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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: 'If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.'
-- Then the other answered, as if very unwillingly, 'A little space I may allow thee to sit here, if thou wilt reward me well and entreat me kindly; but thou must tarry yet an hour below, till I have learnt some little matters that are yet unknown to me.'
-- The man wanted to push him away; the youth, however, would not allow that, but thrust him off with all his strength, and seated himself again in his own place.
-- 'I will allow you to watch by it once more, but if this happens for the third time then the well is polluted and you can no longer remain with me.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among them-selves; for some of them will not allow me to be the author of my own travels; and others make me author of books to which I am wholly a stranger.
-- The reader may please to observe, that, in the last arti-cle of the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the sup-port of 1724 Lilliputians.
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
-- I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
-- They would not allow me to be a dwarf, because my littleness was beyond all degrees of comparison; for the queen's favourite dwarf, the small-est ever known in that kingdom, was near thirty feet high.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the measure that he would not allow his own youth to have been attended by a single favourable circumstance, he brightened Mrs. Sparsit's juvenile career with every possible advantage, and showered waggon-loads of early roses all over that lady's path.
-- However, as you are aware, ma'am, I don't allow of even oversights towards you.'
-- 'It is much to be regretted,' said Mrs. Sparsit, making her nose more Roman and her eyebrows more Coriolanian in the strength of her severity, 'that the united masters allow of any such class-combinations.'
-- Allow me.'
-- Will you allow me to ask you if it's always as black as this?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I thoroughly allow that the celebrated Professor wrote the lines, but only, I believe, as a kind of mystification," was my answer.
-- Allow me to have the honor, Professor Hardwigg, to enroll you as an honorary member?"
-- But when my uncle came to understand that they were Danish miles, of eight thousand yards each, he was obliged to be more moderate in his ideas, and, considering the horrible roads we had to follow, to allow eight or ten days for the journey.
-- We must not, however, attempt to hurry him; we must allow him to have his own way, and I will undertake to say that between us we shall do our ten leagues a day."
-- He must have been in expectation of one of two things; either that a vertical well was about to open under his feet, and thus allow him to continue his descent, or that some insurmountable obstacle would compel us to stop and go back by the road we had so long traveled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in short,' said Pet, timidly touching her hand as it lay impassive on the sofa between them, 'will you not allow Father to tender you any slight assistance or service?
-- 'Mrs Bangham,' returned the doctor, 'I am in professional attendance on this lady, and don't choose to allow any discussion on your part.
-- 'I beg your pardon,' said Arthur, stopping him once more, 'but will you allow me to ask you another question?
-- 'Allow me,' said the Father, 'to see you down-stairs.'
-- 'Pray allow me to ' chink, chink, chink.
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