attendance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 出席； 出席人数； 护理， 照料，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There he found him with his men seat-ed at a distance from him: only two, the hero Automedon, and Alcimus of the race of Mars, were busy in attendance about his person, for he had but just done eating and drink-ing, and the table was still there.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The current cant required my attendance at his funeral, but it was really not my affair.
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：
-- The writer remembers to have been present at an interview between two chiefs of the Great Prairies west of the Mississippi, and when an interpreter was in attendance who spoke both their languages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was watching enough, now, but it was the watching of strangers who made a greedy trade of it, and who, in the intervals in their attendance upon the sick man huddled together with a ghastly good-fellowship, and ate and drank and made merry; for disease and death were their ordinary household gods.
-- 'Miss Sally said I wasn't to, because people wouldn't believe the attendance was good if they saw how small I was first.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit was this lady's name; and she was a prominent figure in attendance on Mr. Bounderby's car, as it rolled along in triumph with the Bully of humility inside.
-- She stood looking intently at him, and Louisa stood coldly by, with her eyes upon the ground, while he proceeded thus:'Jupe, I have made up my mind to take you into my house; and, when you are not in attendance at the school, to employ you about Mrs. Gradgrind, who is rather an invalid.
-- 'I don't exactly know,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'how I come to be favoured with the attendance of the present company, but I don't inquire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She's failing in health, and she'll want pretty constant attendance up in her room, and we shall have to be much with her, and there'll be nobody about now but ourselves when we're away from her, and altogether it will be more convenient.
-- 'Mrs Bangham,' returned the doctor, 'I am in professional attendance on this lady, and don't choose to allow any discussion on your part.
-- In dancing attendance at the various offices, I was always treated, more or less, as if it was a very bad offence.
-- How, after interminable attendance and correspondence, after infinite impertinences, ignorances, and insults, my lords made a Minute, number three thousand four hundred and seventy-two, allowing the culprit to make certain trials of his invention at his own expense.
-- It was supposed that no persuasion could be invented which would induce Mrs Tickit to abandon her post at the blind, however long their absence, or to dispense with the attendance of Dr Buchan; the lucubrations of which learned practitioner, Mr Meagles implicitly believed she had never yet consulted to the extent of one word in her life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether the flitting attendance of the one still and solitary jet had gradually worked upon Ahab, so that he was now prepared to connect the ideas of mildness and repose with the first sight of the particular whale he pursued; however this was, or whether his eagerness betrayed him; whichever way it might have been, no sooner did he distinctly perceive the white mass, than with a quick intensity he instantly gave orders for lowering.
-- In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his ladies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit of black, was in attendance upon them.
-- A medical practitioner, who resided on the spot, was in constant attendance upon her; and after first seeing the patient, he had taken Mrs. Maylie aside, and pronounced her disorder to be one of a most alarming nature.
-- 'The great nobs,' replied Harry, 'under which designation, I presume, you include my most stately uncle, have not communicated with me at all, since I have been here; nor, at this time of the year, is it likely that anything would occur to render necessary my immediate attendance among them.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your attendance upon her has been too much for you.
-- She shared in their attendance on Mrs. Bennet, and was a great comfort to them in their hours of freedom.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am particularly sorry, ma'am," said he, addressing Lady Middleton, "that I should receive this letter today, for it is on business which requires my immediate attendance in town."
-- The comfort of such a friend at that moment as Colonel Brandon or such a companion for her mother, how gratefully was it felt! a companion whose judgment would guide, whose attendance must relieve, and whose friendship might soothe her! as far as the shock of such a summons COULD be lessened to her, his presence, his manners, his assistance, would lessen it.
-- His attendance was by this means secured, and the rest followed in course.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone admired him, danced attendance upon him, petted and caressed him.
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