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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nelaton, the Tuileries surgeon, demanded a safe conduct, in the name of science, into the besieged city in order to attend my wounds.
-- Muishkin was so absent, that from the very first he could not attend to a word the other was saying; and when the general suddenly stopped before him with some excited question, he was obliged to confess, ignominiously, that he did not know in the least what he had been talking about.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let our squires attend to your own steeds, but let us drive mine straight at the Trojans, that Hector may learn how furiously I too can wield my spear.'
-- Mecisteus went once to Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, to attend his funer-al, and he beat all the people of Cadmus.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was a rest-less companion, because he had to get up and attend to every noise all through the night, and find out what made it.
-- Bad one!Wicked one!Worthless son!Go and wash Kala Nag and attend to his ears, and see that there are no thorns in his feet.
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：
-- I will attend them, when I have completed my morning praise, to which nothing is now wanting but the doxology.
-- They who heard it listened with a curdling horror at the heart, little inferior to that dread which may be expected to attend the blasts of the final summons.
-- Duncan, who was now made to understand the nature of the noise he had heard, answered, with more attention to the subject which the humor of the scout had chosen for discussion, by saying: 'It is difficult to account for the feelings that may attend the last great change.'
-- Heyward would gladly have heard more, but a gentle push from his friend urged him toward the door, and ad-monished him of the danger that might attend the discovery of their intercourse.
-- In short, any eye at all practised in the signs of a frontier warfare might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results which attend an Indian vengeance.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
-- He came clattering up to the school-door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry - making or 'quilting-frolic,' to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having, delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook, and was seen scampering, away up the Hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His father had encouraged him in it, by letting him attend the lectures of the best professors in Boston, who were very fond of the intelligent, industrious lad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pupils cared little for a companion who had no grand stories to tell about home; no friends to come with post-horses, and be received in all humility, with cake and wine, by the governess; no deferential servant to attend and bear her home for the holidays; nothing genteel to talk about, and nothing to display.
-- He was closeted with Mr Witherden for some little time, and Mr Abel had been called in to assist at the conference, before Kit, wondering very much what he was wanted for, was summoned to attend them.
-- But she constrained herself to attend to all that passed, and to note each look and word.
-- 'My clerk will attend to any business you may have come upon, Mr Brass,' said the notary, turning away.
-- ' 'Oh yes, to be sure yes, I did,' says Mr Swiveller with a smile. 'Have the goodness to banish a levity, sir, which is very ill-suited to the place in which you stand (though perhaps you have reason to be thankful that it's only that place),' says Mr Brass's gentleman, with a nod of the head, insinuating that the dock is Mr Swiveller's legitimate sphere of action; 'and attend to me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well; I will attend to it immediately," said Nekhludoff, taking the letter and then, noticing the smile on Agrippina's face, he frowned.
-- "It is impossible, because our business is to attend the guests----" "You will speak afterwards.
-- Won't you please attend our literary breakfast?
-- "I will learn that which you want to say about the short-haired en blanc, and she will have her husband attend to it.
-- But he had so many things to attend to that he felt that he could never get through with them, no matter how much time there might be left for preparations.
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