job是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 工作， 职位； 零活， 一件工作； 任务， 职责，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And on they went, till the job was quite done, and the shoes stood ready for use upon the table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was it an unequal marriage in point of years, this unlucky job of yours?'
-- It would have been a pleasant job to go down by that on such a night, and have to walk home through a pond.
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：
-- Hilda, however, sud-denly married a man ten years older than herself, an elder member of the same Cambridge group, a man with a fair amount of money, and a comfortable family job in the gov-ernment: he also wrote philosophical essays.
-- It's got to be a sort of job for somebody else, or I should throw it up in a month, out of bad temper.
-- I chucked up my job at Butterley because I thought I was a weed, clerking there: and I got on as overhead blacksmith at Tevershall: shoe-ing horses mostly.
-- It was a job I liked: handling horses: and it came natural to me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You wouldn't mind my asking if it happened to be a job as you was come about, sir, would you?'
-- She copied it out according, on this table, in a sweet writing, and Plornish, he took it where he worked, having a job just then,' (Plornish repeated job just then,) 'and likewise to the landlord of the Yard; through which it was that Mrs Clennam first happened to employ Miss Dorrit.'
-- So the Circumlocution Barnacles, who were the largest job-masters in the universe, always pretended to know of no other job but the job immediately in hand.
-- My brother Ephraim, the lunatic-keeper (I wish he had had himself to keep in a strait-waistcoat), had had many jobs since the close of the long job he got from you, but had not done well.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she must dust the room, and what a trying job that was.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What am I that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan!The awful tauntings in Job might well appal me.
-- answered the Guernsey-man, who did not seem to relish the job he was at very much.
-- Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits shortly to be anticipated, Perth, the begrimed, blistered old blacksmith, had not removed his portable forge to the hold again, after concluding his contributory work for Ahab's leg, but still retained it on deck, fast lashed to ringbolts by the foremast; being now almost incessantly invoked by the headsmen, and harpooneers, and bowsmen to do some little job for them; altering, or repairing, or new shaping their various weapons and boat furniture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' said Mr. Sowerberry, taking up his hat, 'the sooner this job is done, the better.
-- 'The short and the long of what you mean,' said Nancy: speaking very emphatically, and slightly frowning at Oliver as if to bespeak his serious attention to her words: 'is, that if you're crossed by him in this job you have on hand, you'll prevent his ever telling tales afterwards, by shooting him through the head, and will take your chance of swinging for it, as you do for a great many other things in the way of business, every month of your life.'
-- But it turned out a good job for you; didn't it, Fagin!And what's six weeks of it?
-- He has done many a good job for you, and will do many more when he can; and when he can't he won't; so no more about that.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had they thought fit to have gone to sleep there, as the other part of them had done, they had done the job for us; but they were too full of apprehensions of danger to venture to go to sleep, though they could not tell what the danger was they had to fear.
-- I might well say now, indeed, that the latter end of Job was better than the beginning.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I had a job in Newark until last October," returned the other, with reciprocal feeling.
-- "If I had any job in Newark I wouldn't be over here takin' chances like these."
-- "The job I had I lost 'cause they shut down.
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