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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Mangles went to find Glenarvan, and had a private talk with him about their situation, telling him frankly the true state of affairs, stating the case with all the coolness of a sailor prepared for anything and everything and he wound up by saying he might, perhaps, be obliged to cast the yacht on shore.
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：
-- Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him.'
-- The baronet has been in communication with the ar-chitect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon.
-- After the conversation which I have quoted about Barry-more, Sir Henry put on his hat and prepared to go out.
-- 'I have come prepared to do so,' said Holmes, drawing several papers from his pocket.
-- I was prepared for a hound, but not for such a creature as this.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, my dear fellow, it's not a question of your rejecting her, it is whether you are prepared to receive her consent joyfully, and with proper satisfaction.
-- Now, as to your plans in the house, or rather in the family of Gania here my young friend, whom I hope you will know better his mother and sister have prepared two or three rooms for lodgers, and let them to highly recommended young fellows, with board and attendance.
-- Here she found a delightful little house, just built, and prepared for her reception with great care and taste; and here she took up her abode together with the lady who had accompanied her from her old home.
-- I have not prepared my judgment.
-- Why, you declare yourself a fool at once,' she said, with impudent familiarity, as she rose from the sofa and prepared to go.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had done all this and had prepared the feast, they ate it, and every man had his full and equal share, so that all were satisfied, and King Agamemnon gave Ajax some slices cut lengthways down the loin, as a mark of special hon-our.
-- The son of Atreus then bade many councillors of the Achaeans to his quarters prepared a great feast in their hon-our.
-- In this the woman, as fair as a god-dess, mixed them a mess with Pramnian wine; she grated goat's milk cheese into it with a bronze grater, threw in a handful of white barley-meal, and having thus prepared the mess she bade them drink it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why haven't you prepared my meals and answered my bell?
-- They were prepared for scars, disfigurements, tangible horrors, but nothing!The bandages and false hair flew across the passage into the bar, making a hobbledehoy jump to avoid them.
-- The stranger, after some hesitation, leant against one of the gate-posts, produced a short clay pipe, and prepared to fill it.
-- I let the whole down with a smash on the cabman, and then, with shouts and the clatter of feet about me, people coming out of shops, vehicles pulling up, I realised what I had done for myself, and cursing my folly, backed against a shop window and prepared to dodge out of the confusion.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was already half prepared by the sounds I had heard for what I saw.
-- Then I turned my head, and saw a meal prepared for me on the table.
-- I per-ceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock, which, very politely anticipating my inten-tion, twisted round and deposited me upon all-fours on the floor.
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：
-- A young man, in the dress of an officer, conducted to their steeds two females, who, as it was apparent by their dresses, were prepared to encounter the fatigues of a jour-ney in the woods.
-- Heyward prepared to comply, though with strong dis-gust at the nature of the office he was compelled to execute.
-- It was evident that his momentary weakness had vanished with the explanation of a mystery which his own experience had not served to fathom; and though he now felt all the realities of their actual condition, that he was prepared to meet them with the energy of his hardy nature.
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