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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last I rose to go to bed, much to the relief of the sleepy waiter,who had got the fidgets in his legs, and was twisting them, andhitting them, and putting them through all kinds of contortions inhis small pantry.
-- He told us a merry adventure of his own, as a relief to that, with asmuch gaiety as if the narrative were as fresh to him as it was to us-and little Em'ly laughed until the boat rang with the musicalsounds, and we all laughed (Steerforth too), in irresistiblesympathy with what was so pleasant and light-hearted.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was very compassionate; and the distresses of the poor were as sure of relief from her per-sonal attention and kindness, her counsel and her patience, as from her purse.
-- Well, (smiling,) I hope it may be allowed that if compassion has produced exertion and relief to the sufferers, it has done all that is truly important.
-- To Isabella, the relief of such tidings was very great, and they were scarcely less acceptable to Emma on her father's account, who was immediately set as much at ease on the subject as his nervous constitution allowed; but the alarm that had been raised could not be appeased so as to admit of any comfort for him while he continued at Randalls.
-- There she was welcomed, with the utmost delight, by her father, who had been trembling for the dangers of a soli-tary drive from Vicarage Lane turning a corner which he could never bear to think of and in strange hands a mere common coachman no James; and there it seemed as if her return only were wanted to make every thing go well: for Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel perfectly sensible of its be-ing exceedingly wholesome; and the day was concluding in peace and comfort to all their little party, except herself. But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheer-ful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
-- 'Ah!that's a great pity; for I assure you, Miss Wood-house, where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a single damn allowed; no, not a bare poor one, even at the most cheerful moment when all were blindest, though the good old word of sin thrown in here and there at such times is a great relief to a merry soul."
-- said Bathsheba, exhaling her relief in the form of a long breath which had lain in her bosom a minute or more.
-- The numerous evidences of her power to attract were only thrown into greater relief by a marked exception.
-- A week or two after the shearing, Bathsheba, feeling a nameless relief of spirits on account of Boldwood's absence, approached her hayfields and looked over the hedge towards the haymakers.
-- The exquisite relief of finding that she was here again, safe and sound, overpowered all reflection, and Oak could only luxuriate in the sense of it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the beginning of Eugene de Rastignac's second twelvemonth, this figure suddenly started out into bold relief against the background of human forms and faces among which the law student was yet to live for another two years to come.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me, but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations.
-- 'I know that the sympathy of a stranger can be but of little relief to one borne down as you are by so strange a misfortune.
-- I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett had no qualm of conscienceas she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape.
-- Go in the back yard and " She looked up and saw Prissy leaning out of the upstairs window, frightand worry written on her face; but in an instant they were wiped away in relief as she saw her mistress.
-- She sighed with relief and irritation.
-- Then Scarlett saw with relief the faint rise and fall of her shallow breathing andknew that Melanie had survived the night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The time came, without bringing with it any relief to my feelings, and the company came.
-- In my dreadful situation, it was a relief when he was brought back, and surveying the company all round as if they had disagreed with him, sank down into his chair with the one significant gasp, "Tar!"
-- To whom my sister, more for the relief of her own mind than for the gratification of his, related my pretended experiences.
-- In about a month after that, the Spider's time with Mr. Pocket was up for good, and, to the great relief of all the house but Mrs. Pocket, he went home to the family hole.
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