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：
-- He advised its adoption, as it was hopeless to await the problematical arrival of a vessel in Twofold Bay.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First of all Hippolyte had arrived, early in the evening, and feeling decidedly better, had determined to await the prince on the verandah.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These stood before the gates like two high oak trees upon the mountains, that tower from their wide-spreading roots, and year after year battle with wind and rain even so did these two men await the onset of great Asius confidently and without flinching.
-- She came close up to him and said, 'Dear brother, I see you are hard pressed by Achil-les who is chasing you at full speed round the city of Priam, let us await his onset and stand on our defence.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I told you three days ago I was awaiting a remittance " "I told you two days ago I wasn't going to await no remittances.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I scrambled out at last on the westward bank, and with my heart beating loudly in my ears, crept into a tangle of ferns to await the issue.
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：
-- But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the ap-proach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
-- No exclamation of surprise escaped the father, nor was any question asked, or reply given, for sev-eral minutes; each appearing to await the moment when he might speak, without betraying womanish curiosity or childish impatience.
-- 'The Hurons, if they come, may not gain our position so easily as they think,' he slowly muttered; and propping his head back against the rock, he seemed to await the result in patience, though his gaze was unceasingly bent on the open avenue to their place of retreat.
-- Heyward ventured to hurl the tomahawk he had seized, too ardent to await the mo-ment of closing.
-- So soon as their visitor had passed, the observant war-riors fell back from the entrance, and arranging themselves about him, they seemed patiently to await the moment when it might comport with the dignity of the stranger to speak.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate, there was only one thing to be done to await the return of Neb and the reporter; but they must give up the feast of hard eggs which they had meant to prepare, and a meal of raw flesh was not an agreeable prospect either for themselves or for the others.
-- At eight o'clock Neb had not appeared, but there was no doubt that the frightful weather alone hindered his return, and that he must have taken refuge in some cave, to await the end of the storm or at least the return of day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy!Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.
-- Enjoining Tom Scott to await his return, and not to stand upon his head, or throw a summerset, or so much as walk upon his hands meanwhile, on pain of lingering torments, the dwarf threw himself into a boat, and crossing to the other side of the river, and then speeding away on foot, reached Mr Swiveller's usual house of entertainment in Bevis Marks, just as that gentleman sat down alone to dinner in its dusky parlour.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I own myself an ass, and I await your orders."
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：
-- If a studio were provided, she would be free to go on with her work, she would await the turn of events with complete serenity.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hindley hurried up from his paradise on the hearth, and seizing one of us by the collar, and the other by the arm, hurled both into the back kitchen; where, Joseph asseverated, "owd Nick would fetch us as sure as we were living: and, so comforted, we each sought a separate nook to await his advent.
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