await是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 等候， 期待； (事情等) 降临于，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：
-- Then, perhaps, in the midst of a tribe in some Indian settlement on the shores of these almost unknown rivers, those whom I may call my friends await some providential intervention.
-- But Glenarvan thought for him, and pictured to himself the horrible fate that seemed to await him inevitably.
-- "The captain will await my instructions in the port of Melbourne."
-- There was nothing for it but to await the return of McNabbs.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We have peeped in at the windows in the town below!We know whither they are taken!The greatest splendor and the great-est magnificence one can imagine await them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now while he held his letter in his hands, he could not help picturing the challenge, which he would most likely find at home today or tomorrow, and the duel itself in which, with the same cold and haughty expression that his face was assuming at this moment he would await the injured husband's shot, after having himself fired into the air.
-- It must be admitted that the latter case is rarely met with in practice," said the lawyer, and stealing a glance at Alexey Alexandrovitch he paused, as a man selling pistols, after enlarging on the advantages of each weapon, might await his customer's choice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix did not insist, and was fain to resign himself to await the arrival of the important document; but he was determined not to lose sight of the mysterious rogue as long as he stayed in Bombay.
-- Chance had strangely favoured Phileas Fogg, for had not the Carnatic been forced to lie over for repairing her boilers, she would have left on the 6th of November, and the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to await for a week the sailing of the next steamer.
-- Mr. Fogg left the hotel alone, after giving Passepartout instructions to await his return, and inform Aouda to be ready at an instant's notice.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had already made a report of his work to the Director and the Trustees of the Institute, with no conclusion except "the results await statistical analysis and should have this before they are published."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Avdotya Romanovna seemed to await her turn, and following her mother out, gave Sonia an attentive, courte-ous bow.
-- Dounia at last became impatient and, leaving Sonia, went to her brother's room to await him there; she kept thinking that he would come there first.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the hotel where Mr. Micawber had requested us to await him,which we got into, with some trouble, in the middle of the night, Ifound a letter, importing that he would appear in the morningpunctually at half-past nine.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two I have already destroyed; other victims await their destiny; but you, Clerval, my friend, my benefactor ' The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.
-- You will not hear of my destruction, and you will anxiously await my return.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it drew towards the appointed hour, he went outside into the garden and mounted the tan-heap to await the raven.
-- When the hour came round again he went as usual on to the tan-heap in the garden to await the king's daughter, but he felt even more overcome with weariness than on the two previous days, and throwing himself down, he slept like a log.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sissy had come there when it was already dark, to await her return from work; and they had since sat at the window where Rachael had found her, wanting no brighter light to shine on their sorrowful talk.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not be expected to feel much courage in presence of the fearful fate that appeared to await me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change that I await here is the great change.'
-- A footman of rainbow hues, in the public eye, was sitting up for his master that is to say, was fast asleep in the kitchen over a couple of candles and a newspaper, demonstrating the great accumulation of mathematical odds against the probabilities of a house being set on fire by accident When this serving man was roused, Physician had still to await the rousing of the Chief Butler.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for Marianne, on the pangs which so unhappy a meeting must already have given her, and on those still more severe which might await her in its probable consequence, she could not reflect without the deepest concern.
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