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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as your purse is quite empty at the present moment, you must allow me to press these twenty-five roubles upon your acceptance, as something to begin with.
-- I have no right to ask your help, and I dare not allow myself to indulge in any hopes; but once you said just one word, and that word lighted up the night of my life, and became the beacon of my days.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But none so owdacious ugly if you'll allow the expression.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The direction taken by Hawkeye soon brought the trav-elers to the level of the plain, nearly opposite to a sally-port in the western curtain of the fort, which lay itself at the dis-tance of about half a mile from the point where he halted to allow Duncan to come up with his charge.
-- 'I have solicited this interview from your superior, mon-sieur,' he said, 'because I believe he will allow himself to be persuaded that he has already done everything which is necessary for the honor of his prince, and will now listen to the admonitions of humanity.
-- Just then a few dark-looking heads gleamed out of the dwellings, and the place seemed suddenly alive with beings, which, however, glided from cover to cover so swiftly, as to allow no opportunity of examining their humors or pursuits.
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：
-- But I will allow that the critic who has not a practical knowledge of technique is seldom able to say anything on the subject of real value, and my ignorance of painting is extreme.
-- She could not allow the poor fellow to go about in a dirty shirt, she said, and since he was a man, and men must smoke, she gave him a franc a day for cigarettes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was difficult, for they would not allow themselves to be approached.
-- The engineer was not a man who would allow himself to be diverted from his fixed idea.
-- It was necessary, however, first to allow them to land, for with their close, short hair, and their fusiform conformation, being excellent swimmers, it is difficult to catch them in the sea, while on land their short, webbed feet prevent their having more than a slow, waddling movement.
-- Accustomed to go far into the regions of scientific reality, he would not allow himself to be drawn into the regions of the strange and almost of the supernatural; but yet how to explain why Top, one of those sensible dogs who never waste their time in barking at the moon, should persist in trying with scent and hearing to fathom this abyss, if there was nothing there to cause his uneasiness?
-- As to the powder, of which there was about fifty pounds In the barrel, a small supply of it had to be taken, but the engineer hoped to manufacture an explosive substance which would allow them to husband it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Will you allow me to whisper half a syllable, sir?'
-- I beg your pardon; will you allow me to look at that card again?'
-- Giving the child an encouraging look, intended to reassure her and let her know, that, although she stood in the presence of the original Jarley, she must not allow herself to be utterly overwhelmed and borne down, the lady of the caravan unfolded another scroll, whereon was the inscription, 'One hundred figures the full size of life,' and then another scroll, on which was written, 'The only stupendous collection of real wax-work in the world,' and then several smaller scrolls with such inscriptions as 'Now exhibiting within' 'The genuine and only Jarley' 'Jarley's unrivalled collection' 'Jarley is the delight of the Nobility and Gentry' 'The Royal Family are the patrons of Jarley.'
-- 'I don't wish to hold out any threats, sir indeed the law does not allow of threats, for to threaten is an indictable offence but if ever you do that again, take care you're not sat upon by the coroner and buried in a cross road before you wake.
-- We have been distracted with fears that you were dead, Sir,' said Dick, gently sliding to the ground, 'and the short and the long of it is, that we cannot allow single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra for it.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Would you allow me to see the son in his cell?"
-- The words of her companion reminded her what she was now--reminded her of all the horror of that life which she then felt but confusedly, and would not allow herself to admit.
-- She was sorry that she had missed the opportunity of telling him again that she knew him, and would not yield to him; that she would not allow him to take advantage of her spiritually as he had done corporeally; that she would not allow him to make her the subject of his magnanimity.
-- "At one time we intended to remain here with him, but they would not allow it.
-- But she wishes to marry him, if it will allow her to stay with him."
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