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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I offer you the most beautiful land in the world saving County Meath in the Old Country and what do youdo?
-- James and Andrew might have some advice to offer on this subject of marriage, and there might be daughtersamong their old friends who would both meet his requirements and find him acceptable as a husband.
-- John Wilkes came down the steps to offer his arm to Scarlett.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the certainty of this fact that impelled me to offer the hint.
-- I told her I was going to be apprenticed to Joe, I believed; and I enlarged upon my knowing nothing and wanting to know everything, in the hope that she might offer some help towards that desirable end.
-- "Now, Joseph Gargery, I am the bearer of an offer to relieve you of this young fellow your apprentice.
-- When I had rendered homage to this light, he went on to say, in a friendly manner:--"If at any odd time when you have nothing better to do, you wouldn't mind coming over to see me at Walworth, I could offer you a bed, and I should consider it an honor.
-- Having written to Joe, to offer him consolation, and to assure him that I would come to the funeral, I passed the intermediate days in the curious state of mind I have glanced at.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The counsel pleased the king, and he sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to offer him military service when he awoke.
-- Then he descended again, and went to his father, and caused him-self to be announced as a strange huntsman, and asked if he could offer him service.
-- She replied, 'Go farther into the wood until you come to a house, wherein lives an old woman; she will offer you food and drink, but you must not take of either; if you do, you will fall into a deep sleep, and will not be able to help me.
-- The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or not he could offer any opposition to the ene-my, who was superior in strength and had a mighty army.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After three years expectation that things would mend, I accept-ed an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
-- We made a long march the remain-ing part of the day, and, rested at night with five hundred guards on each side of me, half with torches, and half with bows and arrows, ready to shoot me if I should offer to stir.
-- But because the reader may be curious to have some idea of the style and manner of expression peculiar to that people, as well as to know the article upon which I re-covered my liberty, I have made a translation of the whole instrument, word for word, as near as I was able, which I here offer to the public.
-- '3d, The said man-mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk, or lie down, in a meadow or field of corn.
-- I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the great-est aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have undertaken then to let you know that in short, that Mr. Bounderby has informed me that he has long watched your progress with particular interest and pleasure, and has long hoped that the time might ultimately arrive when he should offer you his hand in marriage.
-- Nobody present having any suggestion to offer in the remarkable emergency, Mrs. Gradgrind departed this life for the time being, after delivering the following codicil to her remarks already executed:'As to the wedding, all I ask, Louisa, is, and I ask it with a fluttering in my chest, which actually extends to the soles of my feet, that it may take place soon.
-- 'If it was not, ma'am, you don't suppose that I should offer it to a lady who has moved in the society you have moved in.
-- Therefore, sir, I accept your offer gratefully, and with many sincere acknowledgments for past favours.
-- 'And I take your offer as a great kindness,' said Tom, grasping his hand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither of them had any thought about money; one was ready to take all that was offered him, the other ready to offer anything that was asked.
-- Had the proposition now been made to go back to the summit of Mount Sneffels, I should have declined the offer in a most indignant manner.
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