pair是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 一对， 一双； 一副； 夫妇v. 配对， 成对，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You'll drive me to the churchyard betwixt you, one of these days, and O, a pr-r-recious pair you'd be without me!"
-- As she applied herself to set the tea-things, Joe peeped down at me over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and calculating what kind of pair we practically should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed.
-- We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls.
-- But I ran no farther than the house door, for there I ran head-foremost into a party of soldiers with their muskets, one of whom held out a pair of handcuffs to me, saying, "Here you are, look sharp, come on!"
-- Then, he and my sister would pair off in such nonsensical speculations about Miss Havisham, and about what she would do with me and for me, that I used to want--quite painfully--to burst into spiteful tears, fly at Pumblechook, and pummel him all over.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.
-- Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmoth-er, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf.
-- 222 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER here was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and Twas very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.
-- Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsome-ly for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more.
-- I'll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and 224 Grimms' Fairy Talesa coat and waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons into the bar-gain; and do you make each of them a little pair of shoes.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had as I before observed, one private pocket, which es-caped their search, wherein there was a pair of spectacles (which I sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes,) a pocket perspective, and some other little conveniences; which, being of no consequence to the emperor, I did not think myself bound in honour to discover, and I appre-hended they might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out of my possession.
-- I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor's searchers.
-- I pointed to the dead rat, smiling, and making other signs to show I was not hurt; whereat she was extremely rejoiced, calling the maid to take up the dead rat with a pair of tongs, and throw it out of the window.
-- It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber.
-- He had a large pair of bellows, with a long slender muzzle of ivory: this he conveyed eight inches up the anus, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer's astonished eyes beheld no less than eighteen cambric-fronted shirts, the splendor of their fineness being enhanced by a pair of pins each bearing a large diamond, and connected by a short chain, an ornament which adorned the vermicelli-maker's shirt front.
-- Imagine a pair of great dark eyes, a magnificently moulded hand, a shapely foot.
-- In another moment the law student was enlightened as to the cause of their hilarity; he felt the full force of the contrast between his equipage and one of the smartest broughams in Paris; a coachman, with powdered hair, seemed to find it difficult to hold a pair of spirited horses, who stood chafing the bit.
-- "But is it necessary to have a pair of spirited horses, servants in livery, and torrents of gold to draw a glance from a woman here in Paris?"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She waved her whip when she saw Gerald and drew her dancing pair of red horses to a halt, and the four girls inthe back of the carriage leaned out and gave such vociferous cries of greeting that the team pranced in alarm.
-- Last, theConfederacy needed every pair of hands for sewing, knitting, bandage rolling and nursing the wounded.
-- "Pa, could you manage to get me a pair of boots?
-- Itwas a small "housewife," made of flannel, containing the whole precious pack of needles Rhett had brought her fromNassau, three of her linen handkerchiefs, obtained from the same source, two spools of thread and a small pair ofscissors.
-- Well, far be itfrom me to keep a pair of willing hands from laboring for Our Glorious Cause."
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