ready是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (for) 准备好的， 现成的； 甘心的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said 'Bah!'
-- Without ventur-ing for Scrooge quite as hardily as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much.
-- Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before the fire, and deep red curtains, ready to be drawn to shut out cold and darkness.
-- Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at the mo-ment; and I say, 'Uncle Scrooge.''
-- But before that time we shall be ready with the money; and even though we were not, it would be a bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his succes-sor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Lorry and Monsieur Defarge had made all ready for the journey, and had brought with them, besides travelling cloaks and wrappers, bread and meat, wine, and hot coffee.
-- This much, Jerry, with his head becoming more and more spiky as the law terms bristled it, made out with huge satisfac-tion, and so arrived circuitously at the understanding that the aforesaid, and over and over again aforesaid, Charles Darnay, stood there before him upon his trial; that the jury were swearing in; and that Mr. Attorney-General was mak-ing ready to speak.
-- The lion then composed himself on his back on a sofa on one side of the drinking-table, while the jackal sat at his own paper-bestrewn table proper, on the other side of it, with the bottles and glasses ready to his hand.
-- However, father and daughter did at last appear, and Miss Pross was ready at the street door to receive them.
-- Miss Pross was a pleasant sight, albeit wild, and red, and grim, taking off her darling's bonnet when she came up-stairs, and touching it up with the ends of her handkerchief, and blowing the dust off it, and folding her mantle ready for laying by, and smoothing her rich hair with as much pride as she could possibly have taken in her own hair if she had been the vainest and handsomest of women.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the Princess touched it, and was almost ready to cry.
-- 'Thou would'st not have an honorable Prince!Thou could'st not prize the rose and the nightingale, but thou wast ready to kiss the swine-herd for the sake of a trumpery plaything.
-- There were large trees in small pots, so that they stood so stunted in growth, and ready to burst the pots; in other places, there was a little dull flower in rich mould, with moss round about it, and it was so petted and nursed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is the room to be got ready upstairs?"
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was already washed and combed and ready to be dressed, when Matvey, stepping deliberately in his creaky boots, came back into the room with the telegram in his hand.
-- Anything I can do, I am ready to do anything!I am to blame, no words can express how much I am to blame!But, Dolly, forgive me!"
-- Levin was not a disreputable chum, but Oblonsky, with his ready tact, felt that Levin fancied he might not care to show his intimacy with him before his subordinates, and so he made haste to take him off into his room.
-- She skated a little uncertainly; taking her hands out of the little muff that hung on a cord, she held them ready for emergency, and looking towards Levin, whom she had recognized, she smiled at him, and at her own fears.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am quite ready now," was his tranquil response.
-- He held himself ready to bestride the animal at a moment's notice, should flight become necessary; but he evidently thought that the procession of the faithful would pass without perceiving them amid the thick foliage, in which they were wholly concealed.
-- As for Passepartout, he was ready for anything that might be proposed.
-- After a last consultation, the guide announced that he was ready for the attempt, and advanced, followed by the others.
-- They again hid themselves in the wood, and waited till the disturbance, whatever it might be, ceased, holding themselves ready to resume their attempt without delay.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was vaguely ready for a quarrel, that April evening when he called on Madeline and her mother sniffily told him that she was to be found on the roof.
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