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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Come along, prince, and settle the question.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were like great flocks of geese, or cranes, or swans on the plain about the waters of Cayster, that wing their way hither and thither, glorying in the pride of flight, and crying as they settle till the fen is alive with their screaming.
-- And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean is-lands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer of Mars, and the son of valiant Phyleus, dear to Jove, who quarrelled with his father, and went to settle in Dulichium.
-- He filled both hands with dust from off the ground, and poured it over his head, disfiguring his comely face, and let- ting the refuse settle over his shirt so fair and new.
-- Then, as soon as he had satisfied himself with looking at it, he said to his mother, 'Mother, the god has given me armour, meet handiwork for an immortal and such as no-one living could have fashioned; I will now arm, but I much fear that flies will settle upon the son of Menoetius and breed worms about his wounds, so that his body, now he is dead, will be disfigured and the flesh will rot.'
-- Let us stay this fighting at once and let them settle it among themselves.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not go abroad in snow it would settle on me and expose me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why can't you be sensible and settle your places quietly?
-- This cheered him immensely; and when he came back to Novastoshnah that summer, Matkah, his mother, begged him to marry and settle down, for he was no longer a hol-luschick but a full-grown sea-catch, with a curly white mane on his shoulders, as heavy, as big, and as fierce as his father.
-- 'Now I have Nagaina to settle with, and she will be worse than five Nags, and there's no knowing when the eggs she spoke of will hatch.
-- 'Well!It may be some consolation to you when you're dead to know that I shall settle accounts with the boy.
-- 'I will settle my account with you presently.
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：
-- Duncan remained to settle the terms of the capitulation.
-- Uncas, come this way, lad, and let the ravens settle upon the Mingo.
-- Such a glittering gew-gaw, and not to be seen!Well, well, I can squint along a clouded barrel yet, and that is enough to settle all disputes between me and the Mingoes.
-- 'The marquis of Montcalm can only settle that error with his God,' said the young man solemnly.
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：
-- He'll come back with his tail between his legs and settle down again quite comfortably."
-- Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth.
-- Well, after I'd talked to her I sent for Strickland, and I said to him: 'Strickland, it's time for you to settle down.
-- And at the end of a month, if you decide you want to marry her, you can just go and settle down on her property.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, on the one hand it was important to settle themselves in the neighborhood of a good stream of water, and on the other it was possible that the current had thrown Cyrus Harding on the shore there.
-- A more perfect survey had to be made to settle the point.
-- They must provide for their most pressing wants, settle their dwelling, and lay in a store of food; thus the cold might come upon them before the question of clothes had been settled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In point of fact, it would seem that the waiter felt this wholesome truth, for when he returned for the empty plates and dishes and was informed by Mr Swiveller with dignified carelessness that he would call and settle when he should be passing presently, he displayed some perturbation of spirit and muttered a few remarks about 'payment on delivery' and 'no trust,' and other unpleasant subjects, but was fain to content himself with inquiring at what hour it was likely that the gentleman would call, in order that being presently responsible for the beef, greens, and sundries, he might take to be in the way at the time.
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