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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was fatherly; almost he made Martin repent; but he concluded, "And as for Clawson, his 'joke' regarding this Benoni Carr person--and why I never looked the fellow up is beyond me, I suppose I was too busy--his 'joke,' as you call it, was the action either of an idiot or a blackguard, and until you are able to perceive that fact, I don't think you will be ready to come back to us."
-- Are you ready to go away with me--forever?"
-- They decided that this new, mature Martin, this new, hard-eyed Leora were ready to throw away everything for each other.
-- In his speeches Pickerbaugh commended Pugh for "that firm integrity and ready sympathy with which His Honor had backed up every movement for the public weal," and when Pickerbaugh (quite honestly) begged, "Mr. Mayor, if I go to Congress you must appoint Arrowsmith in my place; he knows nothing about politics but he's incorruptible," then Pugh gave his promise, and amity abode in that land.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
-- And as for some defects of character, for some habits and even certain differences of opinion which indeed are inevitable even in the happiest marriages Dounia has said that, as regards all that, she relies on herself, that there is nothing to be uneasy about, and that she is ready to put up with a great deal, if only their future relationship can be an honourable and straightforward one.
-- Oh, with what happiness I shall press you to my heart!Dounia is all excitement at the joyful thought of see-ing you, she said one day in joke that she would be ready to marry Pyotr Petrovitch for that alone.
-- That wretched nag was to drag all the cartload of them at a gallop!Two young fellows in the cart were just getting whips ready to help Mikolka.
-- She is such a soft, gentle creature, ready to put up with anything, always willing, willing to do anything.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I couldn't quite understand why Peggotty looked soqueer, or why she was so ready to go back to the crocodiles.
-- Oh!If that was it, I wasquite ready to go.
-- She took outan old black silk handkerchief and wiped her eyes; but instead ofputting it in her pocket, kept it out, and wiped them again, and stillkept it out, ready for use.
-- My mother is ready for me at herwriting-desk, but not half so ready as Mr. Murdstone in his easy-chair by the window (though he pretends to be reading a book), oras Miss Murdstone, sitting near my mother stringing steel beads.
-- But I did, and I am ready to take theconsequences of it.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was ready to tell every thing in her power, but on this subject questions were vain.
-- Harriet was very ready to speak of the share he had had in their moonlight walks and merry evening games; and dwelt a good deal upon his being so very good-humoured and obliging.
-- She must allow him to be still fre-quently coming to look; any thing less would certainly have been too little in a lover; and he was ready at the smallest intermission of the pencil, to jump up and see the progress, and be charmed. There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a like-ness almost before it was possible.
-- A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.'
-- Thy ready wit the word will soon supply, May its approval beam in that soft eye!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had Gabriel been able from the first to get a distinct view of her countenance, his estimate of it as very handsome or slightly so would have been as his soul required a divinity at the moment or was ready supplied with one.
-- Oak had nothing finished and ready to say as yet, and not being able to frame love phrases which end where they begin; passionate tales Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing he said no word at all.
-- It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
-- Boldwood mistook his confusion: sensitive persons are always ready with their "Is it I?"
-- The spacious ends of the building, answering ecclesiastically to nave and chancel extremities, were fenced off with hurdles, the sheep being all collected in a crowd within these two enclosures; and in one angle a catching-pen was formed, in which three or four sheep were continuously kept ready for the shearers to seize without loss of time.
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