grant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 同意给予; 同意或承认某事属实; n. 拨款, 补助款，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：
-- "All, dear Helena; I can fill up every one of these blanks the sea has made in the document as easily as if Captain Grant were dictating to me."
-- Making for the shore, two sailors and Captain Grant are about to land on the continent, where they will be taken prisoners by cruel Indians.
-- Perhaps this ill-fated Captain Grant had a wife and children," suggested Lady Helena.
-- During the recital, Robert Grant was devouring the speaker with his eyes, and hanging on her lips.
-- Miss Grant sat silent and motionless, with clasped hands, and all she said when the narration ended, was: "Oh, ma'am, the paper, please!"
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 will you not grant my last wish?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sons of Atreus,' he cried, 'and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apol-lo, son of Jove.'
-- If I have ever decked your temple with gar-lands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans.'
-- Honour him then yourself, Olympian lord of counsel, and grant victory to the Trojans, till the Achaeans give my son his due and load him with riches in requital.'
-- They stood round the bull with the barley-meal in their hands, and Agamemnon prayed, saying, 'Jove, most glorious, supreme, that dwell-est in heaven, and ridest upon the storm-cloud, grant that the sun may not go down, nor the night fall, till the palace of Priam is laid low, and its gates are consumed with fire.
-- Grant that my sword may pierce the shirt of Hector about his heart, and that full many of his comrades may bite the dust as they fall dying round him.'
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：
-- 'No honest man will deny it,' said the scout, a little net-tled at the implied distrust of his explanation of the mystery of the tides; 'and I grant that it is true on the small scale, and where the land is level.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The curious circumstances which led to the escape of the prisoners were as follows: That same year, in the month of February, 1865, in one of the coups de main by which General Grant attempted, though in vain, to possess himself of Richmond, several of his officers fell into the power of the enemy and were detained in the town.
-- Meanwhile Grant continued his energetic operations.
-- "This evening, at ten o'clock," replied Captain Harding; "and Heaven grant that the storm does not abate before our departure.
-- "God grant it!"
-- They continued then to follow the shores of Lake Grant by climbing the plateau; but, after having gone a mile in this direction, Cyrus Harding had not been able to discover the overfall, which, however, must exist somewhere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few confined themselves to hints, such as politely inquiring what red-letter day or saint's day the almanack said it was; a few (these were the profound village politicians) argued that it was a slight to the throne and an affront to church and state, and savoured of revolutionary principles, to grant a half-holiday upon any lighter occasion than the birthday of the Monarch; but the majority expressed their displeasure on private grounds and in plain terms, arguing that to put the pupils on this short allowance of learning was nothing but an act of downright robbery and fraud: and one old lady, finding that she could not inflame or irritate the peaceable schoolmaster by talking to him, bounced out of his house and talked at him for half-an-hour outside his own window, to another old lady, saying that of course he would deduct this half-holiday from his weekly charge, or of course he would naturally expect to have an opposition started against him; there was no want of idle chaps in that neighbourhood (here the old lady raised her voice), and some chaps who were too idle even to be schoolmasters, might soon find that there were other chaps put over their heads, and so she would have them take care, and look pretty sharp about them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "May God grant it.
-- May God grant that every Russian could feed so well."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a queer notion of Grant Allen's came into my head, and amused me.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And come to think on it, it was like Flint's voice, I grant you, but not just so clear-away like it, after all.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't grant her the power to be impudent to me."
-- Ah, if only she would grant him the flow of this living effluence, he would be restored, he would be complete again.
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