settle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 安定， 安顿； 停息； 定居； 解决， 调停，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentleman from Tellson's had nothing left for it but to empty his glass with an air of stolid desperation, settle his odd little flaxen wig at the ears, and follow the waiter to Miss Manette's apartment.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But I would advise you to settle the thing as soon as may be," pursued Oblonsky, filling up his glass.
-- "One word more: in any case I advise you to settle the question soon.
-- You must settle with him, Konstantin Dmitrievitch," said the bailiff.
-- That year Countess Lidia Ivanovna declined to settle in Peterhof, was not once at Anna Arkadyevna's, and in conversation with Alexey Alexandrovitch hinted at the unsuitability of Anna's close intimacy with Betsy and Vronsky.
-- She had not the least idea what would settle the position, but she firmly believed that something would very soon turn up now.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He beamed on his loving students and cried: "Gentlemen, the trouble with too many doctors, even those splendid old pioneer war-horses who through mud and storm, through winter's chill blast and August's untempered heat, go bringing cheer and surcease from pain to the world's humblest, yet even these old Nestors not so infrequently settle down in a rut and never shake themselves loose.
-- Shall we settle in the country or in the city?
-- On top of this came urgent letters from Mr. Tozer, begging Martin to settle in Wheatsylvania.
-- They would settle in Wheatsylvania.
-- "I better cut this out," he said to Leora, "if I'm going to settle down in Wheatsylvania and tend to business and make a living--and I by golly am!"
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：
-- I say, Mr. Zametov, was I sensible or delirious yesterday; settle our dispute.'
-- Before the journey which may come off, I want to settle Mr. Luzhin, too.
-- I will put those two little ones and Polenka into some good orphan asylum, and I will settle fifteen hundred roubles to be paid to each on coming ofage, so that Sofya Semyonovna need have no anxiety about them.
-- 'I must settle Svidriga脙炉lov,' he thought, 'and as soon as possible; he, too, seems to be wait-ing for me to come to him of my own accord.'
-- There they would settle in the 750 Crime and Punishmenttown where Rodya was and all together would begin a new life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He names individuals among them(myself included), whom he could undertake to settle with onehand, and the other tied behind him.
-- If a client were slow to settle his bill ofcosts, Mr. Jorkins was resolved to have it paid; and howeverpainful these things might be (and always were) to the feelings ofMr. Spenlow, Mr. Jorkins would have his bond.
-- Why, the Ecclesiastical Delegates werethe advocates without any business, who had looked on at theround game when it was playing on both courts, and had seen thecards shuffled, and cut, and played, and had talked to all theplayers about it, and now came fresh, as judges, to settle the matterto the satisfaction of everybody!Discontented people might talk ofcorruption in the Commons, closeness in the Commons, and thenecessity of reforming the Commons, said Mr. Spenlow solemnly,in conclusion; but when the price of wheat per bushel had beenhighest, the Commons had been busiest; and a man might lay hishand upon his heart, and say this to the whole world.- 'Touch theCommons, and down comes the country!'
-- The pecuniarymeans of meeting our expenses, kept down to the utmost farthing,are obtained from him with great difficulty, and even under fearfulthreats that he will Settle himself (the exact expression); and heinexorably refuses to give any explanation whatever of thisdistracting policy.
-- The worm will settle my business in double-quick time.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is a point which you must settle with your feelings.'
-- He came to ask me whether I thought it would be imprudent in him to settle so early; whether I thought her too young: in short, whether I approved his choice al-together; having some apprehension perhaps of her being considered (especially since your making so much of her) as in a line of society above him.
-- Emma knew what was coming; they must have the letter over again, and settle how long he had been gone, and how much he was engaged in company, and what a favourite he was wherever he went, and how full the Master of the Cer-emonies' ball had been; and she went through it very well, with all the interest and all the commendation that could be requisite, and always putting forward to prevent Harriet's being obliged to say a word.
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