behalf是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 利益; 方面; 支持，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On their behalf though they are not here, I implore you to stand firm, and not to turn in flight.'
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：
-- 'There are evils worse than death,' said Duncan, speaking hoarsely, and as if fretful at her importunity, 'but which the presence of one who would die in your behalf may avert.'
-- After this termination of the scene, Duncan wan-dered among the lodges, unquestioned and unnoticed, endeavoring to find some trace of her in whose behalf he incurred the risk he ran.
-- Duncan had seen the threatening action, and sprang upon his feet, with a heart which, while it leaped into his throat, swelled with the most generous resolution in behalf of his friend.
-- Notwithstanding his rising resentment, his natural firm-ness, and his anxiety on behalf of Uncas, Heyward felt sensibly relieved by the absence of so dangerous and so sub-tle a foe.
-- said Alice, meekly folding her arms on her bosom, and struggling to conceal an agony of apprehension in behalf of Heyward, in the usual cold and distant manner with which she received the visits of her captor.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I've come to see you on behalf of your wife."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other boy, to whom this order was addressed, did as he was told, and was rewarded for his partizanship in behalf of his master, by a dexterous rap on the nose with the key, which brought the water into his eyes.
-- It must not be supposed (or it would be a gross injustice to Mr Quilp) that he was tortured by any disinterested anxiety on behalf of either.
-- It was plain, thought the dwarf, that he had come there, on behalf of his friend, to cajole or frighten the old man out of some small fraction of that wealth of which they supposed him to have an abundance.
-- The upshot of the business was, that Kit, after weighing the matter in his mind and considering it carefully, promised, on behalf of his mother, that she should be ready within two hours from that time to undertake the expedition, and engaged to produce her in that place, in all respects equipped and prepared for the journey, before the specified period had expired.
-- Giving utterance to these friendly aspirations in behalf of his client, Mr Sampson composed his face into its usual state of smoothness, and waiting until the shriek came again and was dying away, went up to the wooden house, and knocked at the door.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the petition in behalf of Theodosia Brinkova is ready.
-- "I have already told you that I am here in behalf of Maslova."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him: and to say the tru th I did the same; and we plagued and went on with him shamefully: for I wasn't reasonable enough to feel my injustice, and the mistress never put in a word on his behalf when she saw him wronged.
-- And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter of an hour's supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace, had not his young mistress broken in upon him with a hurried command that he must run down the road, and, wherever Heathcliff had rambled, find and make him re enter directly!
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