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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And now, though I know you have already done it in your own kind hearts, pray tell me, both, that you forgive me!Pray let me hear you say the words, that I may carry the sound of them away with me, and then I shall be able to believe that you can trust me, and think better of me, in the time to come!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he said, 'Master, my time is up; I must go home and see my poor mother once more: so pray pay me my wages and let me go.'
-- said the ass; 'upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about?'
-- 'Pray lift me upon chair,' said he to the princess, 'and let me sit next to you.'
-- But the false bride said to the prince, 'Dear husband, pray do me one piece of kindness.'
-- Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray excuse my intrusion.
-- 'Well then, pray don't speak to me, nor yet take any notice of me,' said the old woman.
-- Pray let me know it.'
-- 'Thank you very much, sir,' that discreet lady observed, 'but pray do not let My comfort be a consideration.
-- Pray let me see you cheerful, sir, as I used to do.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And pray why not?
-- Pray listen to reason.
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：
-- 'Well, my Lady, I only hope and pray you may.
-- 'They treasure up every one of your pictures in the il-lustrated papers, and probably pray for you every night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go away from me, and let me pray and cry myself better!'
-- Pray sit down, Mr Clennam.'
-- 'Pray allow me to ' chink, chink, chink.
-- 'Pray forgive me,' he said, 'for speaking to you here; pray forgive me for coming here at all!I followed you to-night.
-- Pray how did you introduce her at my mother's!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.
-- The knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it, made her own easier to bear and strengthened her resolution to cure it, though forty years seemed rather a long time to watch and pray to a girl of fifteen.
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