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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VIII PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEYGLENARVAN never lost much time between adopting an idea and carrying it out.
-- The next day passed without any appearance of preparation for their punishment; and this was the reason of the delay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him I would do so, with all the interest and curiosity that his preparation awakened.
-- "Which I meantersay, Pip," Joe whispered me, as we were being what Mr. Trabb called "formed" in the parlor, two and two,--and it was dreadfully like a preparation for some grim kind of dance; "which I meantersay, sir, as I would in preference have carried her to the church myself, along with three or four friendly ones wot come to it with willing harts and arms, but it were considered wot the neighbors would look down on such and would be of opinions as it were wanting in respect."
-- But he insisted on walking home with me, in order that I might make no extra preparation for him, and first he had a letter or two to write, and (of course) had his hands to wash.
-- This was all the preparation I received for that visit, or for others like it; Miss Havisham never wrote to me, nor had I ever so much as seen her handwriting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she read on, years seemed to fall away from her son like the imaginings of a dream, and all the old dark horrors of his usual preparation for the sleep of an innocent child to overshadow him.
-- Clennam, who had been almost incessantly shaking hands with him throughout the narrative, was reminded by this to say, in an amazement which even the preparation he had had for the main disclosure smoothed down, 'My dear Mr Pancks, this must have cost you a great sum of money.'
-- The preparation consisted in the despatch of her maid to Paris under the protection of the Courier, for the purchase of that outfit for a bride on which it would be extremely low, in the present narrative, to bestow an English name, but to which (on a vulgar principle it observes of adhering to the language in which it professes to be written) it declines to give a French one.
-- Yet there was a nameless air of preparation in the room, as if it were strung up for an occasion.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each had made such preparation for the fete as seemed nec-essary and proper.
-- John laughed, and watched her for a minute, as she poised a pretty little preparation of lace and flowers on her hand, and regarded it with the genuine interest which his harangue had failed to waken.
-- It was well for all that this peaceful time was given them as preparation for the sad hours to come, for by-and-by, Beth said the needle was 'so heavy', and put it down forever.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now that he had apparently made every preparation for death; now that his coffin was proved a good fit, Queequeg suddenly rallied; soon there seemed no need of the carpenter's box: and thereupon, when some expressed their delighted surprise, he, in substance, said, that the cause of his sudden convalescence was this; at a critical moment, he had just recalled a little duty ashore, which he was leaving undone; and therefore had changed his mind about dying: he could not die yet, he averred.
-- Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits shortly to be anticipated, Perth, the begrimed, blistered old blacksmith, had not removed his portable forge to the hold again, after concluding his contributory work for Ahab's leg, but still retained it on deck, fast lashed to ringbolts by the foremast; being now almost incessantly invoked by the headsmen, and harpooneers, and bowsmen to do some little job for them; altering, or repairing, or new shaping their various weapons and boat furniture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of course they will get you into parliament at the election before Christmas, and these sudden shiftings and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a slight preparation for good news, the letter was read aloud.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all rose up in preparation for a round game.
-- Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given.
-- "Really," said Elinor, "I know so little of these kind of forms, that I can hardly even conjecture as to the time, or the preparation necessary; but I suppose two or three months will complete his ordination."
-- From a reverie of this kind she was recalled at the end of some minutes by Willoughby, who, rousing himself from a reverie at least equally painful, started up in preparation for going, and said "There is no use in staying here; I must be off."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the interval which marked the preparation of the meal Carrie found time to study the flat.
-- This, and washing his face with the aid of common washing soap until it glowed a shiny red, constituted his only preparation for his evening meal.
-- There was a third room for possible use as a kitchen, where Drouet had Carrie establish a little portable gas stove for the preparation of small lunches, oysters, Welsh rarebits, and the like, of which he was exceedingly fond; and, lastly, a bath.
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