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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smooth-ing a coverlet here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
-- Pray make Brooke useful, and draw on me for funds if expenses exceed your estimate.
-- 'Truly, yes, to pray with.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stop, Stubb; somehow, now, I don't well know whether to go back and strike him, or what's that? down here on my knees and pray for him?
-- For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for the head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold.
-- Thus much being said, attend now, I pray you, to that marvellous and in this particular instance almost fatal operation whereby the Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
-- "Take them, man, I have no need for them; for I now neither shave, sup, nor pray till but here to work!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope you say your prayers every night,' said another gentleman in a gruff voice; 'and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you--like a Christian.'
-- Oh!sir, don't, don't pray be cross to me!'
-- Oh, pray send them back; send him back the books and money.
-- Keep me here all my life long; but pray, pray send them back.
-- 'Pray don't interrupt just now,' said Mr. Brownlow.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Pray tell your sister that I long to see her.'
-- 'Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improve-ment on the harp; and pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table, and I think it infinitely superior to Miss Grantley's.'
-- 'Your examination of Mr. Darcy is over, I presume,' said Miss Bingley; 'and pray what is the result?'
-- Pray do not talk of that odious man.
-- 'Pray do, my dear Miss Lucas,' she added in a melancholy tone, 'for nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
-- But something always returned swift upon me to check these thoughts, and to reprove me; and particularly one day, walking with my gun in my hand by the seaside, I was very pensive upon the subject of my present condition, when reason, as it were, expostulated with me the other way, thus: 'Well, you are in a desolate condition, it is true; but, pray remember, where are the rest of you?
-- I did not so much as pray to be delivered from it or think of it; it was all of no consideration in comparison to this.
-- 'How canst thou become such a hypocrite,' said I, even audibly, 'to pretend to be thankful for a condition which, however thou mayest endeavour to be contented with, thou wouldst rather pray heartily to be delivered from?'
-- so much as on my mind, or in my mouth; nor in the greatest distress had I so much as a thought to pray to Him, or so much as to say, 'Lord, have mercy upon me!'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, pray do, and come while the Westons are with us.
-- "His name is Ferrars," said he, in a very audible whisper; "but pray do not tell it, for it's a great secret."
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