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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now Alec Carmichael was on the staff of half a dozen hospitals.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, and slung his silver-studded sword about his shoulders; then he took the imperish-able staff of his father, and sallied forth to the ships of the Achaeans.
-- But when he came across any common man who was making a noise, he struck him with his staff and rebuked him, saying, 'Sirrah, hold your peace, and listen to better men than yourself.
-- On this he beat him with his staff about the back and shoulders till he dropped and fell a-weeping.
-- Polydamas vaunted loudly over him saying, 'Again I take it that the spear has not sped in vain from the strong hand of the son of Pan-thous; an Argive has caught it in his body, and it will serve him for a staff as he goes down into the house of Hades.'
-- An attendant placed his staff in his hands and bade the Argives keep silence: the hero then addressed them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the history of every prisoner was known to everyone in prison, she knew Maslova's history, and advised him to procure her removal to the ward for politicals, or, at least, to the hospital, which was just now crowded, requiring a larger staff of nurses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a few articles of clothing for herself to carry, and a few for him; old garments, such as became their fallen fortunes, laid out to wear; and a staff to support his feeble steps, put ready for his use.
-- At length, they found, one day, that he had risen early, and, with his knapsack on his back, his staff in hand, her own straw hat, and little basket full of such things as she had been used to carry, was gone.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This year the staff of the Grammar-School was invited, along with the chief officials of the firm.
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