provided是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为conj. 假如, 如果,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:
-- A more suitable place could not be found for their night's lodging, provided they had no fear of sleeping in the open air beneath the star-lit heavens; and none of Thalcave's companions had much solicitude on that score.
-- It is precisely because we have an uncontestable figure, provided for us, that we should follow it up to the end."
-- Strong horses were provided for Lord Glenarvan, Paganel, Robert Grant, McNabbs, and John Mangles; also for the two sailors, Wilson and Mulrady, who were to accompany their captain.
-- But that was nothing, provided he knew his business.
-- "Yes," said Paganel, "but what is more useful still is the food and water provided for Kara-Tete."
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:
-- We have provided him with all that he can want.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Well, bring them, with or without respect, provided always you do not drop them on the way; but on the con-dition,' went on the lady, looking full at him, 'that you do not cross my threshold.
-- However this may be, the gay P brought up the orphan like a prince, provided him with tutors and governesses (pretty, of course!)
-- 'Thanks, prince, many thanks, eccentric friend of the family, for the pleasant evening you have provided for us.
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:
-- 'He is not yet master of Wil-liam Henry, nor shall he ever be, provided Webb proves himself the man he should.
-- After this material point was so satisfactorily decided, he despatched an Indian boy in quest of 'killdeer' and the rifle of Uncas, to the place where they had deposited their weapons on approaching the camp of the Delawares; a measure of double policy, inasmuch as it protected the arms from their own fate, if detained as pris-oners, and gave them the advantage of appearing among the strangers rather as sufferers than as men provided with means of defense and subsistence.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was evident that she had been prepared to weep, for she had provided herself with a sufficiency of handkerchiefs; I admired her forethought, but in retrospect it made her tears perhaps less moving.
-- The Asile de Nuit is a large stone building where pauper and vagabond may get a bed for a week, provided their papers are in order and they can persuade the friars in charge that they are workingmen.
-- Strickland had no papers, but that was not a matter to disconcert Tough Bill when he saw a profit (he took the first month's wages of the sailor for whom he found a berth), and he provided Strickland with those of an English stoker who had providentially died on his hands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Bother the continent," cried Pencroft hastily; "there is time enough to see about that, captain!we don't care for anything, provided you are living."
-- The shape of these objects was clumsy and defective, but after they had been baked in a high temperature, the kitchen of the Chimneys was provided with a number of utensils, as precious to the settlers as the most beautifully enameled china.
-- When the wormwood was properly dried it provided them with a very inflammable substance, especially afterwards when the engineer had impregnated it with nitrate of potash, of which the island possessed several beds, and which is in truth saltpeter.
-- Cyrus Harding had provided himself with a straight stick, twelve feet long, which he had measured as exactly as possible by comparing it with his own height, which he knew to a hair.
-- Nature must therefore have provided some place for the escape of the overplus.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Moreover, he sent an express to the wharf for the tumbling boy, who arriving with all despatch was enjoined to sit himself down in another chair just inside the door, continually to smoke a great pipe which the dwarf had provided for the purpose, and to take it from his lips under any pretence whatever, were it only for one minute at a time, if he dared.
-- 'And when the Mary Anne returned with you on board, instead of a letter to say what a contrite heart you had, and how happy you were in the situation that had been provided for you, I was amused exceedingly amused.
-- For the better preservation of his cheerfulness therefore, and to prevent his faculties from rusting, he provided himself with a cribbage-board and pack of cards, and accustomed himself to play at cribbage with a dummy, for twenty, thirty, or sometimes even fifty thousand pounds aside, besides many hazardous bets to a considerable amount.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If Nekhludoff were clearly conscious of his love for Katiousha; especially if it were sought to persuade him that he could and must not link his fate to that of the girl, he would very likely have decided in his plumb-line mind that there was no reason why he should not marry her, no matter who she was, provided he loved her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And yet no supper was provided here--nothing but beds.
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