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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No alterations were consequently needed in the DUNCAN herself; John Mangles had only to attend to her interior arrangements.
-- They were destined to attend the obsequies of the chief and the bloody rites that accompanied them.
-- Who would attend on them in the realm of Noui-Atoua, if their slaves did not follow them into the other world.
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：
-- 'But Dr. Mortimer has his practice to attend to, and his house is miles away from yours.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs.
-- To these questions they would answer, that he was getting better and better, and was expected aboard every day; meantime, the two captains, Peleg and Bildad, could attend to everything necessary to fit the vessel for the voyage.
-- Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod's weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of the leviathan; at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter almost indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the more special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts which are to follow.
-- Being the savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale's back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I put it on, I remember, for the first time, to attend the inquest on that reduced tradesman, who died in a doorway at midnight.'
-- 'I don't mean a regular mute to attend grown-up people, my dear, but only for children's practice.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lydia's intention of walking to Meryton was not forgot-ten; every sister except Mary agreed to go with her; and Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself; for thither Mr. Collins had followed him after breakfast; and there he would continue, nominally engaged with one of the largest folios in the collection, but really talking to Mr. Bennet, with little cessation, of his house and garden at Hunsford.
-- Hope was over, entirely over; and when Jane could attend to the rest of the letter, she found little, except the professed affection of the writer, that could give her any comfort.
-- The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned, brought on a headache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening, that, added to her unwillingness to see Mr. Darcy, it determined her not to attend her cousins to Ros-ings, where they were engaged to drink tea.
-- But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
-- She knew but little of their meeting in Derbyshire, and there-fore felt for the awkwardness which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then reflected, that as God, who was not only righteous but omnipotent, had thought fit thus to punish and afflict me, so He was able to deliver me: that if He did not think fit to do so, it was my unquestioned duty to resign myself absolutely and entirely to His will; and, on the other hand, it was my duty also to hope in Him, pray to Him, and quietly to attend to the dictates and directions of His daily providence, These thoughts took me up many hours, days, nay, I may say weeks and months: and one particular effect of my cogi-tations on this occasion I cannot omit.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.
-- She was seated in her mother's lap, covered with kisses, her wound bathed with lavender-water, by one of the Miss Steeles, who was on her knees to attend her, and her mouth stuffed with sugar plums by the other.
-- One or two meetings of this kind had taken place, without affording Elinor any chance of engaging Lucy in private, when Sir John called at the cottage one morning, to beg, in the name of charity, that they would all dine with Lady Middleton that day, as he was obliged to attend the club at Exeter, and she would otherwise be quite alone, except her mother and the two Miss Steeles.
-- The invitation was accepted; but when the hour of appointment drew near, necessary as it was in common civility to Mrs. Jennings, that they should both attend her on such a visit, Elinor had some difficulty in persuading her sister to go, for still she had seen nothing of Willoughby; and therefore was not more indisposed for amusement abroad, than unwilling to run the risk of his calling again in her absence.
-- They were engaged about the end of that time to attend Lady Middleton to a party, from which Mrs. Jennings was kept away by the indisposition of her youngest daughter; and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or staid, prepared, without one look of hope or one expression of pleasure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, when she reached her destination he did not alight and attend her baggage for her, it was because, in his own estimation, he had signally failed.
-- "Sure, I'll attend to it."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everybody yelled at him and laughed at him and sassed him, and he sassed back, and said he'd attend to them and lay them out in their regular turns, but he couldn't wait now because he'd come to town to kill old Colonel Sherburn, and his motto was, 'Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on.'
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