preside是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (at， over) 主持，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all his Weeks, Pickerbaugh had time to preside over the Program Committee of the State Convention of Health Officers and Agencies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Jarley was not slow to express her admiration at this happy result, and carried her young friend and pupil to inspect the remaining arrangements within doors, by virtue of which the passage had been already converted into a grove of green-baize hung with the inscription she had already seen (Mr Slum's productions), and a highly ornamented table placed at the upper end for Mrs Jarley herself, at which she was to preside and take the money, in company with his Majesty King George the Third, Mr Grimaldi as clown, Mary Queen of Scots, an anonymous gentleman of the Quaker persuasion, and Mr Pitt holding in his hand a correct model of the bill for the imposition of the window duty.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips exclaimed, 'By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sent many messages of regret to himfrom behind her closed door and left the two frightened girls to preside over the supper table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, when Mrs. Sparsit said with forced lightness of heart, 'You want your breakfast, sir, but I dare say Miss Gradgrind will soon be here to preside at the table,' Mr. Bounderby replied, 'If I waited to be taken care of by my wife, ma'am, I believe you know pretty well I should wait till Doomsday, so I'll trouble you to take charge of the teapot.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He presented himself as deputation to escort the Father to the Chair, it being an occasion on which he had promised to preside over the assembled Collegians in the enjoyment of a little Harmony.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Jo, feeling that her late lessons in cookery were to do her honor, went to preside over the coffeepot, while the children col-lected dry sticks, and the boys made a fire and got water from a spring near by.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths, rescued the sacred volumes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her.
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