allowance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 津贴，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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You think his allowance is plenty, don't you?"
-- "It is not the allowance that he wants, poor man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he considered on what a spare allowance of food she lived, how neglected and untaught she was, and how her natural cunning had been sharpened by necessity and privation, he scarcely doubted it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This member of the court, a very punctilious man, had this morning had an unpleasant encounter with his wife, which was caused by her spending her monthly allowance before the month was up.
-- Then, he needed no money, and wanted not a third part what his mother gave him, disclaimed title to his father's land, distributing it among the peasants; now, the fifteen hundred rubles' monthly allowance he received from his mother did not suffice for his needs, and he often made it the cause of unpleasant conversation with her.
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