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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood's had begun to be a troublesome image a species of Daniel in her kingdom who persisted in kneeling eastward when reason and common sense said that he might just as well follow suit with the rest, and afford her the official glance of admiration which cost nothing at all.
-- The dairy superintendence shall be done by a man I can afford it well you shall never have so much as to look out of doors at haymaking time, or to think of weather in the harvest.
-- "Who are you, then, who can so well afford to despise opinion?"
-- Boldwood felt his love to be so deep and strong and eternal, that it was possible she had never yet known its full volume, and this patience in delay would afford him an opportunity of giving sweet proof on the point.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "So the wheel turns," said Vautrin; "yesterday night at a duchess' ball, this morning in a money-lender's office, on the lowest rung of the ladder--just like a Parisienne!If their husbands cannot afford to pay for their frantic extravagance, they will sell themselves.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This manuscript will doubtless afford you the greatest pleasure; but to me, who know him and who hear it from his own lips with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day!Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.
-- At these moments I wept bitterly and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them con-solation and happiness.
-- I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature.'
-- My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
-- But sleep did not afford me respite from thought and misery; my dreams presented a thousand ob-jects that scared me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Melanie knew she had Ashley securely, soshe could well afford to show such a Christian spirit.
-- The butcher shopscarried almost no beef and very little mutton, and that mutton cost so much only the rich could afford it.
-- My child, Sherman has twice as many men as Johnston, and hecan afford to lose two men for every one of our gallant laddies.
-- And Johnston can't afford to lose a single man.
-- They had suffered heavy losses but they could afford to lose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did this with the air of a Jack who was so right that he could afford to do anything.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domes-tics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.
-- However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things; which has only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's busi-ness be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged, in proportion, to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He followed up the advantage, by saying in his pleasantest manner: a manner to which she might attach as much or as little meaning as she pleased: 'The side that can prove anything in a line of units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, Mrs. Bounderby, seems to me to afford the most fun, and to give a man the best chance.
-- The performance seemed a little long to Sissy and Louisa, particularly when it stopped to afford the Clown an opportunity of telling Mr. Sleary (who said 'Indeed, sir!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had to deal with them, Clifford was rather haughty and contemptuous; one could no longer afford to be friendly.
-- 'Probably he would like to: but can't afford the luxury!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It scarcely seemed, however, to afford Mr Meagles as much satisfaction as the Barnacle genealogy had done.
-- He was jocular, too, as to the heeling of his shoes; but became grave on the subject of his cravat, and promised her that, when she could afford it, she should buy him a new one.
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