staff是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 木棍, 杆, 工作人员，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：
-- 'Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country.
-- If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician little more than a senior student.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From these decayed sons and daughters of Gaul, she had acquired such wonderful arts, that the woman and girl who formed the staff of domestics regarded her as quite a Sorceress, or Cinderella's Godmother: who would send out for a fowl, a rabbit, a vegetable or two from the garden, and change them into anything she pleased.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The petitioner, the widow of a staff captain Kalinin, came with a request impossible and unreasonable; but Stepan Arkadyevitch, as he generally did, made her sit down, heard her to the end attentively without interrupting her, and gave her detailed advice as to how and to whom to apply, and even wrote her, in his large, sprawling, good and legible hand, a confident and fluent little note to a personage who might be of use to her.
-- Having got rid of the staff captain's widow, Stepan Arkadyevitch took his hat and stopped to recollect whether he had forgotten anything.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bert Tozer, her brother; squirrel teeth, a gold eye-glass chain over his ear, cashier and all the rest of the staff in the one-room bank owned by his father.
-- In the enormous staff dining-room Gottlieb found scores of competent young chemists and biologists who treated him with reverence.
-- When the office staff arrived in the morning they found something that had but rarely occurred during the regime of Almus Pickerbaugh: the Director of the Department was transplanting cultures, and on a long table was his wife, asleep.
-- And indeed, as Martin met the staff at lunch, Wickett was the only one whom he did not find courteous, however brief their greetings.
-- The staff sat in Hall at two long tables, one on the dais, one below: tiny insect groups under the massy ceiling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Inshort I left her, when I went away at night, the prop and staff of 425Mr. Peggotty's affliction: and I could not meditate enough uponthe lesson that I read in Mrs. Gummidge, and the new experienceshe unfolded to me.
-- I walked through the streets; and, once more seeing my oldadversary the butcher- now a constable, with his staff hanging upin the shop- went down to look at the place where I had foughthim; and there meditated on Miss Shepherd and the eldest MissLarkins, and all the idle loves and likings, and dislikings, of thattime.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shepherd of each flock marched behind, a bundle containing his kit for the week strapped upon his shoulders, and in his hand his crook, which he used as the staff of his pilgrimage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he should have missed so much, and at his time of life should look so far about him for any staff to bear him company upon his downward journey and cheer it, was a just regret.
-- The file of mules, jaded by their day's work, turned and wound slowly up the deep ascent; the foremost led by a guide on foot, in his broad-brimmed hat and round jacket, carrying a mountain staff or two upon his shoulder, with whom another guide conversed.
-- Doyce was to go to Southampton to join the small staff of his fellow-travellers; and a coach was at the gate, well furnished and packed, and ready to take him there.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Brooke is commander in chief, I am commissary gen-eral, the other fellows are staff officers, and you, ladies, are company.
-- But he exulted in private and longed for the time to come when he could give Jo a piece of plate, with a bear and a ragged staff on it as an appropriate coat of arms.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
-- Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or twelve feet in length; the staff is much slighter than that of the harpoon, and also of a lighter material pine.
-- He minds you somewhat of a juggler, balancing a long staff on his chin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The constable looked as wise as he could, and took up his staff of office: which had been reclining indolently in the chimney-corner.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But having gotten over these things in some measure, and having settled my household staff and habitation, made me a table and a chair, and all as handsome about me as I could, I began to keep my journal; of which I shall here give you the copy (though in it will be told all these particulars over again) as long as it lasted; for having no more ink, I was forced to leave it off.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I promise you, Father, that I'll learn a trade, and I'll be the comfort and staff of your old age."
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