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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a breathlessweek when something within her drove Scarlett with mingled pain and pleasure to pack and cram every minute withincidents to remember after he was gone, happenings which she could examine at leisure in the long months ahead,extracting every morsel of comfort from them dance, sing, laugh, fetch and carry for Ashley, anticipate his wants,smile when he smiles, be silent when he talks, follow him with your eyes so that each line of his erect body, each liftof his eyebrows, each quirk of his mouth, will be indelibly printed on your mind for a week goes by so fast and thewar goes on forever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up.
-- I had leisure to entertain the retort in my mind, while he slowly lifted his heavy glance from the pavement, up my legs and arms, to my face.
-- "I have not leisure to think of that," said I.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One can walk along at one's leisure behind that cow keep good company, and have milk, butter, and cheese, every day, into the bargain.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their lan-guage; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.
-- Besides, I had learnt their alphabet, and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; for Glumdalclitch had been my instructor while we were at home, and at leisure hours during our journey.
-- And this puts me in mind of an amusement, where-in I spent many of my leisure hours.
-- He said, 'if I would go with him to his coun-try-house, about twenty miles distant, where his estate lay, 219there would be more leisure for this kind of conversation.'
-- The curiosity and impatience of my master were so great, that he spent many hours of his leisure to instruct me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took no place among those remarkable 'Hands,' who, piecing together their broken intervals of leisure through many years, had mastered difficult sciences, and acquired a knowledge of most unlikely things.
-- After that, he wrote no more about them, and devoted his leisure chiefly to their house.
-- Master Kidderminster, grown too maturely turfy to be received by the wildest credulity as Cupid any more, had yielded to the invincible force of circumstances (and his beard), and, in the capacity of a man who made himself generally useful, presided on this occasion over the exchequer having also a drum in reserve, on which to expend his leisure moments and superfluous forces.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest of this day of leisure and repose was spent in calculation and conversation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sister was so apt a pupil, and the dancing-master had such abundant leisure to bestow upon her (for it took him a matter of ten weeks to set to his creditors, lead off, turn the Commissioners, and right and left back to his professional pursuits), that wonderful progress was made.
-- Have you leisure for a turn in the Park?'
-- A Letter from Little DorritDear Mr Clennam,As I said in my last that it was best for nobody to write to me, and as my sending you another little letter can therefore give you no other trouble than the trouble of reading it (perhaps you may not find leisure for even that, though I hope you will some day), I am now going to devote an hour to writing to you again.
-- Bar had devoted his leisure in the street to the construction of a most ingenious man-trap for catching the whole of his jury at a blow; having got that matter settled in his mind, it was lucid on the late catastrophe, and they walked home slowly, discussing it in every bearing.
-- 'I suppress my ardour to embrace you and achieve this interesting business, in order that you may have leisure to adjust its details to our perfect mutual satisfaction.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't you feel that it is pleasanter to help one an-other, to have daily duties which make leisure sweet when it comes, and to bear and forbear, that home may be comfort-able and lovely to us all?'
-- If the amiable gentle-man who wrote that kindly note could have known what intense happiness he was giving a fellow creature, I think he would devote his leisure hours, if he has any, to that amuse-ment, for Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleas-ant to find that she had learned to do something, though it was only to write a sensation story.
-- She longed to run to meet him, and beg pardon, and be kissed and comforted, as she was sure of being, but, of course, she did nothing of the sort, and when she saw John coming, began to hum quite naturally, as she rocked and sewed, like a lady of leisure in her best parlor.
-- The teaching would render her independent, and such leisure as she got might be made profitable by writing, while the new scenes and society would be both useful and agreeable.
-- Did John ever neglect you, as you call it, while you made it a point to give him your society of an evening, his only leisure time?'
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