patient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有耐心的， 能忍耐的n. 病人， 患者，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：
-- Never was patient so well tended, nor by such sympathetic hands.
-- The most patient of men would have rebelled at such an untoward incident; but what could be done; without any vehicle, they could not brave such a tempest; and, after all, unless the natives appeared on the scene, a delay of twelve hours was not so much consequence, as the journey to Auckland was only a matter of a few days.
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：
-- No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles's person, and though the doctor's evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was in-deed his friend and patient who lay before him it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion.
-- It was incredible how slowly the hours crawled by, and yet we were helped through it by the same sort of patient interest which the hunter must feel as he watches the trap into which he hopes the game may wander.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the patient replied: 'No, they did not cure me.'
-- 'Are you a patient man, prince?
-- He always asked if the patient wanted anything, and when the latter replied that he only wanted to be left in peace, he would turn away obe-diently and make for the door on tip-toe, with deprecatory gestures to imply that he had only just looked in, that he would not speak a word, and would go away and not in-trude again; which did not prevent him from reappearing in ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.
-- In any case we must consult the prince, and leave the patient to rest at once.
-- But Dr. Schneider frowns ever more and more and shakes his head; he hints that the brain is fatally injured; he does not as yet declare that his patient is incurable, but he allows himself to express the gravest fears.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I cannot, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.
-- Therefore be patient under my words.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I would turn aside into some chapel, and even there, such was my disturbance, it seemed that the preacher gibbered 'Big Thinks,' even as the Ape-man had done; or into some library, and there the intent faces over the books seemed but patient creatures waiting for prey.
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：
-- At length, emboldened by the long and patient watchful-ness of his enemies, the Huron attempted a better and more fatal aim.
-- Under the cover of these natural ad-vantages, they toiled their way, with patient industry, until the scout pronounced that he believed it would be safe once more to land.
-- During one of these conferenc-es Heyward observed that Uncas stood a patient and silent, though, as he imagined, an interested listener.
-- After a patient pause, however, one of the aged men, perceiving that the sage had lost the recollection of the subject before them, ventured to remind him again of the presence of the prisoner.
-- added the scout, taking up the limb of the patient sufferer, across which a deep flesh wound had been made by one of the bul-lets; 'but a little bruised alder will act like a charm.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he would give me little happy glances, so that I might notice in how much better form the patient was.
-- But when we arrived at the hospital, a gaunt, cheerless building, the mere sight of which was enough to make one's heart sick, and after being directed from this official to that, up endless stairs and through long, bare corridors, found the doctor in charge of the case, we were told that the patient was too ill to see anyone that day.
-- We heard voices in the room in which she lay, and presently the nurse returned to say that the patient refused to see anyone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This patient lounger attracted little attention from any of those who passed, and bestowed as little upon them.
-- The poor schoolmaster appeared to be gratified by her earnest manner, but yet rendered more uneasy by it, for he added hastily that anxious people often magnified an evil and thought it greater than it was; 'for my part,' he said, in his quiet, patient way, 'I hope it's not so.
-- He was very patient and willing, happy to execute any little task, and glad to be of use; but he was in the same listless state, with no prospect of improvement a mere child a poor, thoughtless, vacant creature a harmless fond old man, susceptible of tender love and regard for her, and of pleasant and painful impressions, but alive to nothing more.
-- It made her very sad to know that this was so so sad to see it that sometimes when he sat idly by, smiling and nodding to her when she looked round, or when he caressed some little child and carried it to and fro, as he was fond of doing by the hour together, perplexed by its simple questions, yet patient under his own infirmity, and seeming almost conscious of it too, and humbled even before the mind of an infant so sad it made her to see him thus, that she would burst into tears, and, withdrawing into some secret place, fall down upon her knees and pray that he might be restored.
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