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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then pray tell me, Tom, how it is that the DUNCAN is cruising at this moment on the coast of New Zealand?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Pray take a seat, Sir Henry.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How often did I sing him to sleep when I was half dead with hunger!In short, I was more than a father to him, and now now he jeers at me!Even if I did cross myself, and pray for the repose of the soul of the Comtesse du Barry, what does it matter?
-- You believe nothing, atheist!And your story was not even correct!If you had listened to what I was saying, you would have heard that I did not only pray for the Comtesse du Bar-ry.
-- 'And pray what IS my position, madame?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take your home aim then, and pray to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer; vow that when you get home to your strong city of Zelea you will offer a hecatomb of firstling lambs in his honour.'
-- Do not, I pray you, press so furiously forward, or you may get killed.'
-- And Hector shouted to the Tro-jans, 'Trojans and allies, be men, my friends, and fight with might and main, while I go to Ilius and tell the old men of our council and our wives to pray to the gods and vow heca-tombs in their honour.'
-- I dare not make a drink-offering to Jove with unwashed hands; one who is bespattered with blood and filth may not pray to the son of Saturn.
-- I will put on my armour; meanwhile, pray to King Jove in silence among yourselves that the Tro-jans may not hear you or aloud if you will, for we fear no man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is the puma,' I said, 'still alive, but so cut and mutilated as I pray I may never see living flesh again.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray you, if it be, give it to me, for I am slow of study.
-- Chapter 28 'Brief, I pray for you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- returned the sailor; "but if by chance you happen to come across a tobacco- plant, my boy, pray don't scorn that!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mrs Quilp, pray ask the ladies to stop to supper, and have a couple of lobsters and something light and palatable.'
-- cried Nelly, clasping her hand, 'poor Kit who came with me!Oh, pray stop them, Mr Quilp!'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
-- Pray call again as soon as possible, and explain the reason of my having expected this in vain.
-- Pray, pray let me hear it."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it.
-- I says to myself, if a body can get anything they pray for, why don't Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork?
-- Then one of them got on one side of the coffin, and t'other on t'other side, and they kneeled down and rested their foreheads on the coffin, and let on to pray all to them-selves.
-- and I'll think of you a many and a many a time, and I'll PRAY for you, too!'
-- Pray for me!I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size.
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