satisfy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 满意， 使满意， 使相信， 说服，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I would rather you let that alone,' said the man, 'for I do not willingly give myself up to be eaten; if you are wanting food I have enough to satisfy your hunger.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To satisfy my curious reader, it may be sufficient to describe Lorbrulgrud.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To satisfy my conscience, I ate for both.
-- My explanation however satisfied him, and having gotten the key, she soon contrived to get sufficient to satisfy our voracious appetites.
-- But the best way to satisfy your scruples is to come and judge for yourself."
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：
-- The physical desire he did not satisfy in her; he was always come and fin-ished so quickly, then shrinking down on her breast, and recovering somewhat his effrontery while she lay dazed, disappointed, lost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arthur Clennam suffered them to pass the corner of the street before he followed at a distance; not with any idea of encroaching a second time on Little Dorrit's privacy, but to satisfy his mind by seeing her secure in the neighbourhood to which she was accustomed.
-- But his desire was to the utmost to satisfy Society (whatever that was), and take up all its drafts upon him for tribute.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the con-sciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.'
-- Going to college ought to satisfy him, for if I give him four years he ought to let me off from the business.
-- 'Couldn't you satisfy your grandpa in any other way?'
-- She never broke her word, and was much exer-cised in her mind how to get round it, and at last devised a plan whereby she could satisfy herself.
-- 'I'm very sorry you were disappointed, dear, but we all did our best to satisfy you,' said Mrs. March, in a tone full of motherly regret.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps.
-- Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one rival, was to them the monarch of the seas.
-- But little King-Post was small and short, and at the same time little King-Post was full of a large and tall ambition, so that this loggerhead stand-point of his did by no means satisfy King-Post.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Wide,' replied Toby, after peeping in to satisfy himself.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The happiness anticipated by Catherine and Lydia depended less on any single event, or any particular person, for though they each, like Elizabeth, meant to dance half the evening with Mr. Wickham, he was by no means the only partner who could satisfy them, and a ball was, at any rate, a ball.
-- But the fact is, that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honoured father (who, however, may live many years lon-ger), I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters, that the loss to them might be as little as possible, when the melancholy event takes place which, however, as I have already said, may not be for several years.
-- 'Thank you, sir, but a less agreeable man would satisfy me.
-- She saw instantly that her cousin's manners were not altered by his marriage; his formal ci-vility was just what it had been, and he detained her some minutes at the gate to hear and satisfy his inquiries after all her family.
-- But her commendation, though costing her some trouble, could by no means satisfy Mr. Collins, and he was very soon obliged to take her ladyship's praise into his own hands.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found in the low grounds hares (as I thought them to be) and fox-es; but they differed greatly from all the other kinds I had met with, nor could I satisfy myself to eat them, though I killed several.
-- But as this is usually the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it is as commonly the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time - so it was with me now; and yet so deep had the mis-take taken root in my temper, that I could not satisfy myself in my station, but was continually poring upon the means and possibility of my escape from this place; and that I may, with greater pleasure to the reader, bring on the remaining part of my story, it may not be improper to give some ac-count of my first conceptions on the subject of this foolish scheme for my escape, and how, and upon what foundation, I acted.
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