offer是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 提出; 表示; n. 提供; 提议，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor has either Dounia or I breathed a word to him of the great hopes we have of his helping us to pay for your university studies; we have not spoken of it in the first place, because it will come to pass of itself, later on, and he will no doubt without wasting words offer to do it of himself, (as though he could refuse Dounia that) the more readily since you may by your own efforts be-come his right hand in the office, and receive this assistance 58 Crime and Punishmentnot as a charity, but as a salary earned by your own work.
-- So she is building all her hopes all the time on Mr. Luzhin's generosity; 'he will offer it of himself, he will press it on me.'
-- 'Prince Schegolskoy, a kammerjunker, had just come from Petersburg then 芒聙娄 he danced the mazurka with me and wanted to make me an offer next day; but I thanked him in flattering expressions and told him that my heart had long been another's.
-- Secondly, my conscience is perfect-ly easy; I make the offer with no ulterior motive.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Inever knew my mother afterwards to give an opinion on anymatter, without first appealing to Miss Murdstone, or withouthaving first ascertained by some sure means, what MissMurdstone's opinion was; and I never saw Miss Murdstone, whenout of temper (she was infirm that way), move her hand towardsher bag as if she were going to take out the keys and offer to resignthem to my mother, without seeing that my mother was in aterrible fright.
-- I thanked him with all myheart, for it was friendly in him to offer to take that trouble.
-- 'I should robmy family,' he said, 'if I was to offer ninepence for it.'
-- I hadnothing better to offer than another timid 'Oh, indeed!'
-- Hisrepudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess ofits surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs.Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated atabout the level of low water-mark, soothed in her slumbers by theticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred mewhen we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, andwhich was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, andhad always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have reason to think,' he replied, 'that Harriet Smith will soon have an offer of marriage, and from a most unex-ceptionable quarter: Robert Martin is the man.
-- 'Well, well, means to make her an offer then.
-- 'Oh!to be sure,' cried Emma, 'it is always incomprehen-sible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- And is she, at seventeen, just entering into life, just beginning to be known, to be wondered at because she does not accept the first offer she receives?
-- 'I do not offer it for Miss Smith's collection,' said he.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weary of standing in the market-place, and not much minding the kind of work he turned his hand to, he decided to offer himself in some other capacity than that of bailiff.
-- My life is not my own since I have beheld you clearly, Miss Everdene I come to make you an offer of marriage."
-- PERPLEXITY GRINDING THE SHEARS A QUARREL"He is so disinterested and kind to offer me all that I can desire," Bathsheba mused.
-- But having fallen in with Farmer Boldwood accidentally (on her part at least) at the refreshment-tent, she found it impossible to refuse his offer to ride on horseback beside her as escort.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If any one complained rather more than usual, he would offer his services at once.
-- You might offer these last all the women on earth--they would turn up their noses; they will have the only one who can gratify their passion.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can offer you no consolation, my friend,' said he; 'your disaster is irreparable.
-- I could offer no explanation of them, but their truth in part relieved the burden of my mysterious woe.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father had ridden over to Twelve Oaks, the Wilkesplantation, that afternoon to offer to buy Dilcey, the broad wife of his valet, Pork.
-- That afternoon, Gerald, his resistance worn thin, had set out tomake an offer for Dilcey.
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