service是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 服务； 公共设施； 维修保养； 行政部门v. 维修，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《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time required for the completion of his scientific investigations, at the fixed salary of three rix-dollars a week, being exactly fourteen shillings and twopence, minus one farthing, English currency.
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：
-- He sent a servant to ask, could he be of any service to Lady Chatterley: he thought of driving into Sheffield.
-- He, as was inevitable in the course of time, took all the service for granted.
-- So, in the flux of new awakening, the old hard passion flamed in her for a time, and the man dwindled to a con-temptible object, the mere phallos-bearer, to be torn to pieces when his service was performed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kept his small smooth hand in constant requisition, as if it were a witness to his gentility that had often done him good service before.
-- 'Mrs Clennam has been of great service to me; I don't know what we should have done without the employment she has given me; I am afraid it may not be a good return to become secret with her; I can say no more to-night, sir.
-- I have often thought that if such a change could come, it might be anything but a service to him now.
-- Very likely he would be thankful himself (and with reason), that he had had the means and chance of doing a little service to her, who well deserved a great one.
-- However, he had naturally felt a preference for his own country, and a wish to gain distinction there, and to do whatever service he could do, there rather than elsewhere.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Laurence has commissions for me in Washing-ton, and it will give me real satisfaction to be of service to her there.'
-- And Amy, in her exile, longed eagerly to be at home, that she might work for Beth, feeling now that no service would be hard or irksome, and remembering, with regretful grief, how many neglected tasks those willing hands had done for her.
-- I also doubt if any young matron ever began life with so rich a supply of dusters, holders, and piece bags, for Beth made enough to last till the silver wedding came round, and invented three different kinds of dishcloths for the express service of the bridal china.
-- Her expe-rience and miscellaneous reading were of service now, for they gave her some idea of dramatic effect, and supplied plot, language, and costumes.
-- 'My dear, go out to service in that great boarding house!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Further on, from the bright red windows of the "Sword-Fish Inn," there came such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement, rather weary for me, when I struck my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight.
-- I've been several voyages in the merchant service, and I think that ""Merchant service be damned.
-- Dost see that leg? I'll take that leg away from thy stern, if ever thou talkest of the marchant service to me again.
-- Marchant service indeed!I suppose now ye feel considerable proud of having served in those marchant ships.
-- And all this seemed natural enough; especially as in the merchant service many captains never show themselves on deck for a considerable time after heaving up the anchor, but remain over the cabin table, having a farewell merry-making with their shore friends, before they quit the ship for good with the pilot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble then thrashed a boy or two, to keep up appearances; and the reverend gentleman, having read as much of the burial service as could be compressed into four minutes, gave his surplice to the clerk, and walked away again.
-- Mr. Giles acted in the double capacity of butler and steward to the old lady of the mansion; Brittles was a lad of all-work: who, having entered her service a mere child, was treated as a promising young boy still, though he was something past thirty.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wickham's society was of material service in dis-pelling the gloom which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of the Longbourn family.
-- Wickham is the son of a very respectable man, who had for many years the management of all the Pemberley es-tates, and whose good conduct in the discharge of his trust naturally inclined my father to be of service to him; and on George Wickham, who was his godson, his kindness was therefore liberally bestowed.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may suppose, that having now lived almost four years in the Brazils, and beginning to thrive and prosper very well upon my plantation, I had not only learned the language, but had contracted acquaintance and friendship among my fellow-planters, as well as among the merchants at St. Salvador, which was our port; and that, in my discourses among them, I had frequently given them an account of my two voyages to the coast of Guinea: the manner of trading with the negroes there, and how easy it was to purchase upon the coast for trifles - such as beads, toys, knives, scissors, hatchets, bits of glass, and the like - not only gold-dust, Guinea grains, elephants' teeth, &c., but negroes, for the service of the Brazils, in great numbers.
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