provision是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 准备; 供应; 条款，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desir-able that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And both the Ravens nodded, and begged for a fixed ap-pointment; for they thought of their old age, and said, 'It is 106 Andersen's Fairy Talesa good thing to have a provision for our old days.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the Great Call sounds, Doctor, and it's time for you to face your reward, will you be satisfied by a big Masonic funeral and tributes from Grateful Patients if you have failed to lay up provision for the kiddies, and faithful wife who has shared your tribulations?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We made no more provision for growing older, than we didfor growing younger.
-- 'My motive,' returned Doctor Strong, 'is to make somesuitable provision for a cousin, and an old play-fellow, of Annie's.'
-- If Mr.Jack Maldon comes home on account of ill health, he must not beallowed to go back, and we must endeavour to make some moresuitable and fortunate provision for him in this country.'
-- Not tolengthen these particulars, I need only add, that she made ahandsome provision for all my possible wants during my month oftrial; that Steerforth, to my great disappointment and hers too, didnot make his appearance before she went away; that I saw hersafely seated in the Dover coach, exulting in the comingdiscomfiture of the vagrant donkeys, with Janet at her side; andthat when the coach was gone, I turned my face to the Adelphi,pondering on the old days when I used to roam about itssubterranean arches, and on the happy changes which had broughtme to the surface.
-- I was about to explain that I was not desirous of introducing thatmode of provision into the family, when Agnes inquired if myrooms were held for any long term?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is the natural daughter of nobody knows whom, with probably no settled provision at all, and certainly no respectable relations.
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the quantity of provision which I had consumed, I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But we must make a provision for winter, or else we shall suffer from hunger,' said the cat; 'and you, little mouse, cannot venture everywhere, or you will be caught in a trap some day.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle, on the other hand, was quite as devoted to his arsenal as to his collection of instruments, and above all was very careful with his provision of fulminating or gun cotton, warranted to keep in any climate, and of which the expansive force was known to be greater than that of ordinary gunpowder.
-- We opened the provision bag, ate a frugal supper, and each did his best to find a bed amid the pile of stones, dirt, and lava which had accumulated for ages at the bottom of the shaft.
-- Our provision of liquids was reduced to our supply of Schiedam; but this horrible--nay, I will say it--this infernal liquor burnt the throat, and I could not even bear the sight of it.
-- The provision of powder had, however, remained intact, after having narrowly escaped blowing us all to atoms in the storm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Provision of oranges, apples, and nuts was also made.
-- If I were not sure of it, I should, before now, have implored you, and implored your father, to let me make some provision for you in a more suitable place.
-- Under a general pretence of helping him to this refreshment, Flora got him out on the staircase; Mr F.'s Aunt even then constantly reiterating, with inexpressible bitterness, that he was 'a chap,' and had a 'proud stomach,' and over and over again insisting on that equine provision being made for him which she had already so strongly prescribed.
-- When that was done, a moment's whisper despatched Maggy to despatch somebody else to fill the basket again; which soon came back replenished with new stores, from which a present provision of cooling drink and jelly, and a prospective supply of roast chicken and wine and water, were the first extracts.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that as ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them, capable, at will, of distension or contraction; and as the Sperm Whale, as far as I know, has no such provision in him; considering, too, the otherwise inexplicable manner in which he now depresses his head altogether beneath the surface, and anon swims with it high elevated out of the water; considering the unobstructed elasticity of its envelope; considering the unique interior of his head; it has hypothetically occurred to me, I say, that those mystical lung-celled honeycombs there may possibly have some hitherto unknown and unsuspected connexion with the outer air, so as to be susceptible to atmospheric distension and contraction.
-- Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels, and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping western world.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small for-tune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
-- Chapter 50 r. Bennet had very often wished before this period of Mhis life that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him.
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