling with the door while the paper-bags were under his arms, I begged him to allow me to hold them.
-- "I will not allow anybody to interfere," said Mrs. Pocket.
-- His employer would not allow him to be drunk."
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