comfort是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 舒适， 安逸； 安慰， 慰问v. 安慰， 使舒适，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know one can't 芒聙娄 it's a comfort to her 芒聙娄 she is like that, you know芒聙娄.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I used at first to wonder what comfort Traddlesfound in drawing skeletons; and for some time looked upon him asa sort of hermit, who reminded himself by those sym- bols ofmortality that caning couldn't last for ever.
-- I think I had someglimpses of the real character of this conversation at the time; but Iam sure, now, that the good creature originated it, and took herpart in it, merely that my mother might comfort herself with thelittle contradictory summary in which she had indulged.
-- I took back Captain Hopkins's knife and fork early in theafternoon, and went home to comfort Mrs. Micawber with anaccount of my visit.
-- 'It is a comfort to you and me, ma'am,' said my aunt, 'who aregetting on in life, and are not likely to be made unhappy by ourpersonal attractions, that nobody can say the same of us.'
-- I could not enough admire the change he had wrought in theGolden Cross; or compare the dull forlorn state I had heldyesterday, with this morning's comfort and this morning'sentertainment.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sure she will be an excellent servant; and it will be a great comfort to poor Miss Taylor to have somebody about her that she is used to see.
-- I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said Mr. Weston would never marry again, may comfort me for any thing.'
-- Some scruples and some reluctance the widower-father may be supposed to have felt; but as they were overcome by other considerations, the child was given up to the care and the wealth of the Churchills, and he had only his own comfort to seek, and his own situation to im-prove as he could.
-- And then there was such comfort in the very easy distance of Randalls from Hartfield, so conve-nient for even solitary female walking, and in Mr. Weston's disposition and circumstances, which would make the ap-proaching season no hindrance to their spending half the evenings in the week together.
-- You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion; and, perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex, after being used to it all her life.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He's a clever man, and 'tis a true comfort for us to have such a shepherd," murmured Joseph Poorgrass, in a soft cadence.
-- Then up comes Maryann; throws the loose locks into the middle of the fleece, rolls it up, and carries it into the background as three-and-a-half pounds of unadulterated warmth for the winter enjoyment of persons unknown and far away, who will, however, never experience the superlative comfort derivable from the wool as it here exists, new and pure before the unctuousness of its nature whilst in a living state has dried, stiffened, and been washed out rendering it just now as superior to anything woollen as cream is superior to milk-and-water.
-- The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sensation of physical comfort left his mind free to grapple with the thoughts that assailed him.
-- Eugene had shown her sympathy and devotion at a crisis when a woman sees no pity, no real comfort in any eyes; when if a man is ready with soothing flatteries, it is because he has an interested motive.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus the poor sufferer tried to comfort others and her-self.
-- Sever-al new kinds of plants sprang up in the garden, which they dressed; and these signs of comfort increased daily as the season advanced.
-- I trembled violently at his exordium, and my father continued 'I confess, my son, that I have always looked forward to your marriage with our dear Elizabeth as the tie of our domestic comfort and the stay of my declining years.
-- 'I thank you, but all that you mention is nothing to me; on the whole earth there is no comfort which I am capable of receiving.'
-- This winter has been passed most miserably, tortured 229as I have been by anxious suspense; yet I hope to see peace in your countenance and to find that your heart is not to-tally void of comfort and tranquillity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, in the depths of the firsttragedy she had ever known, she wanted the very comfort of her mother's presence.
-- She cried untilCharles climbed into bed beside her and tried to comfort her, cried without words until no more tears would come andat last she lay sobbing quietly on his shoulder.
-- Marriage was bad enough, but to be widowed oh, then life was over forever!How stupid people were when theytalked about what a comfort little Wade Hampton must be to her, now that Charles was gone.
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