relief是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 减轻; 救济，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The immense relief of finding this a false alarm.
-- After it had passed away, they were ten times merrier than before, from the mere relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came to her relief with a fixed despair of himself which made the interview unlike any other that could have been holden.
-- But then, blessed with the relief of tears, I fell upon my knees, and blessed her.'
-- His shop was shut and he was not there, which was a relief to Lucie, and left her quite alone.
-- The having originated a precaution which was already in course of execution, was a great relief to Miss Pross.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at once in the conversation with the aide-de-camp Oblonsky had a sense of relaxation and relief after the conversation with Levin, which always put him to too great a mental and spiritual strain.
-- However, she was so anxious for the marriage itself, and still more for relief from her fears, that she believed it was so.
-- But when he was all alone in the carriage Alexey Alexandrovitch, to his surprise and delight, felt complete relief both from this pity and from the doubts and agonies of jealousy.
-- "Take my things," said Alexey Alexandrovitch, and feeling some relief at the news that there was still hope of her death, he went into the hall On the hatstand there was a military overcoat.
-- And pity for her, and remorse for having desired her death, and most of all, the joy of forgiveness, made him at once conscious, not simply of the relief of his own sufferings, but of a spiritual peace he had never experienced before.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They first passed through the "black town," with its narrow streets, its miserable, dirty huts, and squalid population; then through the "European town," which presented a relief in its bright brick mansions, shaded by coconut-trees and bristling with masts, where, although it was early morning, elegantly dressed horsemen and handsome equipages were passing back and forth.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- III When he was depressed by a wonder as to why he was here, listening to a Professor Robertshaw, repeating verses about fat-eared Germans, learning the trade of medicine like Fatty Pfaff or Irving Watters, then Martin had relief in what he considered debauches.
-- Back in 1881 he was confirming Pasteur's results in chicken cholera immunity and, for relief and pastime, trying to separate an enzyme from yeast.
-- His wife seemed better; his daughter Miriam found an excellent piano teacher; the boy Robert entered college that autumn; they had a spacious though decrepit house; the relief from the droning and the annually repeated, inevitable routine of the classroom was exhilarating; and Gottlieb had never in his life worked so well.
-- It may have been pique and it may have been relief that he was licensed to be alone with Orchid, but he ceased to speak to her as though she were a child and he a person laden with wisdom; ceased to speak to her as though he were looking over his shoulder.
-- Now and then it was a relief to have the surly intentness of Wickett instead of the elegance of Rippleton Holabird, which demanded from Martin so much painful elegance in turn, at a time when he was sunk beyond sounding in his experimentation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt he had cast off that fearful burden that had so long been weighing upon him, and all at once there was a sense of relief and peace in his soul.
-- At last he was conscious of his former fever and shivering, and he realised with relief that he could lie down on the sofa.
-- But having gone through so much in the morning, he found a sort of relief in a change of sensations, apart from the strong personal feeling which impelled him to defend Sonia.
-- At least he might have found relief in raging at his stu-pidity, as he had raged at the grotesque blunders that had brought him to prison.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no relief to turn round and findnobody; for wherever my back was, there I imagined somebodyalways to be.
-- What yawns and dozes I lapsed into, in spite of all my care; whatstarts I came out of concealed sleeps with; what answers I nevergot, to little observations that I rarely made; what a blank space Iseemed, which everybody overlooked, and yet was in everybody's 119way; what a heavy relief it was to hear Miss Murdstone hail thefirst stroke of nine at night, and order me to bed!
-- I have no relief but in puttingon my best clothes, and having my boots cleaned over and overagain.
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