entertainment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 娱乐, 招待, 表演，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, people then paid to see the play at the Old Bailey, just as they paid to see the play in Bed-lam only the former entertainment was much the dearer.
-- The dead man disposed of, and the crowd being under 222 A tale of two citiesthe necessity of providing some other entertainment for itself, another brighter genius (or perhaps the same) con-ceived the humour of impeaching casual passers-by, as Old Bailey spies, and wreaking vengeance on them.
-- Again the mender of roads went through the whole per-formance; in which he ought to have been perfect by that time, seeing that it had been the infallible resource and in-dispensable entertainment of his village during a whole year.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anna answered a few words, but not foreseeing any entertainment from the conversation, she asked Annushka to get a lamp, hooked it onto the arm of her seat, and took from her bag a paper knife and an English novel.
-- As for the amusements of bachelor existence, which had provided Vronsky with entertainment on previous tours abroad, they could not be thought of, since the sole attempt of the sort had led to a sudden attack of depression in Anna, quite out of proportion with the cause--a late supper with bachelor friends.
-- Really, exceedingly pretty," he declared in a tone of approval, as though she had been made pretty entirely on his account, and he was expressing his satisfaction with the entertainment that had been provided for him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Martin's duties was added the entertainment of Leora in the strange city of Nautilus.
-- He was too conscious of the ordeal of a professional social life, and he could never understand that esoteric phenomenon, the dinner-party--the painful entertainment of people whom one neither likes nor finds interesting.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In-quiring of Madame Lippevechsel who was busy laying the table while Katerina Ivanovna was away at the cemetery, he heard that the entertainment was to be a great affair, that all the lodgers had been invited, among them some who had not known the dead man, that even Andrey Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov was invited in spite of his previous quarrel with Katerina Ivanovna, that he, Pyotr Petrovitch, was not only invited, but was eagerly expected as he was the most important of the lodgers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These, however, were small drawbacks, and easily forgotten whenthe cloth was cleared, and the dessert put on the table; at whichperiod of the entertainment the handy young man was discoveredto be speechless.
-- 'I trust I rendered tolerably intelligible my appointment for themorning of this day week, at the house of public entertainment atCanterbury, where Mrs. Micawber and myself had once the honourof uniting our voices to yours, in the well-known strain of theImmortal exciseman nurtured beyond the Tweed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But (lowering her 450 Emmavoice) nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people.'
-- I am sure it was a source of high entertainment to you, to feel that you were taking us all in. Perhaps I am the readier to suspect, because, to tell you the truth, I think it might have been some amusement to myself in the same situation.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The County had been devoid of any entertainment or social life eversince the Troop had gone away to war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not enjoyed themselves a quarter so much, before the entertainment was brightened with the excitement he furnished.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party.
-- The parallel sticks secured them and their horses from fall-ing over the stage; and the emperor was so much delighted, that he ordered this entertainment to be repeated several 41days, and once was pleased to be lifted up and give the word of command; and with great difficulty persuaded even the empress herself to let me hold her in her close chair within two yards of the stage, when she was able to take a full view of the whole performance.
-- The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers.
-- He observed, 'that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?'
-- I assured him, 'I was well refreshed with his good entertainment and company, and as much in my senses as ever I was in my life.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having paid for his entertainment with this agreeable compliment, he relapsed into a hangdog silence until there was no more India ale left, when he said, 'Well, Mrs. Sparsit, I must be off!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlady having given her directions for the new guest's entertainment to her husband, who acted as cook to the Break of Day, had resumed her needlework behind her counter.
-- Equally, if his heart had given entertainment to that prohibited guest, his silent fighting of his way through the mental condition of this period might have been a little meritorious.
-- He therefore terminated the entertainment at the end of the third bottle.
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