shift是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 位置转移, 性格转变; 轮班; vt. 转变, 移动，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had grown to be so accustomed to the Micawbers, and had beenso intimate with them in their distresses, and was so utterlyfriendless without them, that the prospect of being thrown uponsome new shift for a lodging, and going once more amongunknown people, was like being that moment turned adrift intomy present life, with such a knowledge of it ready made, asexperience had given me.
-- Ever so fur as I went, ever so fur themountains seemed to shift away from me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After receiving a very in-different education she is left in Mrs. Goddard's hands to shift as she can; to move, in short, in Mrs. Goddard's line, to have Mrs. Goddard's acquaintance.
-- The idea of her being indebted to Mrs. Elton for what was called an introduction of her going into public under the auspices of a friend of Mrs. Elton's probably some vul-gar, dashing widow, who, with the help of a boarder, just made a shift to live! The dignity of Miss Woodhouse, of Hartfield, was sunk indeed!
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, it was easier to shift the responsibility to Aunt Pitty, who after all wasthe head of the house, the chaperon and the arbiter of morals.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The peasant listened, and when he heard them talk about feasting he was vexed that he had been forced to 158 Grimms' Fairy Talesmake shift with a slice of bread and cheese.
-- But the poor young ravens lay upon the ground, flapping their wings, and crying: 'Oh, what helpless chicks we are!We must shift for ourselves, and yet we cannot fly!What can we do, but lie here and starve?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock.
-- I got up in an instant; and orders being given to clear the way before me, and it being like-wise a moonshine night, I made a shift to get to the palace 61without trampling on any of the people.
-- I rested two or three minutes, and then gave the boat another shove, and so on, till the sea was no higher than my arm-pits; and now, the most laborious part being over, I took out my other cables, which were stowed in one of the ships, and fastened them first to the boat, and then to nine of the vessels which attended me; the wind being favourable, the seamen towed, and I shoved, until we arrived within forty yards of the shore; and, waiting till the tide was out, I got dry to the boat, and by the assistance of two thousand men, with ropes and engines, I made a shift to turn it on its bot-tom, and found it was but little damaged.
-- However, I made a shift to go forward, till I came to a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind.
-- Besides, I had learnt their alphabet, and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; for Glumdalclitch had been my instructor while we were at home, and at leisure hours during our journey.
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：
-- 'And how would you shift the blame on to him?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The great hatch is scrubbed and placed upon the try-works, completely hiding the pots; every cask is out of sight; all tackles are coiled in unseen nooks; and when by the combined and simultaneous industry of almost the entire ship's company, the whole of this conscientious duty is at last concluded, then the crew themselves proceed to their own ablutions; shift themselves from top to toe; and finally issue to the immaculate deck, fresh and all aglow, as bridegrooms new-leaped from out the daintiest Holland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver, who could hardly stand, made a shift to raise himself on his feet, and was at once lugged along the streets by the jacket-collar, at a rapid pace.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, no, let me shift for my-self; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord!how was it possible I could get on shore After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dread-ful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me; neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hun-ger or being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was, that I had no weapon, -either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs.
-- All the remedy that I found for this was, that at last I did remember I had, among the seamen's clothes which were saved out of the ship, some neckcloths of calico or muslin; and with some pieces of these I made three small sieves proper enough for the work; and thus I made shift for some years: how I did afterwards, I shall show in its place.
-- However, I made shift to make two or three new waistcoats, which I hoped would serve me a great while: as for breeches or drawers, I made but a very sorry shift indeed till afterwards.
-- However, they were such as I made very good shift with, and when I was out, if it happened to rain, the hair of my waistcoat and cap being outermost, I was kept very dry.
-- If they desired that, as I had liberty to leave the island, I had some inclination to give them their lives, if they thought they could shift on shore.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after thinking it all over and over again, he said, it seemed to him as if, now he had no fortune, and no nothing at all, it would be quite unkind to keep her on to the engagement, because it must be for her loss, for he had nothing but two thousand pounds, and no hope of any thing else; and if he was to go into orders, as he had some thoughts, he could get nothing but a curacy, and how was they to live upon that? He could not bear to think of her doing no better, and so he begged, if she had the least mind for it, to put an end to the matter directly, and leave him shift for himself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her sister carried with her most of the grimness of shift and toil.
-- Another shift of the box, and some other had become the beautiful, the perfect.
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