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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He struggled desperately, but his captors were prepared for his violence, and had a long rope ready with a slip knot, which caught his tail and rendered him powerless at once.
-- Tom obeyed, and in a few minutes brought in the bottle and laid it on the table, at which Lord Glenarvan and the Major were sitting ready with the captain, and, of course Lady Helena, for women, they say, are always a little curious.
-- Lord Glenarvan had in them a band of trusty fellows, skilled in their calling, devoted to himself, full of courage, and as practiced in handling fire-arms as in the maneuvering of a ship; a valiant little troop, ready to follow him any where, even in the most dangerous expeditions.
-- He had also to get cabins ready for the children of Captain Grant, as Lady Helena could not refuse Mary's request to accompany her.
-- I hope we shall find it ready when we come back."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible to express the astonishment of these poor creatures at the noise and fire of my gun: some of them were even ready to die for fear, and fell down as dead with the very terror; but when they saw the creature dead, and sunk in the water, and that I made signs to them to come to the shore, they took heart and came, and began to search for the creature.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 5No sooner was her answer dispatched, than Mrs. Dashwood indulged herself in the pleasure of announcing to her son-in-law and his wife that she was provided with a house, and should incommode them no longer than till every thing were ready for her inhabiting it.
-- Mrs. Dashwood took the house for a twelvemonth; it was ready furnished, and she might have immediate possession.
-- With the size and furniture of the house Mrs. Dashwood was upon the whole well satisfied; for though her former style of life rendered many additions to the latter indispensable, yet to add and improve was a delight to her; and she had at this time ready money enough to supply all that was wanted of greater elegance to the apartments.
-- If it will be any satisfaction to you, however, to be told, that I believe his character to be in other respects irreproachable, I am ready to confess it.
-- "I am going into the village to see my horses," said he, "as you are not yet ready for breakfast; I shall be back again presently."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With ready will and quick mental selection she scattered her meagre four-fifty per week with a swift and graceful hand.
-- "We'll go some other time," she said at last, finding no ready means of escape.
-- "Well, good luck," said Minnie, when she was ready to go.
-- "Now," he said, addressing first Carrie and then Drouet with his eyes, "you must be ready at 7.30.
-- "Did you know, mother," said Jessica another day, "the Spencers are getting ready to go away?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try.
-- I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson they could kill her.
-- How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?'
-- Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of rais-ing.
-- Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin' for HIM and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Get my best coach ready and set out toward the forest.
-- Sleep away peacefully, and remember that before we go we shall leave you a nice fat chicken all ready for your breakfast in the morning.
-- Without knowing it, I rubbed myself against a newly painted wall," he lied, ashamed to say that he had been made ready for the frying pan.
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