preparation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 准备， 预备； 制剂， 制备品，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 21IV The Preparation hen the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course Wof the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his custom was.
-- Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread; at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale.
-- and throwing off other sarcastic sparks from the whirling grindstone of his indignation, Mr. Cruncher betook himself to his boot-cleaning and his general preparation for busi-ness.
-- Silence in the court!Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excel-lent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, ex-cellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-ad-verbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
-- A mere beast of the chase flying from hunters, he was still in his metempsychosis no other than the same Monseigneur, the preparation of whose chocolate for whose lips had once oc-cupied three strong men besides the cook in question.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She showed that alertness, that swiftness of reflection comes out in men before a battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life--those moments when a man shows once and for all his value, and that all his past has not been wasted but has been a preparation for these moments.
-- The birth of a son (he was certain it would be a son) which was promised him, but which he still could not believe in--so marvelous it seemed--presented itself to his mind, on one hand, as a happiness so immense, and therefore so incredible; on the other, as an event so mysterious, that this assumption of a definite knowledge of what would be, and consequent preparation for it, as for something ordinary that did happen to people, jarred on him as confusing and humiliating.
-- But in order to signify in some way her preparation for dinner, she asked the maid to brush her dress, changed her cuffs and tie, and put some lace on her head.
-- There was, as it were, a continual beginning, a preparation of the musical expression of some feeling, but it fell to pieces again directly, breaking into new musical motives, or simply nothing but the whims of the composer, exceedingly complex but disconnected sounds.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that I am leaving this field where I have labored so long and happily, I want to ask every man jack of you to read, before you begin to practice medicine, not merely your Rosenau and Howell and Gray, but also, as a preparation for being that which all good citizens must be, namely, practical men, a most valuable little manual of modern psychology, 'How to Put Pep in Salesmanship,' by Grosvenor A. Bibby.
-- He had constructed beside the home cabin a shanty for laboratory, and a rough stable for the horses which he used in the preparation of his sera.
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：
-- But this preparation had never been begun.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The counting-house clock was at half-past twelve, and there wasgeneral preparation for going to dinner, when Mr. Quinion tappedat the counting-house window, and beckoned to me to go in.
-- Micawber's Boarding Establishment for Young Ladies': but Inever found that any young lady had ever been to school there; orthat any young lady ever came, or proposed to come; or that theleast preparation was ever made to receive any young lady.
-- At last, to make thematter easier, I went upstairs with her; and having waited outsidefor a minute, while she said a word of preparation to Mr. Barkis,presented myself before that invalid.
-- With this, she tilted some of the contents of thebottle on to one of the little bits of flannel, and, again impartingsome of the virtues of that preparation to one of the little brushes,began rubbing and scraping away with both on the crown ofSteerforth's head in the busiest manner I ever witnessed, talking allthe time.
-- I was expressing mysatisfaction, when Mrs. Micawber came in; a little more slatternlythan she used to be, or so she seemed now, to my unaccustomedeyes, but still with some preparation of herself for company, andwith a pair of brown gloves on.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Later in the morning, and just as the girls were going to separate in preparation for the regular four o'clock dinner, the hero of this inimitable charade walked in again.
-- Now, however, it was absolutely to be; every preparation was resumed, and very soon after the Churchills had removed to Richmond, a few lines from Frank, to say that his aunt felt already much better for the change, and that he had no doubt of being able to join them for twenty-four hours at any given time, induced them to name as early a day as possible.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father was in the meantime overjoyed and in the bustle of preparation only recognized in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen had been given this preparation for marriage which any well-brought-up young lady received, and she alsohad Mammy, who could galvanize the most shiftless negro into energy.
-- As she reached the bottom step, she heard the servants moving about in the dining room under the butler's orders,lifting out the table and chairs in preparation for the dancing.
-- But when the dancing and toasting were finally ended and the dawn was coming, when all the Atlanta guests whocould be crowded into Tara and the overseer's house had gone to sleep on beds, sofas and pallets on the floor and allthe neighbors had gone home to rest in preparation for the wedding at Twelve Oaks the next day, then the dreamliketrance shattered like crystal before reality.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together.
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