invitation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 邀请， 招待； 请柬，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：
-- It was impossible to refuse an invitation given with such heart, and Miss Grant and her brother consented to stay till Lord Glenarvan returned.
-- It was impossible not to accept an invitation given with such grace.
-- Glenarvan and his friends accepted the invitation most willingly.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This invitation to drink, couched, as it was, in such infor-mal terms, came very strangely from Nastasia Philipovna.
-- 'You thought I should accept this good child's invitation to ruin him, did you?'
-- The invitation made them rath-er uncomfortable.
-- If I had not formed a final resolve, but had decided to wait un-til the last minute, I should not leave my room, or accept his invitation to come and die at Pavlofsk.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You two should be of all men foremost when there is hard fighting to be done, for you are ever foremost to accept my invitation when we councillors of the Achaeans are hold-ing feast.
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：
-- The invitation was accepted; and the two warriors, attended by three or four of the old men, walked calmly away, leaving the rest of the tribe devoured by a desire to understand the reasons of so unusual a visit, and yet not betraying the least impatience by sign or word.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came clattering up to the school-door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry - making or 'quilting-frolic,' to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having, delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook, and was seen scampering, away up the Hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
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：
-- Mrs. Strickland asked me for my address, and a few days later I received an invitation to luncheon.
-- I think Mrs. Strickland was glad to show me her children, and she accepted my invitation with alacrity.
-- It seemed to me a little ungracious to decline an invitation of that sort, and I ascribed his refusal to lack of money.
-- He accepted willingly my invitation to remain for a few days in my apartment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the boy declined the invitation until his master was apparently a little off his guard, when he darted in and seizing the weapon tried to wrest it from his grasp.
-- Once investing the dwarf with a design of his own in abetting them, which the attainment of their purpose would serve, it was easy to believe him sincere and hearty in the cause; and as there could be no doubt of his proving a powerful and useful auxiliary, Trent determined to accept his invitation and go to his house that night, and if what he said and did confirmed him in the impression he had formed, to let him share the labour of their plan, but not the profit.
-- It required no great persuasion to induce the child to answer that they had better accept the invitation and remain.
-- She had some reason to be astonished, for the person who proffered the gracious invitation was no other than Daniel Quilp.
-- At last, he travelled back to the Wilderness, which was within rifle-shot of his bachelor retreat, and ordered tea in the wooden summer-house that afternoon for three persons; an invitation to Miss Sally Brass and her brother to partake of that entertainment at that place, having been the object both of his journey and his note.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without seeking to reconcile what was contradictory between Captain Nemo's manifest aversion to islands and continents, and his invitation to hunt in a forest, I contented myself with replying:"Let us first see where the Island of Crespo is."
-- During low water the natives roamed about near the Nautilus, but were not troublesome; I heard them frequently repeat the word "Assai," and by their gestures I understood that they invited me to go on land, an invitation that I declined.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before I came to live here, she commenced waiting no farther invitation to her story I was al most always at Wuthering Heights; because my mother had nursed Mr. Hindley Earnshaw, that was Hareton's father, and I got used to playing with the children: I ran errands too, and helped to make hay, and hung about the farm ready for anything that anybody would set me to.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She hardly explained to herself why this latest invitation appealed to her most "Shall I wear my hair as I did yesterday?"
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Others had to be coaxed, but when they heard that the toast was to be buttered on both sides, they all ended by accepting the invitation with the words, "We'll come to please you."
扩展阅读：