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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The physician came and pre-scribed medicines, and the old woman prepared them for me; but utter carelessness was visible in the first, and the expression of brutality was strongly marked in the visage of the second.
-- He had caused the best room in the prison to be prepared for me (wretch-ed indeed was the best); and it was he who had provided a physician and a nurse.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These matters she discussed with Prissy in whispers one evening, as they prepared Melanie's supper tray, andPrissy, surprisingly enough, calmed her fears.
-- From the kitchen below, she heard the rattle of china as Prissy prepared breakfast, but no sound of Mrs. Meade'sBetsy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the strange man; if he had come back for his two bank-notes there could have been no dispute about them, because my sister was fully prepared to restore them.
-- The way shall be prepared for you, and you can see his son first, who is in London.
-- He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlor, and he too ordered his shopman to "come out of the gangway" as my sacred person passed.
-- "What is he prepared to swear?"
-- "Now, I ask you, you blundering booby," said my guardian, very sternly, "once more and for the last time, what the man you have brought here is prepared to swear?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems, that upon the first moment I was discovered sleeping on the ground, after my landing, the emperor had early notice of it by an express; and determined in council, that I should be tied in the manner I have related, (which was done in the night while I slept;) that plenty of meat and drink should be sent to me, and a machine prepared to car-ry me to the capital city.
-- Towards night I got with some difficulty into my house, where I lay on the ground, and continued to do so about a fortnight; during which time, the emperor gave orders to have a bed prepared for me.
-- I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals, in little convenient huts built about my house, where they and their families lived, and prepared me two dishes a-piece.
-- This lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose en-mity against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.'
-- Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the twenty-fourth day of September 1701, at six in the morning; and when I had gone about four-leagues to 92 Gulliver's Travelsthe northward, the wind being at south-east, at six in the evening I descried a small island, about half a league to the north-west.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.
-- I, who came here to inform the father of the poor girl, Jupe, that she could not be received at the school any more, in consequence of there being practical objections, into which I need not enter, to the reception there of the children of persons so employed, am prepared in these altered circumstances to make a proposal.
-- 'My dear Louisa,' said her father, 'I prepared you last night to give me your serious attention in the conversation we are now going to have together.
-- Prepared or unprepared, I wish to hear it all from you.
-- 'I assure you, Mrs. Powler,' he then said, much exhausted, 'that the father's manner prepared me for a grim and stony maturity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Four horses were prepared for us, two to carry the baggage, and two to bear the important weight of myself and uncle.
-- My uncle, however, was one of those men who are nearly always prepared with expedients.
-- About twelve o'clock in the day our guide Hans having prepared and baited a hook, cast his line into the subterranean waters.
-- Anxious to be prepared for the worst, I examined our weapons, and saw that they were in a fit state for use.
-- Under this shelter, Hans prepared some food, which, however, I was unable to touch; and, exhausted by the three weary days and nights of watching, we fell into a deep and painful sleep.
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