charter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 宪章; 特许状; 租赁; vt. 特许, 发执照，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For eight-and-forty hours let me charter your ship I will gladly pay for it, and roundly pay for it if there be no other way for eight-and-forty hours only only that you must, oh, you must, and you shall do this thing."
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Bless me, child, you will have to charter an omnibus to carry them about.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For three hours Phileas Fogg wandered about the docks, with the determination, if necessary, to charter a vessel to carry him to Yokohama; but he could only find vessels which were loading or unloading, and which could not therefore set sail.
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