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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course it would be a great relief to me to ask you several questions, sir; but I remember your prohibition."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't talk to you so as to lighten your mind, for I never see any amusing sights or read any amusing books that it would be a pleasure or a relief to you to talk about, when you are tired.'
-- He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.
-- Though it would cost him a hard pang to leave her, and though he could think of no similar place in which his condemnation would not pursue him, perhaps it was almost a relief to be forced away from the endurance of the last four days, even to unknown difficulties and distresses.
-- Upon a nature long accustomed to self-suppression, thus torn and divided, the Harthouse philosophy came as a relief and justification.
-- If I might venture to remark that it is the least in the world deficient in that delicacy to which a youth mistaken, a character misconceived, and abilities misdirected, would turn for relief and guidance, I should express what it presents to my own view.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The relief was not instantaneous, for under the influence of the hideous nightmare my senses had become numbed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything was bolted and barred that could by possibility furnish relief to an overworked people.
-- Crushed at first by his imprisonment, he had soon found a dull relief in it.
-- 'Understand me!I don't say,' he replied in his steady, planning way, and looking into the distance before him as if his grey eye were measuring it, 'that it's recompense for a man's toil and hope; but it's a certain sort of relief to know that I might have counted on this.'
-- The stare of indignant wonder with which Young Barnacle accompanied this disclosure, would have strained his eyes injuriously but for the opportune relief of dinner.
-- Therefore to have the opportunity of speaking to one so well informed about it as yourself, is an immense relief to me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact it was an immense relief to them all to have a lit-tle work, and they took hold with a will, but soon realized the truth of Hannah's saying, 'Housekeeping ain't no joke.'
-- Mrs. March would not hear of the old gentleman's undertaking the long journey, yet an expression of relief was visible when he spoke of it, for anxiety ill fits one for traveling.
-- 'How kind you all are!Mother will accept, I'm sure, and it will be such a relief to know that she has someone to take care of her.
-- To her great relief and surprise, the old gentleman only threw his spectacles onto the table with a rattle and ex-claimed frankly, 'You're right, girl, I am!I love the boy, but he tries my patience past bearing, and I know how it will end, if we go on so.'
-- 'You have only to wait, I am to do the work,' said John beginning his labors by picking up Meg's napkin, with an expression which caused Jo to shake her head, and then say to herself with an air of relief as the front door banged, 'Here comes Laurie.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a relief it was to choking Stubb, when a rat made a sudden racket in the hold below.
-- How glad and how grateful the relief from this unnatural hallucination of the night, and the fatal contingency of being brought by the lee!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people.
-- Whether his meditations were so intense as to be disturbed by the dog's winking, or whether his feelings were so wrought upon by his reflections that they required all the relief derivable from kicking an unoffending animal to allay them, is matter for argument and consideration.
-- The Jew wiped his forehead: and smiled, as if it were a relief to have the disturbance over; but neither he, nor Sikes, nor the dog, nor the boys, seemed to consider it in any other light than a common occurance incidental to business.
-- 'But don't you think out-of-door relief a very bad thing, any way, Mr. Bumble?
-- The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.'
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