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 was evident that he was prepared to wait indefinitely.
-- He sat down with his elbow on the table, leaned his head on his hand and looked away sullenly, prepared to listen.
-- 'It was to put them off the scent 芒聙娄 I ran after Mitka,' Nikolay replied hurriedly, as though he had prepared the answer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we were all in a bustle outside the door, I found that Mr.Peggotty was prepared with an old shoe, which was to be thrownafter us for luck, and which he offered to Mrs. Gummidge for thatpurpose.
-- I prepared Peggotty for Steerforth's arrival, and it was not longbefore he came.
-- She had not yet sufficiently recovered from her agitation to bequite prepared for the visit we had to make.
-- You may, perhaps, be prepared to hear that Mrs. Micawber is in astate of health which renders it not wholly improbable that anaddition may be ultimately made to those pledges of affectionwhich- in short, to the infantine group.
-- When I conducted Mrs. Micawber to my dressing-table, and shesaw the scale on which it was prepared for her, she was in suchraptures, that she called Mr. Micawber to come in and look.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon afterwards Mr. Elton quitted them, and she could not but do him the justice of feeling that there was a great deal of sentiment in his manner of naming Harriet at part-ing; in the tone of his voice while assuring her that he should call at Mrs. Goddard's for news of her fair friend, the last thing before he prepared for the happiness of meeting her again, when he hoped to be able to give a better report; and he sighed and smiled himself off in a way that left the bal-ance of approbation much in his favour.
-- The carriage came: and Mr. Woodhouse, always the first object on such occasions, was carefully attended to his own by Mr. Knightley and Mr. Weston; but not all that either could say could prevent some renewal of alarm at the sight of the snow which had actually fallen, and the discovery of a much darker night than he had been prepared for.
-- This she had been prepared for when she entered the house; but meant, having once talked him handsomely over, to be no farther incommoded by any troublesome topic, and to wander at large amongst all the Mistresses and Misses of Highbury, and their card-parties.
-- Harriet had not been at home; but a note had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style 224 Emmato touch; a small mixture of reproach, with a great deal of kindness; and till Mr. Elton himself appeared, she had been much occupied by it, continually pondering over what could be done in return, and wishing to do more than she dared to confess.
-- 'Elegant, agreeable manners, I was prepared for,' said he; 'but I confess that, considering every thing, I had not ex-pected more than a very tolerably well-looking woman of a certain age; I did not know that I was to find a pretty young woman in Mrs.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, He prepared a gourd to shade me, and like the prophet I thanked Him and was glad.
-- But the next day He prepared a worm to smite the gourd and wither it; and I feel it is better to die than to live!"
-- For his merits in these all more or less based upon his experiences as a dragoon-guardsman Troy was taken into the company, and the play of Turpin was prepared with a view to his personation of the chief character.
-- Oak had in some slight measure been prepared for the presence of Troy by hearing a rumour of his return just before entering Boldwood's house; but before he had weighed that information, this fatal event had been superimposed.
-- Then Gabriel went home, and prepared for the morrow.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a picture for which the mind cannot be too well prepared by the contemplation of sad hues and sober images.
-- Eugene exchanged his dress suit for a shabby overcoat and slippers, kindled a fire with some blocks of patent fuel, and prepared for his night's work in such a sort that the faint sounds he made were drowned by Christophe's heavy tramp on the stairs.
-- He equipped himself with wit, rehearsed repartees in the course of an imaginary conversation, and prepared certain neat speeches a la Talleyrand, conjuring up a series of small events which should prepare the way for the declaration on which he had based his future; and during these musings the law student was bespattered with mud, and by the time he reached the Palais Royal he was obliged to have his boots blacked and his trousers brushed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts 53would at least lay the foundations of future success.
-- The young woman arranged the cottage and prepared the food, and the youth departed after the first meal.
-- I ought to have familiarized the old De Lacey to me, and by degrees to have discovered myself to the rest of his fam-ily, when they should have been prepared for my approach.
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