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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here is shame enough for a year!Wait a moment 'till I thank the prince!Thank you, prince, for the entertainment you have given us!It was most amusing to hear these young men...
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You two were busy cutting up the heifer, and at that moment we stood at the gates, whereon Achilles sprang to his feet, led us by the hand into the house, placed us at table, and set before us such hospitable entertainment as guests expect.
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：
-- ' Shakespeare hile one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily pre-Wsented to the reader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the alarm which induced the excla-mation, and, laughing at her own weakness, she inquired of the youth who rode by her side: 'Are such specters frequent in the woods, Heyward, or is this sight an especial entertainment ordered on our behalf?
-- Had Hawkeye been aware of the low estimation in which the skillful Uncas held his representations, he would probably have prolonged the entertainment a little in pique.
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：
-- Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz belongs to that school of historians which believes that human nature is not only about as bad as it can be, but a great deal worse; and certainly the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in representing the great figures of romance as patterns of the domestic virtues.
-- Their moral eccentricities, like their oddities of dress, their wild theories and paradoxes, were an entertainment which amused her, but had not the slightest influence on her convictions.
-- I do not consider that the cigars and whisky he consumed at my expense (he always refused cocktails, since he was practically a teetotaller), and the few dollars, borrowed with a civil air of conferring a favour upon me, that passed from my pocket to his, were in any way equivalent to the entertainment he afforded me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here Mr Codlin's false position in society and the effect it wrought upon his wounded spirit, were strongly illustrated; for whereas he had been last night accosted by Mr Punch as 'master,' and had by inference left the audience to understand that he maintained that individual for his own luxurious entertainment and delight, here he was, now, painfully walking beneath the burden of that same Punch's temple, and bearing it bodily upon his shoulders on a sultry day and along a dusty road.
-- Then the entertainment began as soon as might be; Mr Codlin having the responsibility of deciding on its length and of protracting or expediting the time for the hero's final triumph over the enemy of mankind, according as he judged that the after-crop of half-pence would be plentiful or scant.
-- Cheap entertainment for man and beast,' said Mr Groves, quoting his sign-board.
-- As they would leave the house very early in the morning, the child was anxious to pay for their entertainment before they retired to bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The entertainment was not as agreeable and natural as it might have been.
-- And as they know the signs of the weather tolerably well, they don't give much employment to the dogs who have consequently died out rather though this house of entertainment is conveniently situated for themselves.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of 'The Trap!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered--the poor people liked it!It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.
-- Mrs. Bennet had so careful-ly provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family dinner.
-- The entertainment of dining at Rosings was repeated about twice a week; and, allowing for the loss of Sir Wil-liam, and there being only one card-table in the evening, every such entertainment was the counterpart of the first.
-- This is not the sort of happi-ness which a man would in general wish to owe to his wife; but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the present occasion, for the better entertainment of their visitor, towards whose amusement he felt himself bound to contribute, he wished to engage them for both.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The Custer Lodge is getting up a little entertainment for their own good, and they'd like a little newspaper notice.
-- "I see," said this individual, who wore sporting clothes of the most attractive pattern, and had a field-glass strung over his shoulder, "that you did not get over to our little entertainment last evening."
-- Carrie rather sympathised with his efforts and thought nothing upon her lack of entertainment such as she had enjoyed in Chicago.
-- The "Herald," getting up an entertainment for the benefit of its free ice fund, did her the honour to beg her to appear along with celebrities for nothing.
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