afford是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 付得起; 冒险; 供给，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't afford it.
-- Without deigning to look at the assemblage a second time, Monsieur the Marquis leaned back in his seat, and was just being driven away with the air of a gentleman who had accidentally broke some common thing, and had paid for it, and could afford to pay for it; when his ease was suddenly disturbed by a coin flying into his carriage, and ringing on its floor.
-- 'I don't care about fortune: she is a charming creature, and I have made up my mind to please myself: on the whole, I think I can afford to please myself.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He creeps so carefully; he will afford us much pleasure and we have nothing but him to live for!But have you not thought of it?
-- Oh!a match might afford her a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, then you can afford to lose over me," said Vronsky, laughing.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wished Clif Clawson were present--Clif liked any sort of assembly, but he could not afford dress-clothes.
-- These clinics--outrageous--the people that go to them that can afford to pay!Pauperize people.
-- I have enough sound natural immorality in me so I can afford to be moral.
-- But same TIME, when you begin to make a practice of encouraging a lot of folks, that can afford to pay, to go and get free treatment, and practically you attack the integrity of the physicians of this city, that have been giving God knows how much of their time to charity--" Martin answered neither wisely nor competently: "Irve, sweetheart, you can go straight to hell!"
-- When Holabird was gone, driving away in his neat coupe (he often explained that his wife and he could afford a chauffeur, but they preferred to spend the money on other things), Martin was conscious of Terry Wickett, leaning against a gnawed wooden pillar of the wharf-house, as though he had been there for hours.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little girl was still trembling; but the boy, kneeling on his little bare knees, lifted his hand rhythmically, crossing himself with precision and bowed down, touching the floor with his forehead, which seemed to afford him especial sat-isfaction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Educationis costly; and even if it were not, and I could afford it, I am ofopinion that it would not be at all advantageous to you to be keptat a school.
-- Foursides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, thathad no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief.
-- Are youcertain that you can afford to part with so much money, and that itis right that it should be so expended?
-- 'I have 430some reason to suspect, from what I have heard- my ears arealways open; I can't afford to spare what powers I have- that theyare gone abroad.
-- We look into theglittering windows of the jewellers' shops; and I show Sophywhich of the diamondeyed serpents, coiled up on white satin risinggrounds, I would give her if I could afford it; and Sophy shows mewhich of the gold watches that are capped and jewelled andengine-turned, and possessed of the horizontal lever-escape-movement, and all sorts of things, she would buy for me if shecould afford it; and we pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices,butter-knives, and sugar-tongs, we should both prefer if we couldboth afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them!Then,when we stroll into the squares, and great streets, and see a houseto let, sometimes we look up at it, and say, how would that do, if Iwas made a judge?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, and that is as early as most men can afford to marry, who are not born to an independence.
-- He proved to me that he could afford it; and that being the case, I was convinced he could not do better.
-- Mr. Woodhouse had so completely made up his mind to the visit, that in spite of the increasing coldness, he seemed to have no idea of shrinking from it, and set forward at last most punctually with his eldest daughter in his own car-riage, with less apparent consciousness of the weather than either of the others; too full of the wonder of his own go-ing, and the pleasure it was to afford at Randalls to see that it was cold, and too well wrapt up to feel it.
-- I am glad he can afford it.
-- She proved to be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford her the comfortable main-tenance which had ever been hers, and decent enough to have always wished for concealment. Such was the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for! It was likely to be as untainted, perhaps, as the blood of many a gentleman: but what a connexion had she been preparing for Mr. Knightley or for the Churchills or even for Mr. Elton! The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding that the area of a single county did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose, and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one.
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