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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before such an exhibition of grief, Pittypat's easy tearsceased and Melly flew to the bedside to comfort her sister-in-law.
-- "Dear, don't cry!Try to think how much Charlie loved you and let that comfort you!Try to think of your darlingbaby."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had often thought before, with something allied to shame, of my companionship with the fugitive whom I had once seen limping among those graves, what were my thoughts on this Sunday, when the place recalled the wretch, ragged and shivering, with his felon iron and badge!My comfort was, that it happened a long time ago, and that he had doubtless been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be veritably dead into the bargain.
-- We changed, and I had not made up my mind, and still reflected for my comfort that it would be quite practicable to get down and walk back, when we changed again.
-- Mr. Pocket took me into the house and showed me my room: which was a pleasant one, and so furnished as that I could use it with comfort for my own private sitting-room.
-- So, when I had pledged myself to comfort and abet Herbert in the affair of his heart by all practicable and impracticable means, and when Herbert had told me that his affianced already knew me by reputation and that I should be presented to her, and when we had warmly shaken hands upon our mutual confidence, we blew out our candles, made up our fire, locked our door, and issued forth in quest of Mr. Wopsle and Denmark.
-- Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,--as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody,--were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognized a postboy discharged from the Boar for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, as he was roaming along in a brown study, thinking with no great comfort on what he had been and what he now was, and was like to be, all on a sudden there stood before him a little, rough-looking, black dwarf.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the cap- 181tain, Mr. Thomas Wilcocks, an honest worthy Shropshire man, observing I was ready to faint, took me into his cabin, gave me a cordial to comfort me, and made me turn in upon his own bed, advising me to take a little rest, of which I had great need.
-- But my comfort was, that I observed such accidents very frequent, and little regarded.
-- However, it is now some comfort to reflect, that in what I said of my countrymen, I extenuated their faults as much as I durst before so strict an examiner; and upon every article gave as favourable a turn as the matter would bear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wretched ignorance with which Jupe clung to this consolation, rejecting the superior comfort of knowing, on a sound arithmetical basis, that her father was an unnatural vagabond, filled Mr. Gradgrind with pity.
-- 'And you were his comfort through everything?'
-- 'Thank you very much, sir,' that discreet lady observed, 'but pray do not let My comfort be a consideration.
-- She could give him no comfort herein.
-- 'The better I know it to be so believed there, my dear,' said Rachael, 'and the kinder I feel it that you come away from there, purposely to comfort me, and keep me company, and be seen wi' me when I am not yet free from all suspicion myself, the more grieved I am that I should ever have spoken those mistrusting words to the young lady.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole party then halted, and the worthy Icelander and my excellent uncle did their best to console and comfort me.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But occasional love, as a comfort arid soothing, was also a good thing, and he was not ungrateful.
-- He was never really warm, nor even kind, only thoughtful, considerate, in a well-bred, cold sort of way!But never warm as a man can be warm to a woman, as even Connie's father could be warm to her, with the warmth of a man who did himself well, and intended to, but who still could comfort it woman with a bit of his masculine glow.
-- But he did!The way he sat when my first baby was born, motionless, and the sort of fatal eyes he looked at me with, when it was over!I had a bad time, but I had to comfort HIM.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A good girl, sir, a dear girl, and long a comfort and support to me.
-- She shook her head as if she had not derived all the comfort she had fondly expected from this interview, but thanked him nevertheless for the trouble he had kindly taken.
-- If you were in prison, could I bring such comfort to you?'
-- And the impossibility of bringing anything that one wants to this inaccessible place, and the necessity of leaving every comfort behind, is not convenient.'
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