assignment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 分配， 指派； (指定的) 作业， (分派的) 任务，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stokes was appointed Surgeon General, vice Inchcape Jones, and he made an illegal assignment of Martin to St. Swithin's Parish, as medical officer with complete power.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Holding the office directly from the crown, I believe, all the royal emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The affairs of this debtor were perplexed by a partnership, of which he knew no more than that he had invested money in it; by legal matters of assignment and settlement, conveyance here and conveyance there, suspicion of unlawful preference of creditors in this direction, and of mysterious spiriting away of property in that; and as nobody on the face of the earth could be more incapable of explaining any single item in the heap of confusion than the debtor himself, nothing comprehensible could be made of his case.
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