adapt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 使适应; 改编，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：
-- Glenarvan, an experienced traveler, who knew how to adapt himself to the customs of other countries, adopted the Chilian costume for himself and his whole party.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying, Mr Quilp put his hat on and took himself off, and Mrs Quilp, who was afflicted beyond measure by the recollection of the part she had just acted, shut herself up in her chamber, and smothering her head in the bed-clothes bemoaned her fault more bitterly than many less tender-hearted persons would have mourned a much greater offence; for, in the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article, which will bear a deal of stretching and adapt itself to a great variety of circumstances.
-- CHAPTER 38Kit for it happens at this juncture, not only that we have breathing time to follow his fortunes, but that the necessities of these adventures so adapt themselves to our ease and inclination as to call upon us imperatively to pursue the track we most desire to take Kit, while the matters treated of in the last fifteen chapters were yet in progress, was, as the reader may suppose, gradually familiarising himself more and more with Mr and Mrs Garland, Mr Abel, the pony, and Barbara, and gradually coming to consider them one and all as his particular private friends, and Abel Cottage, Finchley, as his own proper home.
-- The baleful sounds had hardly died away, and Mr Swiveller was still sitting in a very grim state in the clients' chair, when there came a ring or, if we may adapt the sound to his then humour, a knell at the office bell.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the only portion of this story that has been previously published, and it has been entirely recast to adapt it to the narrative form.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had taken them out now, to adapt herself, I 616suppose, to the altered character of the house; and wore but one ortwo disconsolate bows of sober brown.
-- I had endeavouredto adapt Dora to myself, and found it impracticable.
-- It remainedfor me to adapt myself to Dora; to share with her what I could, andbe happy; to bear on my own shoulders what I must, and be stillhappy.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am much mistaken if Emma's doctrines give any strength of mind, or tend at all to make a girl adapt her-self rationally to the varieties of her situation in life. They only give a little polish.'
-- 'My idea of him is, that he can adapt his conversation to the taste of every body, and has the power as well as the wish of being universally agreeable.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He meant, like all great souls, that his success should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by the vertigo that seizes on youth when youth sees itself alone in a wide sea, uncertain how to spend its energies, whither to steer its course, how to adapt its sails to the winds.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Urged thus far, I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an element which I had willingly chosen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (I saw the idea suddenly break upon him that he would adapt his epitaph to the occasion, before he went on to say) "And there weren't no objection on your part, and Pip it were the great wish of your hart!"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you and I can do that together...don't you think?...if we adapt our-selves to the necessities, and at the same time weave the adaptation together into a piece with our steadily-lived life.
-- The world is more or less a fixed thing and, externally, we have to adapt ourselves to it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, her mother and I were not young when we married, and Pet has always had a sort of grown-up life with us, though we have tried to adapt ourselves to her.
-- I am going to try, more than ever, to adapt myself as you wish to what surrounds me for indeed I have tried all along, though I have failed, I know.'
-- And I tell you again, darling, that Mrs General, if I may reverse a common proverb and adapt it to her, is a cat in gloves who will catch mice.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I endeavoured to clear up this fraud to my man Friday; and told him that the pretence of their old men going up to the mountains to say O to their god Benamuckee was a cheat; and their bringing word from thence what he said was much more so; that if they met with any answer, or spake with any one there, it must be with an evil spirit; and then I entered into a long discourse with him about the devil, the origin of him, his rebellion against God, his enmity to man, the reason of it, his setting himself up in the dark parts of the world to be worshipped instead of God, and as God, and the many stratagems he made use of to delude mankind to their ruin; how he had a secret access to our passions and to our affections, and to adapt his snares to our inclinations, so as to cause us even to be our own tempters, and run upon our destruction by our own choice.
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