pray是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 请求， 恳求； 祈祷， 祈求，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：
-- Pray come to me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Pray take a seat, sir.'
-- All that I may tell you, here and now, is, that I pray to you to touch me and to bless me.
-- Pray excuse me!'
-- 'Pray let there be no mistake about it.'
-- Now, pray say no more about it.
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：
-- 'Pray how did you come into possession of this rare print?
-- All would be splendidly decked out, and we should hear, 'Walk 44 Andersen's Fairy Talesin, gentlemen, pray walk in; here you will find all you please to want.'
-- Then the mother wrung her hands, fell on her knees, and prayed to our Lord: 'Oh, hear me not when I pray against Thy will, which is the best!hear me not!hear me not!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- God is merciful; pray to God, sir, pray to God."
-- Well, then, there's nothing left but to pray to God.
-- I pray to God only not to take from me the bliss of forgiveness!"
-- The priest waited a few seconds to see if he would not say more, and closing his eyes he said quickly, with a broad, Vladimirsky accent: "Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind, but we must pray that God in His mercy will strengthen us.
-- Pray to God, beseech Him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and I'll take you for a swim and pray with you.
-- "Mart, have I got to stop and pray with you?"
-- I shall pray you'll be happy--oh, I'll pray so hard!You young people don't seem to think much of prayer, but if you knew how it helped me--Oh, I'll petition for your sweet happiness!"
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：
-- I am afraid in my heart that you may have been visited by the new spirit of infidelity that is abroad to-day; If it is so, I pray for you.
-- For our elder father is dead and this is another one, but we do pray for the other as well.'
-- Pray sometimes for me, too.
-- 'I'll pray for you all the rest of my life,' the little girl de-clared hotly, and suddenly smiling again she rushed at him and hugged him warmly once more.
-- 'Pray for her soul, Dounia!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Pray let us befriends,' said my mother, 'I couldn't live under coldness orunkindness.
-- 'That you could hurt any one I love!Try to bebetter, pray to be better!I forgive you; but I am so grieved, Davy,that you should have such bad passions in your heart.'
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