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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
-- We were on the qui vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat.
-- It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed to me superior even to salmon.
-- I was prepared to salute Captain Nemo, but it was his second (whom I had already seen on the Captain's first visit) who appeared.
-- While these interesting birds were cooking, Ned prepared the fruit of the bread-tree.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gerald, on the brink of discussion, sniffed the air with delight and prepared for action.
-- She prepared for flight, feverishly she flew to her work.
-- Therefore, quite cheerfully Laura prepared to take her mother's place as hostess, and Gerald assumed responsibility for the amusements on the water.
-- She was prepared to fight him for it.
-- You would have to be prepared to suffer dreadfully.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bid them be quiet, now that they saw me returned, and, benumbed to my very heart, I dragged up stairs; whence, after putting on dry clothes, and pacing to and fro thirty or forty minutes, to restore the animal heat, I adjourned to my study, feeble as a kitten: almost too much so to enjoy the cheerful fire and smoking coffee which the servant had prepared for my refreshment.
-- After playing lady's maid to the new comer, and putting my cakes in the oven, and making the house and kitchen cheerful with great fires, befitting Christmas eve, I prepared to sit down and amuse myself by singing carols, all alone; regardless of Joseph's affirmations that he considered the merry tunes I chose as next door to songs.
-- He ventured this remark without any intention to insult; but Heathcliff's violent nature was not prepared to endure the appearance of impertinence from one whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival.
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