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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I am glad she is gone to settle in Ireland.'
-- But Emma, in her own mind, determined that he did know what he was talking about, and that he shewed a very ami-able inclination to settle early in life, and to marry, from worthy motives.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A curved settle of unplaned oak stretched along one side, and in a remote corner was a small bed and bedstead, the owner and frequent occupier of which was the maltster.
-- MISTRESS AND MENHalf-an-hour later Bathsheba, in finished dress, and followed by Liddy, entered the upper end of the old hall to find that her men had all deposited themselves on a long form and a settle at the lower extremity.
-- We'll settle in a few days."
-- The brain gets muddled, the head grows heavy, and the body's centre of gravity seems to settle by degrees in a leaden lump somewhere between the eyebrows and the crown.
-- It is to the credit of men that few attempt to settle the question by experiment, and it is for their happiness, perhaps, that accident has never settled it for them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, I nodded, and then he nodded again, and made room on the settle beside him that I might sit down there.
-- The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
-- Then, and not sooner, I became aware of a strange gentleman leaning over the back of the settle opposite me, looking on.
-- I wondered whether the two swollen faces were of Mr. Jaggers's family, and, if he were so unfortunate as to have had a pair of such ill-looking relations, why he stuck them on that dusty perch for the blacks and flies to settle on, instead of giving them a place at home.
-- There stood the man whom I had seen on the settle at the Three Jolly Bargemen on a Saturday night, and who had brought me down with his invisible gun!
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the willow-wren sent down the hornet, with orders to settle beneath the fox's tail, and sting with all his might.
-- When they had brought home the princess to her father, there was great rejoicing; and he said to the four brothers, 'One of you shall marry her, but you must settle amongst yourselves which it is to be.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients.
-- He arrives at New Holland, hoping to settle there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder.
-- As if an astronomical observatory should be made without any windows, and the astronomer within should arrange the starry universe solely by pen, ink, and paper, so Mr. Gradgrind, in his Observatory (and there are many like it), had no need to cast an eye upon the teeming myriads of human beings around him, but could settle all their destinies on a slate, and wipe out all their tears with one dirty little bit of sponge.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe it will settle all your doubts, difficulties and objections."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we don't settle something by to-morrow, I shall telegraph to Father, and we shall take Connie away.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Settle it strictly on herself,' the professional gentleman would complacently answer.
-- Plornish, having been made acquainted with the cause of action from the Defendant's own mouth, gave Arthur to understand that the Plaintiff was a 'Chaunter' meaning, not a singer of anthems, but a seller of horses and that he (Plornish) considered that ten shillings in the pound 'would settle handsome,' and that more would be a waste of money.
-- 'Indeed I have little doubt,' said Flora, running on with astonishing speed, and pointing her conversation with nothing but commas, and very few of them, 'that you are married to some Chinese lady, being in China so long and being in business and naturally desirous to settle and extend your connection nothing was more likely than that you should propose to a Chinese lady and nothing was more natural I am sure than that the Chinese lady should accept you and think herself very well off too, I only hope she's not a Pagodian dissenter.'
-- Then Gowan asserting his rights as a disappointed man who had his grudge against the family, and who, perhaps, had allowed his mother to have them there, as much in the hope it might give them some annoyance as with any other benevolent object, aired his pencil and his poverty ostentatiously before them, and told them he hoped in time to settle a crust of bread and cheese on his wife, and that he begged such of them as (more fortunate than himself) came in for any good thing, and could buy a picture, to please to remember the poor painter.
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