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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear Rosa,' interposed Mrs. Steerforth, laughing good-naturedly, 'suggest some other supposition!James and I know ourduty to each other better, I pray Heaven!'
-- 'Em'ly's run away!Oh, Mas'r Davy, think how she's run away,when I pray my good and gracious God to kill her (her that is sodear above all things) sooner than let her come to ruin anddisgrace!'
-- Pray Heaven that I am goingaway from, have compassion on my uncle!Tell him that I neverloved him half so dear.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray do not make any more matches.'
-- 'But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously.'
-- Pray excuse me; but suppos-ing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquain-tance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.
-- Pray, pray at-tempt it.
-- 'Pray do.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Listen to me this once only this once!I don't say he's such a bad man as I have fancied I pray to God he is not.
-- I took for earnest what you insist was jest, and now this that I pray to be jest you say is awful, wretched earnest.
-- "Don't, don't, oh, don't pray down evil upon him!"
-- I pray God he may not come into my sight, for I may be tempted beyond myself.
-- "Well, at High Church they pray singing, and worship all the colours of the rainbow; and at High Chapel they pray preaching, and worship drab and whitewash only.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is quite right and proper, mademoiselle, to pray to Heaven to soften your father's heart," said Vautrin, as he drew a chair nearer to the orphan girl; "but that is not enough.
-- If you can induce him to relent a little towards me, I will pray to God for you.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Troop met twice a week in Jonesboro to drill and to pray for the war to begin.
-- When she had finished her prayers for those beneath the roof of Tara, her father, mother, sisters, three dead babiesand "all the poor souls in Purgatory," she clasped her white beads between long fingers and began the Rosary, like therushing of a soft wind, the responses from black throats and white throats rolled back: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death."
-- Ellen had taught her that at the end of each day it was her duty to examine her conscience thoroughly,to admit her numerous faults and pray to God for forgiveness and strength never to repeat them.
-- "Would you pray for me?"
-- Pray give me only one moment more of your precious time before you castme into darkness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And pray what might you want with him?"
-- Pray let me take these bags from you.
-- Pray make the best use of your time.
-- If you can ever write under my name, "I forgive her," though ever so long after my broken heart is dust pray do it!"
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