mate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 伙伴， 同事， 同伴， 配偶v. 结伴， 配对， 交配，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：
-- said Tom Austin, the mate of the DUNCAN.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they walked back, he perceived that she was incredibly the right mate for him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must perform my engagement and let the monster depart with his mate before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union from which I expected peace.
-- I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ay!That's a mate o' mine out there in British Columbia.
-- 'Did your mate send you a fortune?'
-- So he got a mate to help him, for it was a long way; and after all, they were two ladies.
-- The mate he brought was called Daniele.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't make plans, Jo, but let time and their own hearts mate your friends.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know Captain Ahab well; I've sailed with him as mate years ago; I know what he is a good man not a pious, good man, like Bildad, but a swearing good man something like me only there's a good deal more of him.
-- Tell me, when this same Pequod here had her three masts overboard in that typhoon on Japan, that same voyage when thou went mate with Captain Ahab, did'st thou not think of Death and the Judgment then?"
-- The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent.
-- The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard.
-- And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The eldest of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's inti- mate friend.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards evening the mate and boatswain begged the master of our ship to let them cut away the fore-mast, which he was very unwilling to do; but the boatswain protesting to him that if he did not the ship would founder, he consented; and when they had cut away the fore-mast, the main-mast stood so loose, and shook the ship so much, they were obliged to cut that away also, and make a clear deck.
-- It was my great misfortune that in all these adventures I did not ship myself as a sailor; when, though I might indeed have worked a little harder than ordinary, yet at the same time I should have learnt the duty and office of a fore-mast man, and in time might have qualified myself for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a master.
-- I was now set up for a Guinea trader; and my friend, to my great misfortune, dying soon after his arrival, I resolved to go the same voyage again, and I embarked in the same vessel with one who was his mate in the former voyage, and had now got the command of the ship.
-- In this distress the mate of our vessel laid hold of the boat, and with the help of the rest of the men got her slung over the ship's side; and getting all into her, let go, and com-mitted ourselves, being eleven in number, to God's mercy and the wild sea; for though the storm was abated consid-erably, yet the sea ran dreadfully high upon the shore, and might be well called DEN WILD ZEE, as the Dutch call the sea in a storm.
-- And now I lay no more for a while in the bed which I had brought on shore, but in a hammock, which was indeed a very good one, and belonged to the mate of the ship.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake's mate was there, and bit him.
-- That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remem-ber that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it.
-- 'I'm the captain and the owner and the mate and the pilot and watchman and head deck-hand; and some- times I'm the freight and passengers.
-- What a head for just a boy to have!If I had Tom Saw-yer's head I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of.
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