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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His method had the additional advantage that if they were to take a cab he was all ready to follow them.
-- 'Is all ready for Sir Henry?'
-- Chapter 6 Baskerville Hall ir Henry Baskerville and Dr. Mortimer were ready upon Sthe appointed day, and we started as arranged for Dev-onshire.
-- On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted sol-dier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
-- 'It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here!Any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen such a creature upon the moor.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should think so!She's twenty-five years old today!And, you know, Gania, you must be ready for great things; she has promised both myself and Afanasy Ivanovitch that she will give a decided answer tonight, yes or no.
-- He had lived in the prison for some time and had not expect-ed that the execution would take place for at least a week yet he had counted on all the formalities and so on taking time; but it so happened that his papers had been got ready quickly.
-- Her usually thoughtful, pale face, which all this while had been so little in harmony with the jests and laughter which she had seemed to put on for the occasion, was now evidently agitated by new feelings, though she tried to con-ceal the fact and to look as though she were as ready as ever for jesting and irony.
-- Anyhow I am ready to trespass the laws of pro-priety if only I can get in somehow or other.'
-- 'You know, father, you would have done much better not to come at all!She is ready to eat you up!You have not shown yourself since the day before yesterday and she is ex-pecting the money.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore drive them yourself and I will be ready for him with my spear.'
-- But Patroclus told his men and the maid-servants to make ready a comfortable bed for Phoenix; they there-fore did so with sheepskins, a rug, and a sheet of fine linen.
-- He left the Achae-ans by the banks of the river Aesopus, and went to the city bearing a message of peace to the Cadmeians; on his return thence, with your help, goddess, he did great deeds of dar-ing, for you were his ready helper.
-- You, sir, know what a terrible man he is, and how ready to blame even where no blame should lie.'
-- You were ready enough to do so, and the two old men charged you much and straitly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Everything ready for you,' I said, and went to the window, opened it, and called softly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another minute, thought I, and he would have had me locked in, and as ready as a hospital rabbit for my fate.
-- He obtained the weapon, and put it ready to my hand on the table; then went out, leaving a restless contagion in the air.
-- 'The Master's will is sweet,' said the Dog-man, with the ready tact of his canine blood.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap.
-- There was no answer and Mother Wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight, if things came to fighting.
-- None of the Jungle People like being disturbed, and all are very ready to fly at an intruder.
-- Then he curled up ready for any accident, his head low-ered.
-- The Pan-ther lay gasping for breath, his head just out of the water, while the monkeys stood three deep on the red steps, danc-ing up and down with rage, ready to spring upon him from all sides if he came out to help Baloo.
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