prepared是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 准备好的， 愿意的, 期望的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when the Bell struck One, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling.
-- It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs Cratchit, look-ing slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah.
-- Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trem-bled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it.
-- But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The arrival of his breakfast roused him, and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chair to it: 'I wish accommodation prepared for a young lady who may come here at any time to-day.
-- 'As I was prepared to hear, sir.'
-- That, he (Mr. Attorney-General) was prepared to hear some disparage-ment attempted of this admirable servant; but that, in a general way, he preferred him to his (Mr. Attorney-Gener-al's) brothers and sisters, and honoured him more than his (Mr. Attorney-General's) father and mother.
-- As to the uncertain travelling, the long journey, and the winter weather, if I were not prepared to submit myself to a few inconveniences for the sake of Tellson's, after all these years, who ought to be?'
-- The same cautious counsel directed every step that lay before him, and had prepared every inch of his road.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see he ought to have said that sooner; for the mo-ment he expressed the wish his head was free; and cured of all his paroxysms of love, he hastened off to his room, where the pains consequent on the fright the Shoes had prepared for him, did not so soon take their leave.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had obviously prepared the sentence beforehand.
-- He had both prepared for the university with the young Prince Shtcherbatsky, the brother of Kitty and Dolly, and had entered at the same time with him.
-- Before this, as soon as Kitty went out of the room in tears, Dolly, with her motherly, family instincts, had promptly perceived that here a woman's work lay before her, and she prepared to do it.
-- She took of her hat, and, morally speaking, tucked up her sleeves and prepared for action.
-- She felt certain that her surmises were correct; that Kitty's misery, her inconsolable misery, was due precisely to the fact that Levin had made her an offer and she had refused him, and Vronsky had deceived her, and that she was fully prepared to love Levin and to detest Vronsky.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would not be difficult to make him talk; and, as there was no time to lose, Fix prepared to make himself known.
-- The Tankadere bore sail admirably, as she drew a great deal of water, and everything was prepared for high speed in case of a gale.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Brumfit rattled: "I'm sufficiently liberal, I should assume, toward the claims of science, but with a man like Gottlieb--I'm prepared to believe that he knows all about material forces, but what astounds me is that such a man can be blind to the vital force that creates all others.
-- Gottlieb had twice to ask him whether he had prepared the new batch of medium, and Gottlieb was an autocrat, sterner with his favorites than with the ruck of students.
-- He went to her in the evening prepared to blaze out at her first complaining, to forgive her finally, but to break their engagement and make life resolutely simple again.
-- Martin had confessed his double engagement; he had explained that Leora was unquestionably the most gracious young woman on earth; but as he had previously used up all of his laudatory adjectives and all of Clif's patience on the subject of Madeline, Clif failed to listen, and prepared to dislike Leora as another siren of morality.
-- Mr. Tozer whined a good deal, and promised to send her seventy dollars a month till she should be prepared for office-work.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed to him strange and monstrous that he could have slept in such forgetfulness from the previous day and had done nothing, had prepared nothing yet芒聙娄.
-- He had only thought of money, and so had not prepared a hiding-place.
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