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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No defects to be afraid of, for the double shell is as firm as iron; no rigging to attend to; no sails for the wind to carry away; no boilers to burst; no fire to fear, for the vessel is made of iron, not of wood; no coal to run short, for electricity is the only mechanical agent; no collision to fear, for it alone swims in deep water; no tempest to brave, for when it dives below the water it reaches absolute tranquillity.
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：
-- Gudrun sat very still, to attend to this.
-- For with her mind she was unable to attend to his words, he caught her, as it were, beneath all her defences, and destroyed her with some insidious occult potency.
-- Nevertheless they were willing to attend at this festival, as they had done almost since they were children, the more so, as they all felt a little guilty now, and unwilling to thwart their father any more, since he was so ill in health.
-- "Anything but the earth itself," she laughed, watching his live hands that hovered to attend to the light.
-- Suddenly his strange, strained attention gave way, he could not attend to these mysteries any more.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my mind was too confused to attend to it, so with a kind of madness growing upon me, I flung myself into futurity.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes he lay all day long in his little bunk at one side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he would be almost sober and attend to his work at least passably.
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