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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt just prepared to make a scene.
-- I am delighted to hear you are prepared to leave Ven-ice on the sixteenth.
-- If he would have admitted it, and prepared himself for it: or if he would have admit-ted it, and actively struggled with his wife against it: that would have been acting like a man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The guest looked contemptuously at the clean coarse bedding prepared for him, and, sitting down on the rush chair at the bedside, drew his money out of his pocket, and told it over in his hand.
-- Mr Casby seemed a feather's weight disappointed by the last words, having perhaps prepared himself for the visitor's wishing to pay something else.
-- Considering her entrance sufficiently prepared for by this mention of her name, Maggy appeared from the landing outside, on the broad grin.
-- Everything prepared for holding his Court.
-- When his tears were dried, and he sobbed in his weakness no longer, and was free from that touch of shame, and had recovered his usual bearing, she prepared the remains of his supper afresh, and, sitting by his side, rejoiced to see him eat and drink.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll put them down, they'll be needed and I must go prepared for nursing.
-- That was the name of the little brown house Mr. Brooke had prepared for Meg's first home.
-- cried the old lady, taking the seat of honor prepared for her, and settling the folds of her lavender moire with a great rustle.
-- is the motto for that table, but do your duty like men, and you'll get your money's worth of art in every sense of the word,' said the irrepressible Jo, as the devoted phalanx prepared to take the field.
-- Feeling that she must get through the matter somehow, Jo produced her manuscript and, blushing redder and redder with each sentence, blun-dered out fragments of the little speech carefully prepared for the occasion.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec.
-- A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: "Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah 'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.'"
-- He reads, and looks from Jonah to the bill; while all his sympathetic shipmates now crowd round Jonah, prepared to lay their hands upon him.
-- But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg, I was obliged to acquiesce; and accordingly prepared to set about this business with a determined rushing sort of energy and vigor, that should quickly settle that trifling little affair.
-- His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this.
-- The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head.
-- Accordingly, with a clean white apron tied over her gown, and her curl-papers tucked up under a straw bonnet,--both articles of dress being provided from the Jew's inexhaustible stock,--Miss Nancy prepared to issue forth on her errand.
-- As fate would have it, Mrs. Bedwin chanced to bring in, at this moment, a small parcel of books, which Mr. Brownlow had that morning purchased of the identical bookstall-keeper, who has already figured in this history; having laid them on the table, she prepared to leave the room.
-- Having prepared his mind, by solitude and gloom, to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, he was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it, and change its hue for ever.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I can as-sure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them.
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