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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, there is no illusory grace left to the poverty that reigns here; it is dire, parsimonious, concentrated, threadbare poverty; as yet it has not sunk into the mire, it is only splashed by it, and though not in rags as yet, its clothing is ready to drop to pieces.
-- She has the glassy eyes and innocent air of a trafficker in flesh and blood, who will wax virtuously indignant to obtain a higher price for her services, but who is quite ready to betray a Georges or a Pichegru, if a Georges or a Pichegru were in hiding and still to be betrayed, or for any other expedient that may alleviate her lot.
-- "No sooner does a trouble befall you than a friend is ready to bring the tidings and to probe your heart with the point of a dagger while calling on 莽卢卢38 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 you to admire the handle.
-- Delphine de Nucingen, the wife of a great capitalist, is consumed with envy, and ready to die of spleen.
-- de Beauseant's counsels, the words uttered in anger by the forsaken lady, her petulant offer, came to his mind, and poverty was a ready expositor.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hang-ing in the stars and ready to envelop me.
-- Depart to your home and commence your labours; 178 FrankensteinI shall watch their progress with unutterable anxiety; and fear not but that when you are ready I shall appear.'
-- I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debil-ity might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They'll be in a stew getting ready for the barbecue tomorrow and besides " "Oh, I forgot about that," said Brent hastily.
-- She reminds me of a skinnyhen perched on a chair, her eyes kind of bright and blank and scared, all ready to flap and squawk at the slightest moveanybody makes."
-- Let's ride across the swamp to AbelWynder's place and tell him we're all four home again and ready for drill."
-- Gerald was likable, and the neighbors learned in time what the children, negroes and dogs discovered atfirst sight, that a kind heart, a ready and sympathetic ear and an open pocketbook lurked just behind his.
-- If she was only fifteen years old, shewas nevertheless ready for the responsibilities of the mistress of a plantation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy in getting the house ready for the festivities of the day, and Joe had been put upon the kitchen doorstep to keep him out of the dust-pan,--an article into which his destiny always led him, sooner or later, when my sister was vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment.
-- A man needn't go far to find a subject, if he's ready with his salt-box."
-- The sergeant tossed off his glass again and seemed quite ready for another glass.
-- "When I offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, 'And bring the poor little child.
-- We got a chair out, ready for Mrs. Joe's alighting, and stirred up the fire that they might see a bright window, and took a final survey of the kitchen that nothing might be out of its place.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a lit-tle way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
-- When all was ready a sig-nal was given, and they began their music.
-- And when he came into the palace, the flies were sleeping on the walls; the spit was standing still; the butler had the 36 Grimms' Fairy Talesjug of ale at his lips, going to drink a draught; the maid sat with a fowl in her lap ready to be plucked; and the cook in the kitchen was still holding up her hand, as if she was go-ing to beat the boy.
-- When she grew up, she was betrothed to a prince who lived a great way off; and as the time drew near for her to be married, she got ready to set off on her journey to his country.
-- And the young king rejoiced when he saw her beauty, and heard how meek and patient she had been; and without saying anything to the false bride, the king ordered a great feast to be got ready for all his court.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
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