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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is strong reason now to believe that he has got right away, which is a considerable relief to the lonely householders of this district.
-- He helps to keep our lives from being monotonous and gives a little comic relief where it is badly needed.
-- Sir Henry rubbed his hands with pleasure, and it was evident that he hailed the adventure as a relief to his somewhat quiet life upon the moor.
-- It was a relief to me, after that unnatu-ral restraint, when we at last passed Frankland's house and knew that we were drawing near to the Hall and to the scene of action.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hearing and seeing this, the prince smiled happily, and in accents of relief and joy, he exclaimed 'Well, thank God thank God!'
-- He said to me, 'Your excitement and dreams will find relief at Pav-lofsk.'
-- She broke loose from him with an air of relief and ran away.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him my name, Edward Prendick, and how I had taken to Natural History as a relief from the dulness of my comfortable independence.
-- There's nothing gained but a little relief if I respect your confidence.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the inner angle of the mound he met the sisters, walking along the parapet, in search, like himself, of air and relief from confinement.
-- Notwithstanding the horror excited by the presence of her captor, there was a present relief in escaping from the bloody scene enacting on the plain, to which Cora could not be altogether insensible.
-- The whole landscape, which, seen by a favoring light, and in a genial tempera-ture, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects were arrayed in their harshest but truest colors, and without the relief of any shadowing.
-- The father and the lover found instant relief in the search; though each was condemned again to experience the misery of an uncertainty that was hardly less insup- portable than the most revolting truth.
-- Thus far the knowledge of Heyward assisted him in the explanation; and as he now knew that the interruption was caused by the unlooked-for return of a successful war-party, every disagreeable sensation was qui-eted in inward congratulation, for the opportune relief and insignificance it conferred on himself.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on per-ceiving that he was headless!but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pom-mel of his saddle!His terror rose to desperation; he rained a shower of kicks and blows upon Gunpowder, hoping by a sudden movement to give his companion the slip; but the spectre started full jump with him.
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：
-- I was beginning to be bored with a tragedy that did not really concern me, and pretending to myself that I spoke in order to distract Stroeve, I turned with relief to other subjects.
-- It was with a sigh of relief that at last he came upon the little unpainted house, extraordinarily bedraggled now, and unkempt; but here too was the same intolerable silence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The island was displayed under their eyes, like a plan in relief with different tints, green for the forests, yellow for the sand, blue for the water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think he would have amused one anywhere, but the child's exquisite enjoyment of his oddity, and the relief it was to find that there was something she associated with merriment in a place that appeared so unsuited to her, were quite irresistible.
-- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject.
-- Kit, in the relief of having made his proposition, found his tongue loosened, and spoke out in its favour with his utmost eloquence.
-- She saw in this, but a return of the simple pleasures they had once enjoyed, a relief from the gloomy solitude in which she had lived, an escape from the heartless people by whom she had been surrounded in her late time of trial, the restoration of the old man's health and peace, and a life of tranquil happiness.
-- Therefore, it was a relief to vex his heart with a picture of the riches the old man hoarded, and to expatiate on his cunning in removing himself even beyond the reach of importunity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was no relief even there, and he drew in long breaths when the train rolled out beyond the houses and the movement of the train created a draught.
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