settlement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 解决， 决定， 调停； 居留区， 住宅区，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：
-- Then, perhaps, in the midst of a tribe in some Indian settlement on the shores of these almost unknown rivers, those whom I may call my friends await some providential intervention.
-- "No, at ten minutes past seven," replied the geographer, gravely, "that Batman and Falckner first began a settlement at Port Phillip, the bay on which the large city of Melbourne now stands.
-- Go to a distant colony; and start some useful settlement there.
-- "I found myself abandoned on a nearly desert coast, but only forty miles from the penal settlement at Perth, the capital of Western Australia.
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：
-- I remember that he refused to accept any settlement from Sir Charles, though he pressed it upon him.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All present realized that the moment for the settlement of perplexities had arrived.
-- It has been brought about by invita-tion of Aglaya Ivanovna and my own efforts, and Nastasia is at this moment with Rogojin, not far from here at Dana Alexeyevna's that curious friend of hers; and to this ques-tionable house Aglaya Ivanovna is to proceed for a friendly chat with Nastasia Philipovna, and for the settlement of sev-eral problems.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A definite settlement, Alexey Alexandrovitch, some settlement of the position.
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：
-- 'You see we have reached their settlement or encamp-ment,' whispered the young man; 'and here is one of the savages himself, in a very embarrassing position for our further movements.'
-- On that morning when Magua led his silent party from the settlement of the beavers into the forests, in the manner described, the sun rose upon the Delaware encampment as if it had suddenly burst upon a busy people, actively em-ployed in all the customary avocations of high noon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And there was no settlement of the little property- the house andthe gardenthe what's-its-name Rookery without any rooks in it-upon her boy?'
-- Therefore she begged to be excused from any further attendance onthe top set, until things were as they formerly was, and as theycould be wished to be; and further mentioned that her little bookwould be found upon the breakfast-table every Saturday morning,when she requested an immediate settlement of the same, with thebenevolent view of saving trouble, 'and an illconwenience' to allparties.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 63The professional gentleman who had given Kit the consolatory piece of information relative to the settlement of his trifle of business at the Old Bailey, and the probability of its being very soon disposed of, turned out to be quite correct in his prognostications.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- la Comtesse de l'Ambermesnil, a widow of six and thirty, who was awaiting the final settlement of her husband's affairs, and of another matter regarding a pension due to her as the wife of a general who had died "on the field of battle."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "God's nightgown, man!Pray for a peaceable settlement with the Yankees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not related to the outlaw, or connected with him by any recognizable tie; he had put his hand to no writing or settlement in my favor before his apprehension, and to do so now would be idle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having satisfied himself, on his father's death, that his mother had a right of settlement in Coketown, this excellent young economist had asserted that right for her with such a steadfast adherence to the principle of the case, that she had been shut up in the workhouse ever since.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Plornish's father, a poor little reedy piping old gentleman, like a worn-out bird; who had been in what he called the music-binding business, and met with great misfortunes, and who had seldom been able to make his way, or to see it or to pay it, or to do anything at all with it but find it no thoroughfare, had retired of his own accord to the Workhouse which was appointed by law to be the Good Samaritan of his district (without the twopence, which was bad political economy), on the settlement of that execution which had carried Mr Plornish to the Marshalsea College.
-- Amiable and dear little Twoshoes!As to the settlement of poor papa's affairs, my interest in that is not very selfish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At six o'clock next morning, Mr. Bumble: having exchanged his cocked hat for a round one, and encased his person in a blue great-coat with a cape to it: took his place on the outside of the coach, accompanied by the criminals whose settlement was disputed; with whom, in due course of time, he arrived in London.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was a fair proposal, it must be confessed, had it been made to any one that had not had a settlement and a plan-tation of his own to look after, which was in a fair way of coming to be very considerable, and with a good stock upon it; but for me, that was thus entered and established, and had nothing to do but to go on as I had begun, for three or four years more, and to have sent for the other hundred pounds from England; and who in that time, and with that little addition, could scarce have failed of being worth three or four thousand pounds sterling, and that increasing too - for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of.
-- This little wandering journey, without settled place of abode, had been so unpleasant to me, that my own house, as I called it to myself, was a perfect settlement to me compared to that; and it rendered everything about me so comfortable, that I resolved I would never go a great way from it again while it should be my lot to stay on the island.
-- My true friend, the widow, earnestly dissuaded me from it, and so far prevailed with me, that for almost seven years she prevented my running abroad, during which time I took my two nephews, the children of one of my brothers, into my care; the eldest, having something of his own, I bred up as a gentleman, and gave him a settlement of some addition to his estate after my decease.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As usual--and for some inexplicable reason--the men chose the winter for the forcing of the hand of their employers and the settlement of their difficulties.
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