entail是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 使必需,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As a clergy-man, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within in the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive-branch.
-- 'You allude, perhaps, to the entail of this estate.'
-- How anyone could have the conscience to entail away an estate from one's own daughters, I cannot under-stand; and all for the sake of Mr. Collins too!Why should HE have it more than anybody else?'
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