patience是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 耐心， 忍耐，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 184 Gulliver's Travels I begged his patience to hear me tell my story, which I faithfully did, from the last time I left England, to the mo-ment he first discovered me.
-- But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him; and he asked them, 'whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not the touch he needed most at such a moment the touch that could calm the wild waters of his soul, as the uplifted hand of the sublimest love and patience could abate the raging of the sea yet it was a woman's hand too.
-- Not drawin nigh to fok, wi' kindness and patience an' cheery ways, that so draws nigh to one another in their monny troubles, and so cherishes one another in their distresses wi' what they need themseln like, I humbly believe, as no people the genelman ha seen in aw his travels can beat will never do 't till th' Sun turns t' ice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If my astonishment increased, my patience was well-nigh exhausted.
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：
-- Now quietly, subtly, she was unravel-ling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.
-- 'Oh, I've no patience with these romances.
-- But it's a delicate thing, and takes patience and the long pause.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But, young men,' resumed Mrs Merdle, 'and by young men you know what I mean, my love I mean people's sons who have the world before them they must place themselves in a better position towards Society by marriage, or Society really will not have any patience with their making fools of themselves.
-- In his tracking out of the claim to its complete establishment, Mr Pancks had shown a sagacity that nothing could baffle, and a patience and secrecy that nothing could tire.
-- It was not in reason to be expected that he should; if he could have lightly forgotten it, he could never have conceived it, or had the patience and perseverance to work it out.
-- It does no man any good to have his patience worn out, and to think himself ill-used.
-- Her part in the life outside the gate urged its pressing claims upon her too, and her patience untiringly responded to them.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharp-est reproof.
-- 'If one could have a fine house, full of nice girls, or go traveling, the summer would be delightful, but to stay at home with three selfish sisters and a grown-up boy was enough to try the patience of a Boaz,' complained Miss Malaprop, after several days devoted to pleasure, fret-ting, and ennui.
-- The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr. Brooke's patience to the utmost, displeased his grandfather by practicing half the af-ternoon, frightened the maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad, and, after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in gen-eral, till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself.
-- To her great relief and surprise, the old gentleman only threw his spectacles onto the table with a rattle and ex-claimed frankly, 'You're right, girl, I am!I love the boy, but he tries my patience past bearing, and I know how it will end, if we go on so.'
-- After a minute's silence, he looked down at Amy, who sat on the cricket at his feet, and said, with a caress of the shin-ing hair... 'I observed that Amy took drumsticks at dinner, ran er-rands for her mother all the afternoon, gave Meg her place tonight, and has waited on every on with patience and good humor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience of industry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you had had patience for a twelvemonth, at most, couldn't you have got him convicted, and sent safely out of the kingdom; perhaps for life?'
-- The patience of the two ladies was destined to undergo a longer trial than Mr. Losberne had led them to expect; for hour after hour passed on, and still Oliver slumbered heavily.
-- Mrs. Bumble, whose patience brooked no delay, caught up a bowl of soap-suds, and motioning him towards the door, ordered him instantly to depart, on pain of receiving the contents upon his portly person.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is amazing to me,' said Bingley, 'how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.'
-- Even Elizabeth might have found some trial of her patience in weather which totally suspended the improvement of her acquaintance with Mr. Wickham; and nothing less than a dance on Tuesday, could have made such a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday endurable to Kitty and Lydia.
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