leisure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 空闲， 闲暇； 悠闲， 安逸，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：
-- He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world, and he cultivated a taste for its stores of knowledge and fancy.
-- After some men-tal debating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be as well to get all the preliminaries done with, and they could then arrange at their leisure whether he should give her his hand a week or two before Michaelmas Term, or in the little Christmas vacation between it and Hilary.
-- Such ample leisure had the stone faces, now, for listening to the trees and to the fountain, that the few village scarecrows who, in their quest for herbs to eat and fragments of dead stick to burn, strayed within sight of the great stone courtyard and terrace staircase, had it borne in upon their starved fancy that the expression of the faces was altered.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the profits of labor, on which they might improve their position, and gain leisure for themselves, and after that education, all the surplus values are taken from them by the capitalists.
-- Liza Merkalova was his wife's niece, and he spent all his leisure hours with her.
-- He had a great deal of leisure and intellectual energy still to dispose of.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He believed that he was learning to take life easily and beautifully; he criticized Terry Wickett (but only to himself) for provincialism; and so in a golden leisure they came back to America and prohibition and politicians charging to protect the Steel Trust from the communists, to conversation about bridge and motors and to osmotic pressure determinations.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had now leisure to examine the purse.
-- But as we drew nearerto the end of our journey, he had more to do and less time forgallantry; and when we got on Yarmouth pavement, we were alltoo much shaken and jolted, I apprehend, to have any leisure foranything else.
-- In this house, and with this family, I passed my leisure time.
-- He was sointent upon it, that I had ample leisure to observe the large paperkite in a corner, the confusion of bundles of manuscript, thenumber of pens, and, above all, the quantity of ink (which he 194seemed to have in, in half-gallon jars by the dozen), before heobserved my being present.
-- Miss Murdstone, during the latter portion of the contest, haddismounted, and was now waiting with her brother at the bottomof the steps until my aunt should be at leisure to receive them.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had still a small house in High-bury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.
-- She hardly wished to have more leisure for them.
-- With such sensations, Mr. Elton's civilities were dread-fully ill-timed; but she had the comfort of appearing very polite, while feeling very cross and of thinking that the rest of the visit could not possibly pass without bringing forward the same information again, or the substance of it, from the open-hearted Mr. Weston. So it proved; for when happily released from Mr. Elton, and seated by Mr. Weston, at dinner, he made use of the very first interval in the cares of hospitality, the very first leisure from the saddle of mutton, to say to her, 'We want only two more to be just the right number.
-- Perhaps they began to feel it might have been kinder and wiser to have resisted the temptation of any delay, and spared her from a taste of such enjoyments of ease and leisure as must now be relin-quished.
-- Alas!there was soon no leisure for quarrelling with Mr. Knightley.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His mind sped into the future, and saw there enacted in years of leisure the scenes of repentance that would ensue from this work of haste.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
-- I had sufficient leisure for these and many other reflec-tions during my journey to Ingolstadt, which was long and fatiguing.
-- The old man, whom I soon perceived to be blind, employed his leisure hours on his instrument or in contem-plation.
-- He intended to leave his daughter under the care of a confiden-tial servant, to follow at her leisure with the greater part of his property, which had not yet arrived at Leghorn.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloreddreams that had in them no touch of reality.
-- The sight of so much hurrying made Scarlett, fresh from rural leisure and quiet, almost breathless, but she likedit.
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