appoint是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 任命， 委派； 指定， 约定(时间、 地点等)，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Will you appoint a meeting for six months hence?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his speeches Pickerbaugh commended Pugh for "that firm integrity and ready sympathy with which His Honor had backed up every movement for the public weal," and when Pickerbaugh (quite honestly) begged, "Mr. Mayor, if I go to Congress you must appoint Arrowsmith in my place; he knows nothing about politics but he's incorruptible," then Pugh gave his promise, and amity abode in that land.
-- They consent I should appoint an Assistant Director to do the detail.
-- "I am authorized to appoint an Assistant Director, and I think I'm safe in saying he would succeed me as full Director.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 380But I told Traddles, and Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, that before Icould think of leaving, they must appoint a day when they wouldcome and dine with me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he arrived in Rome, where the Pope had just died, and there was great doubt among the cardinals as to whom they should appoint as his successor.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A messenger was despatched half a day's journey before us, to give the king notice of my approach, and to desire, 'that his majesty would please to appoint a day and hour, when it would by his gracious plea-sure that I might have the honour to lick the dust before his footstool.'
-- The king was much delighted with my company, and or-dered his bliffmarklub, or high-chamberlain, to appoint a lodging in the court for me and my interpreter; with a dai-ly allowance for my table, and a large purse of gold for my common expenses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To these he responded with the greatest liberality, and with no lack of formality; always first writing to appoint a time at which the applicant might wait upon him in his room, and then receiving him in the midst of a vast accumulation of documents, and accompanying his donation (for he said in every such case, 'it is a donation, not a loan') with a great deal of good counsel: to the effect that he, the expiring Father of the Marshalsea, hoped to be long remembered, as an example that a man might preserve his own and the general respect even there.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down lances!And now, ye mates, I do appoint ye three cupbearers to my three pagan kinsmen there yon three most honorable gentlemen and noblemen, my valiant harpooneers.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last it occurred to my thoughts that I shook a bag of chickens' meat out in that place; and then the wonder began to cease; and I must confess my religious thankfulness to God's providence began to abate, too, upon the discovering that all this was nothing but what was common; though I ought to have been as thankful for so strange and unforeseen a providence as if it had been miraculous; for it was really the work of Providence to me, that should order or appoint that ten or twelve grains of corn should remain unspoiled, when the rats had destroyed all the rest, as if it had been dropped from heaven; as also, that I should throw it out in that par-ticular place, where, it being in the shade of a high rock, it sprang up immediately; whereas, if I had thrown it any-where else at that time, it had been burnt up and destroyed.
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