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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew my father years ago, and he sent me a polite note this afternoon, saying he hoped I would allow him to express his friendly feeling toward my children by sending them a few trifles in honor of the day.
-- I like to pay my debts, so I know you will allow 'the old gentleman' to send you something which once belonged to the little grand daughter he lost.
-- I am sorry this has happened, but I never allow my rules to be infringed, and I never break my word.
-- 'Good!Bless you!Now, as there's nothing like 'taking time by the fetlock', as Winkle characteristically observes, allow me to present the new member.'
-- Allow me to present the club key, and with many thanks for your favor, take my seat.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way.
-- "Ever since young Stiggs coming from that unfort'nt v'y'ge of his, when he was gone four years and a half, with only three barrels of ile, was found dead in my first floor back, with his harpoon in his side; ever since then I allow no boarders to take sich dangerous weepons in their rooms at night.
-- "I don't allow it; I won't have my premises spoiled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, he began to languish for fresh air, and took many occasions of earnestly entreating the old gentleman to allow him to go out to work with his two companions.
-- Allow me--Miss Rose, will you permit me?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dar-cy, you must allow me to present this young lady to you as a very desirable partner.
-- 'You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection.
-- Allow me to say, however, that your fair partner does not disgrace you, and that I must hope to have this pleasure often repeated, especially when a certain desirable event, my dear Eliza (glancing at her sis-ter and Bingley) shall take place.
-- 'And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?'
-- You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my con-science on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was not till the fourth year that I could allow myself the least grain of this corn to eat, and even then but sparingly, as I shall say afterwards, in its order; for I lost all that I sowed the first season by not observing the prop-er time; for I sowed it just before the dry season, so that it never came up at all, at least not as it would have done; of which in its place.
-- When he had done this, we came back to our castle; and there I fell to work for my man Friday; and first of all, I gave him a pair of linen drawers, which I had out of the poor gunner's chest I mentioned, which I found in the wreck, and which, with a little alteration, fitted him very well; and then I made him a jerkin of goat's skin, as well as my skill would allow (for I was now grown a tolerably good tailor); and I gave him a cap which I made of hare's skin, very con-venient, and fashionable enough; and thus he was clothed, for the present, tolerably well, and was mighty well pleased to see himself almost as well clothed as his master.
-- I made her very easy as to what she owed me, assur-ing her I would give her no trouble; but, on the contrary, in gratitude for her former care and faithfulness to me, I relieved her as my little stock would afford; which at that time would, indeed, allow me to do but little for her; but I assured her I would never forget her former kindness to me; nor did I forget her when I had sufficient to help her, as shall be observed in its proper place.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would not bind myself to allow them any thing yearly.
-- "Nay, Mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper! but we must allow for difference of taste.
-- His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.
-- His name, he replied, was Willoughby, and his present home was at Allenham, from whence he hoped she would allow him the honour of calling tomorrow to enquire after Miss Dashwood.
-- But, in return, your sister must allow me to feel no more than I profess.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As on the previous morning, Carrie walked down town, for she began to realise now that her four-fifty would not even allow her car fare after she paid her board.
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