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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And I pray that he may break your neck: take him, and he damned, you beggarly interloper!and wheedle my father out of all he has: only afterwards show him what you are, imp of Satan.
-- I thought there was something wrong as he set down the light; and seizing the children each by an arm, whispered them to 'frame upstairs, and make little din they might pray alone that evening he had summut to do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray don't cry.'
-- 'Dear grandfather,' cried the girl with an energy which shone in her flushed face, trembling voice, and impassioned gesture, 'I am not a child in that I think, but even if I am, oh hear me pray that we may beg, or work in open roads or fields, to earn a scanty living, rather than live as we do now.'
-- Pray don't ask me why, pray don't be sorry, pray don't be vexed with me!I have nothing to do with it indeed!'
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