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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can only assure you, Mr Pancks,' said Young John, 'that I deeply regret my circumstances being such that I can't afford to pay my own charges, or that it's not advisable to allow me the time necessary for my doing the distances on foot; because nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to walk myself off my legs without fee or reward.'
-- I can afford to be liberal.
-- I could not afford to lose him, but you will bring him safe back.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being still too young to go often to the theater, and not rich enough to afford any great outlay for private performances, the girls put their wits to work, and necessity being the mother of invention, made whatev-er they needed.
-- It was play then, but there came a time when I was truly grateful that I not only possessed the will but the power to cook wholesome food for my little girls, and help myself when I could no longer afford to hire help.
-- By-and-by, when you've got a name, you can afford to digress, and have philosophical and metaphysical people in your novels,' said Amy, who took a strictly practical view of the subject.
-- He had simply said, in answer to her surprised inquiries as to the change, 'I can't afford it, my dear.'
-- 'It's not the fashion, but it's becoming, and I can't afford to make a fright of myself,' she used to say, when advised to frizzle, puff, or braid, as the latest style commanded.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was cold as Iceland no fire at all the landlord said he couldn't afford it.
-- 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.
-- In connection with this appellative of "Whalebone whales," it is of great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature may be convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales, yet it is in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan, founded upon either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth; notwithstanding that those marked parts or features very obviously seem better adapted to afford the basis for a regular system of Cetology than any other detached bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents.
-- In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.
-- This improvement upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man than Stubb, in order to afford the imperilled harpooneer the strongest possible guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his monkey-rope holder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some houses which had become insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street, by huge beams of wood reared against the walls, and firmly planted in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the nightly haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body.
-- Saying this, Mr. Brownlow looked around the office as if in search of some person who would afford him the required information.
-- I might have know'd, as nobody but an infernal, rich, plundering, thundering old Jew could afford to throw away any drink but water--and not that, unless he done the River Company every quarter.
-- Here, Mr. Brownlow coughed impatiently; which appeared to afford Mr. Grimwig the most exquisite delight.
-- It was remarkable that the latter gentleman and his partner invariably lost; and that the circumstance, so far from angering Master Bates, appeared to afford him the highest amusement, inasmuch as he laughed most uproariously at the end of every deal, and protested that he had never seen such a jolly game in all his born days.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are too many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to money.'
-- He cannot afford it.
-- It is a relation which you tell me is to give you great surprise; I hope at least it will not afford you any displeasure.
-- Their society can afford no pleasure that will atone for such wretchedness as this!Let me never see either one or the other again!'
-- She was in hopes that the evening would afford some opportunity of bringing them together; that the whole of the visit would not pass away without enabling them to enter into something more of conversation than the mere ceremonious salutation attending his entrance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
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