attend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 出席， 参加； 照顾， 护理vi. 注意； 侍奉，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- used to attend the king's levee once or twice a week, and I had often seen him under the barber's hand, which in-deed was at first very terrible to behold; for the razor was almost twice as long as an ordinary scythe.
-- It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domes-tics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.
-- This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You know, as well as I do, no young people have circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses.
-- With my head in its present state, I couldn't remember the mere names of half the facts you have got to attend to.'
-- 'I came to tell him that her connections made her not an object for the school, and that she must not attend any more.
-- 'You'll have your own private apartments, and you'll have your coals and your candles, and all the rest of it, and you'll have your maid to attend upon you, and you'll have your light porter to protect you, and you'll be what I take the liberty of considering precious comfortable,' said Bounderby.
-- Did he see any faint reflection of his own image making a vain-glorious will, whereby five-and-twenty Humbugs, past five-and-fifty years of age, each taking upon himself the name, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, should for ever dine in Bounderby Hall, for ever lodge in Bounderby buildings, for ever attend a Bounderby chapel, for ever go to sleep under a Bounderby chaplain, for ever be supported out of a Bounderby estate, and for ever nauseate all healthy stomachs, with a vast amount of Bounderby balderdash and bluster?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To bear with him means to obey; and scarcely had his heavy feet resounded within our joint domicile than he shouted for me to attend upon him.
-- We must attend to that above all things," continued the Professor.
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：
-- Any good nurse can attend to crippled legs!And as for the heroic effort, Michaelis was a heroic rat, and Clifford was very much of a poodle showing off.
-- But when I have to go messing around at the police-station, and various other places, and waiting for a lot of fools to attend to me...oh well, I get mad...' and he smiled, with a certain faint humour.
-- I asked him if he thought he would be able to attend to his duty in the wood, and he said he did not think he had neglected it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am able,' said Mrs Clennam, with a slight motion of her worsted-muffled right hand toward a chair on wheels, standing before a tall writing cabinet close shut up, 'I am able to attend to my business duties, and I am thankful for the privilege.
-- And you attend to him and look after him, Amy, a great deal more than ever your sister will.
-- 'I can work and attend too.
-- When they were gone, the Father of the Marshalsea was at first inclined to sink into despondency again, and would have done so, but that a gentleman opportunely came up within a minute or two to attend him to the Snuggery.
-- No!Nobody would attend to you if you did.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am a stupid thing, and ought to be studying, not playing,' was Beth's resolution, while Amy followed their example by heroically declaring, 'I shall learn to make buttonholes, and attend to my parts of speech.'
-- CHAPTER TWELVEBeth was postmistress, for, being most at home, she could attend to it regularly, and dearly liked the daily task of unlocking the little door and distributing the mail.
-- 'I shall go to my Kings, though I'd much rather stay at home and attend to things here,' said Meg, wishing she hadn't made her eyes so red.
-- Meg is happy, Brooke will fly round and get settled immediately, Grandpa will attend to him, and it will be very jolly to see Meg in her own little house.
-- I'll give up my place here at once, and attend to the flowers, if you like.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite late in the evening when the little Moss came snugly to anchor, and Queequeg and I went ashore; so we could attend to no business that day, at least none but a supper and a bed.
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