rent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 租， 租赁n. 租金，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：
-- Not only that; but the village, light-headed with famine, fire, and bell-ringing, and bethinking itself that Monsieur Gabelle had to do with the collection of rent and taxes though it was but a small instalment of taxes, and no rent at all, that Gabelle had got in those latter days became impatient for an interview with him, and, surrounding his house, summoned him to come forth for personal confer-ence.
-- Cries in exaltation of the well-known good physician rent the hall.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We rent a bit of land too.
-- "Why, manage like Mihail Petrovitch, or let the land for half the crop or for rent to the peasants; that one can do--only that's just how the general prosperity of the country is being ruined.
-- "Then we're outside the law; rent explains nothing for us, but simply muddles us.
-- It is true that the peasants of the same company, though they had agreed to work the land on new conditions, always spoke of the land, not as held in partnership, but as rented for half the crop, and more than once the peasants and Ryezunov himself said to Levin, "If you would take a rent for the land, it would save you trouble, and we should be more free."
-- He would indeed have been obliged to admit that in the eastern--much the larger--part of Russia rent was as yet nil, that for nine-tenths of the eighty millions of the Russian peasants wages took the form simply of food provided for themselves, and that capital does not so far exist except in the form of the most primitive tools.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll rent it to you, furniture and the whole shooting-match, for fifteen dollars a month, if you'll pay me one year in advance.
-- Ada Quist said: "I guess if you ain't any too popular with the folks around here you'll have one fine time in a big city like Nautilus!Well Bert and me are going to get married next year and when you two swells make a failure of it I suppose we'll have to take care of you at our house when you come sneaking back do you think we could get your house at the same rent you paid for it oh Bert why couldn't we take Mart's office instead it would save money well I've always said since we were in school together you couldn't stand a decent regular life Ory."
-- It sounded particularly fine and original when he said it, but less so when Leora and he found that, with their rent fixed by their lease, they could not by whatever mean economies live on less than a thousand a year.
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：
-- We have now part of a room at Amalia Fyodorovna Lippevechsel's; and what we live upon and what we pay our rent with, I could not say.
-- She had on a dress of some light silky ma-terial, but put on strangely awry, not properly hooked up, and torn open at the top of the skirt, close to the waist: a great piece was rent and hanging loose.
-- It's fur-nished, rent moderate, three rooms.
-- 'You rent this room from the Kapernaumovs?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I rent the dear old house, and keep aschool, I shall be useful and happy.'
-- The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, anda wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.
-- Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connection?
-- The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverber-ated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.
-- ''Do you consider,' said his companion to him, 'that you will be obliged to pay three months' rent and to lose the produce of your garden?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no Orangeman this side of hell worth ahundred pounds to the British government or to the devil himself; but if the government felt so strongly about the deathof an English absentee landlord's rent agent, it was time for Gerald O'Hara to be leaving and leaving suddenly.
-- True,he had called the rent agent "a bastard of an Orangeman," but that, according to Gerald's way of looking at it, did notgive the man any right to insult him by whistling the opening bars of "The Boyne Water."
-- The sky was rent withgigantic flame.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why I hoarded up this last wretched little rag of the robe of hope that was rent and given to the winds, how do I know?
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