relieve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 减轻， 解除， 援救， 救济， 换班，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：
-- When Wilson came to relieve the watch, he found the geographer plunged into a deep reverie.
-- Then he tears his breast with his beak, to relieve himself of his fat, and so becomes lighter.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If he were safely out of the country it would relieve the tax-payer of a burden.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You did not think I should start at the first word from you, and you merely wrote to relieve your conscience.
-- I've ar-ranged it all with Moloftsoff, and have just come in to relieve your mind on that score.
-- Arrived home again, the prince sent for Vera Lebedeff and told her as much as was necessary, in order to relieve her mind, for she had been in a dreadful state of anxiety since she had missed the letter.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Agamemnon answered, 'I trust, dear Menelaus, that it may be even so, but the surgeon shall examine your wound and lay herbs upon it to relieve your pain.'
-- Many and brave comrades followed the son of Telamon, to relieve him of his shield when he was overcome with sweat and toil, but the Locrians did not follow so close after the son of Oileus, for they could not hold their own in a hand-to-hand fight.
-- With these words he satisfied his brother, and the two went towards the part of the battle where the fight was thickest, about Cebriones, brave Polydamas, Phalces, Or-thaeus, godlike Polyphetes, Palmys, Ascanius, and Morys son of Hippotion, who had come from fertile Ascania on the preceding day to relieve other troops.
-- All the gods in Olympus were in a fury, but they could not reach you to set you free; when I caught any one of them I gripped him and hurled him from the heavenly threshold till he came fainting down to earth; yet even this did not relieve my mind from the incessant anxiety which I felt about noble Hercules whom you and Boreas had spite-fully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos, after suborning the tempests; but I rescued him, and notwithstanding all his mighty labours I brought him back again to Argos.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We relieve our conscience by the confession, at all events leav-ing it to exercise its authority as it may see fit.
-- 'It is refreshing both to the spirits and to the body to indulge in psalmody, in befitting seasons,' returned the master of song, unhesitatingly complying with her intima-tion to follow; 'and nothing would relieve the mind more than such a consoling communion.
-- Cunningly resuming his former posi-tion, though with a change of hands, as if the movement had been made merely to relieve the limb, the native await-ed the result with a calmness and fortitude that none but an Indian warrior would have known how to exercise.
-- 'Let us, then, push for the place, and relieve our doubts,' said the impatient Duncan; 'the party must be small that can lie on such a bit of land.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Mrs Jiniwin bounced into the room with great impetuosity; for, supposing her son-in-law to be still a-bed, she had come to relieve her feelings by pronouncing a strong opinion upon his general conduct and character.
-- It was upon this lady, then, that Mr Swiveller burst in full freshness as something new and hitherto undreamed of, lighting up the office with scraps of song and merriment, conjuring with inkstands and boxes of wafers, catching three oranges in one hand, balancing stools upon his chin and penknives on his nose, and constantly performing a hundred other feats with equal ingenuity; for with such unbendings did Richard, in Mr Brass's absence, relieve the tedium of his confinement.
-- I assure you that if you could give me any assistance, you would not be sorry to do so, if you knew how greatly I stand in need of it, and what a load it would relieve me from.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it is, they talk together and relieve their feelings."
-- At first, when written to for aid, he proceeded immediately to intercede for the applicants, endeavoring to relieve their condition, but in the end their number became so great that he found it impossible to help every one, and was involuntarily brought to a fourth matter, which had of late occupied him more than either of the others.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon these assurances, I resolved to venture to relieve them, if possible, and to send the old savage and this Span-iard over to them to treat.
-- 'Be in no fear about that, sir,' said I; 'if God had sent an an-gel to relieve you, he would have come better clothed, and armed after another manner than you see me; pray lay aside your fears; I am a man, an Englishman, and disposed to assist you; you see I have one servant only; we have arms and ammunition; tell us freely, can we serve you?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you knew what a consolation it was to me to relieve my heart speaking to you of what I am always thinking of every moment of my life, your compassion would make you overlook every thing else I am sure."
-- The composure of mind with which I have brought myself at present to consider the matter, the consolation that I have been willing to admit, have been the effect of constant and painful exertion; they did not spring up of themselves; they did not occur to relieve my spirits at first. No, Marianne. THEN, if I had not been bound to silence, perhaps nothing could have kept me entirely not even what I owed to my dearest friends from openly shewing that I was VERY unhappy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anything to relieve his mental distress, to satisfy his craving for comfort.
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