assist是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 协助， 帮助， 促进vi. 帮忙， 参加，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：
-- He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let our good friend here, assist you on that side.
-- Monsieur Gabelle was the Postmaster, and some other taxing functionary united; he had come out with great ob-sequiousness to assist at this examination, and had held the examined by the drapery of his arm in an official manner.
-- Mr. Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers.
-- I did what little could be done to assist that opportunity, and by-and-bye she sank into a lethargy, and lay like the dead.
-- I released her arms, and called the woman to assist me to compose her figure and the dress she had to.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He obviously wants to offend me," pursued Sergey Ivanovitch; "but he cannot offend me, and I should have wished with all my heart to assist him, but I know it's impossible to do that."
-- And one can but sympathize with this desire to assist in the general labor of man."
-- asked Vronsky, thinking that, as a Russian Maecenas, it was his duty to assist the artist regardless of whether the picture were good or bad.
-- All these worrying negotiations, this endless going from place to place, and talking with pleasant and excellent people, who quite saw the unpleasantness of the petitioner's position, but were powerless to assist him--all these efforts that yielded no result, led to a feeling of misery in Levin akin to the mortifying helplessness one experiences in dreams when one tries to use physical force.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside him, seated at the long shelf which served as table, beneath the noble red-glass window with a portrait of George Washington, was a policeman who, as he gnawed a Hamburger sandwich, demanded: "Say, ain't you this new doctor that's come to assist Pickerbaugh?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, I want- ed to make your personal acquaintance, as I have already heard a great deal about you that is interesting and flatter- ing; secondly, I cherish the hope that you may not refuse to assist me in a matter directly concerning the welfare of your sister, Avdotya Romanovna.
-- Then, begging her pardon for all past unpleasantness, to make her a present of ten thousand roubles and so assist the rupture with Mr. Luzhin, a rupture to which I believe she is herself not disinclined, if she could see the way to it.'
-- I might indirectly assist the cause of enlight-enment and propaganda.
-- Mr. Lebeziatnikov, I hope, will assist us.
-- Though Katerina Ivanovna tried to appear to be disdain-fully unaware of it, she raised her voice and began at once speaking with conviction of Sonia's undoubted ability to assist her, of 'her gentleness, patience, devotion, generosity and good education,' tapping Sonia on the cheek and kiss-ing her warmly twice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 683I Assist at an ExplosionCHAPTER LIII .
-- Having laid in the materials for a bowl of punch, to becompounded by Mr. Micawber; having provided a bottle oflavender-water, two wax candles, a paper of mixed pins, and apincushion, to assist Mrs. Micawber in her toilette, at my dressing-table; having also caused the fire in my bed-room to be lighted forMrs. Micawber's convenience; and having laid the cloth with myown hands, I awaited the result with composure.
-- We must, in a measure, assist to 389turn them up.
-- As I felt bound to assist him in this, and also to mediate betweenthem; with the view of sparing the mother's feelings as much aspossible, I wrote to her that night.
-- I told him that my old nurse would be delighted to assist him, andthat we would all three take the field together, but on onecondition.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Concession must be out of the question; but it was time to appear to forget that they had ever quarrelled; and she hoped it might rather assist the restoration of friendship, that when he came into the room she had one of the children with her the youngest, a nice little girl about eight months old, who was now making her first visit to Hartfield, and very happy to be danced about in her aunt's arms.
-- And she talked in this way so long and successfully that, when forced to give her attention again to her father and sister, she had nothing worse to hear than Isabella's kind in-quiry after Jane Fairfax; and Jane Fairfax, though no great favourite with her in general, she was at that moment very happy to assist in praising.
-- Emma, who was not really at all frightened herself, tran-quillised this excess of apprehension by assurances of Mrs. Goddard's experience and care; but as there must still re-main a degree of uneasiness which she could not wish to reason away, which she would rather feed and assist than not, she added soon afterwards as if quite another sub-ject, 'It is so cold, so very cold and looks and feels so very much like snow, that if it were to any other place or with any other party, I should really try not to go out to-day and dissuade my father from venturing; but as he has made up his mind, and does not seem to feel the cold himself, I do not like to interfere, as I know it would be so great a dis-appointment to Mr. and Mrs. Weston.
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