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：
-- His first mate would not delay the execution of an order for ten days.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mate practically assumed the command.
-- Neither the captain nor the mate would be-lieve my story, judging that solitude and danger had made me mad; and fearing their opinion might be that of others, I refrained from telling my adventure further, and professed to recall nothing that had happened to me between the loss of the 'Lady Vain' and the time when I was picked up again, the space of a year.
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：
-- "He was third mate on the Tropic Bird.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike.
-- "Is this here table for my mate Bill?"
-- I told him I did not know his mate Bill, and this was for a person who stayed in our house whom we called the captain.
-- "Well," said he, "my mate Bill would be called the captain, as like as not.
-- He has a cut on one cheek and a mighty pleasant way with him, particularly in drink, has my mate Bill.
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：
-- But now his father was passing away, Gerald found himself left exposed and unready before the storm of living, like the mutinous first mate of a ship that has lost his captain, and who sees only a terrible chaos in front of him.
-- He was really like one of the "little people' who have no soul, who has found his mate in a human being.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unhappy in your conjectures, sir,' observed my host; 'we neither of us have the privilege of owning your good fairy; her mate is dead.
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