gratify是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 使满足, 使高兴,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Harry Grant was delighted to gratify their curiosity, and commenced his narration forthwith.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why should you refuse to gratify my last wish?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I can see through it all, see into their very souls, and see there nothing but the souls of beasts, beasts that perish, anger and the lusts to live and gratify themselves. Yet they're odd; complex, like every-thing else alive.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And what he saw in this mirror did not gratify his self-esteem.
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:
-- While the others were busily occupied in seeking to gratify their childish passion for fin-ery, by plundering even the miserable effects of the scout, or had been searching with such bloodthirsty vengeance in their looks for their absent owner, Le Renard had stood at a little distance from the prisoners, with a demeanor so quiet and satisfied, as to betray that he had already effect-ed the grand purpose of his treachery.
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:
-- Sonia knew that this would comfort Katerina Ivanovna, would flatter her and gratify her pride.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I found everything in a satisfactory state at the cottage; and wasenabled to gratify my aunt exceedingly by reporting that the tenantinherited her feud, and waged incessant war against donkeys.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With a faint blush, she presently replied, 'Such attentions as Mrs. Elton's, I should have imagined, would rather disgust than gratify Miss Fairfax.
-- Mr. Weston was following; but Mrs. Elton de-tained him, to gratify him by her opinion of his son; and so briskly did she begin, that the young man himself, though by no means moving slowly, could hardly be out of hear-ing.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You might offer these last all the women on earth--they would turn up their noses; they will have the only one who can gratify their passion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "When you first caused me to be brought here, Miss Havisham, when I belonged to the village over yonder, that I wish I had never left, I suppose I did really come here, as any other chance boy might have come,--as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid for it?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
-- Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
-- lthough I intend to leave the description of this em-Apire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.
-- It was a custom introduced by this prince and his minis-try (very different, as I have been assured, from the practice of former times,) that after the court had decreed any cru-el execution, either to gratify the monarch's resentment, or the malice of a favourite, the emperor always made a speech to his whole council, expressing his great lenity and ten-derness, as qualities known and confessed by all the world.
-- However, for the reasons I had offered, but chiefly to gratify the king of Luggnagg by an uncommon mark of his favour, he would comply with the singularity of my humour; but the affair must be managed with dexterity, and his officers should be commanded to let me pass, as it were by forgetfulness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then it appeared that he was the son of a north-country blacksmith, and had originally been apprenticed by his widowed mother to a lock-maker; that he had 'struck out a few little things' at the lock-maker's, which had led to his being released from his indentures with a present, which present had enabled him to gratify his ardent wish to bind himself to a working engineer, under whom he had laboured hard, learned hard, and lived hard, seven years.
-- It would be a poor thing to gratify a prejudice against him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I'll do my best to gratify you, Sir,' was Laurie's unusually dutiful reply, as he carefully unpinned the posy Jo had put in his buttonhole.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But though ev-erything seemed neat and comfortable, she was not able to gratify him by any sigh of repentance, and rather looked with wonder at her friend that she could have so cheer-ful an air with such a companion.
-- To know that she had the power of re-vealing what would so exceedingly astonish Jane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own vanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation to openness as nothing could have conquered but the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate; and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeat-ing something of Bingley which might only grieve her sister further.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Of ONE thing, my dear sister," kindly taking her hand, and speaking in an awful whisper, "I may assure you; and I WILL do it, because I know it must gratify you.
-- Elinor had heard enough, if not to gratify her vanity, and raise her self-importance, to agitate her nerves and fill her mind; and she was therefore glad to be spared from the necessity of saying much in reply herself, and from the danger of hearing any thing more from her brother, by the entrance of Mr. Robert Ferrars.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I say this, not because I want to speak of my money, but because I love you and wish to gratify your every desire.
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