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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called 'A Voyage round the world.'
-- We made a long march the remain-ing part of the day, and, rested at night with five hundred guards on each side of me, half with torches, and half with bows and arrows, ready to shoot me if I should offer to stir.
-- I said, 'His majesty should be satisfied; for I was ready to strip myself, and turn up my pockets before him.'
-- In the mean time he ordered three thousand of his choicest troops (who then attended him) to surround me at a distance, with their bows and ar-rows just ready to discharge; but I did not observe it, for mine eyes were wholly fixed upon his majesty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
-- A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
-- A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
-- Mr. Gradgrind and his friend Bounderby stood near the door, ready to take her away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Extinct, any time these five hundred years," was the ready reply.
-- Neither of them had any thought about money; one was ready to take all that was offered him, the other ready to offer anything that was asked.
-- There was little for them to eat, but moss and some very dry and innutritious grass; next day they were ready before the door, some time before we were.
-- I was ready to faint from hunger and cold.
-- Hans slept tranquilly at the foot of a rock in a kind of rill of lava, where he had made himself a rough and ready bed.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only a dank ride in a motor-car up a dark, damp drive, burrow-ing through gloomy trees, out to the slope of the park where grey damp sheep were feeding, to the knoll where the house spread its dark brown facade, and the housekeeper and her husband were hovering, like unsure tenants on the face of the earth, ready to stammer a welcome.
-- She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail par-ties, and jazzed, and Charlestoned till they were ready to drop.
-- Hilda had talks with her; Mrs Bolton was ready at any moment to talk.
-- 'Ah'm gettin' th' coops ready for th' young bods,' he said, in broad vernacular.
-- There, in the world of the mechanical greedy, greedy mechanism and mechanized greed, sparkling with lights and gushing hot metal and roaring with traffic, there lay the vast evil thing, ready to destroy whatever did not conform.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereas she had put the lump of coarse bread into the swart, scaled, knotted hands of John Baptist (who had scarcely as much nail on his eight fingers and two thumbs as would have made out one for Monsieur Rigaud), with ready confidence; and, when he kissed her hand, had herself passed it caressingly over his face.
-- The little man obeyed his orders, and stood ready to give him a lighted match; for he was now rolling his tobacco into cigarettes by the aid of little squares of paper which had been brought in with it.
-- Either I shall go free, or I shall go to be made ready for shaving.
-- In his submission, in his lightness, in his good humour, in his short-lived passion, in his easy contentment with hard bread and hard stones, in his ready sleep, in his fits and starts, altogether a true son of the land that gave him birth.
-- Now, Pet, my darling, you had better go along with Mother and get ready for the boat.
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