charity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 赈济款、 物, 慈善团体, 博爱，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole Charity School, just opposite, would be in motion; all the new booths, with their not very courtier-like swarm of sea-men, would join them out of curiosity, and would greet him with a wild 'hurrah!'
-- 'He is very unfortunate; it would be a real work of charity to deliver him from the little life he has, and, when I think properly over the mat-ter, I am of opinion that it will be necessary to do away with him in all stillness!'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was astonished by the familiarity; he remembered that she had once gone to a charity ball in Zenith but he had not known that she was so intimate with the peerage.
-- VI None of the hectic activities of Senior year--neurology and pediatrics, practical work in obstetrics, taking of case-histories in the hospitals, attendance on operations, dressing wounds, learning not to look embarrassed when charity patients called one "Doctor"--was quite so important as the discussion of "What shall we do after graduation?"
-- He had interviewed senators; he had discovered graft in charity societies and even in prize-fights.
-- If an aggressive, wide-awake, live-wire, and go-ahead church or chamber of commerce or charity desires to improve itself, which means to get more money, it calls in those few energetic spirits who run any city, and proclaims a Week.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Since you expect me, Mr. Creakle, to justify myself,' saidSteerforth, 'and to say what I mean,- what I have to say is, that hismother lives on charity in an almshouse.'
-- 'I apprehend, if you come to that,' saidMr. Creakle, with his veins swelling again bigger than ever, 'thatyou've been in a wrong position altogether, and mis- took this fora charity school.
-- he was now alluding to Mrs. Micawber's letter, and we werestanding side by side comparing the two; 'it will be a charity towrite to her, at all events, and tell her that we will not fail to seeMr.
-- said Uriah, in the same low voice, andbreaking out into a clammy heat, which he wiped from hisforehead, with his long lean hand, 'to buy over my clerk, who isthe very scum of societyas you yourself were, Copperfield, youknow it, before any one had charity on you- to defame me with hislies?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The confession completely renewed her first shame and the sight of Harriet's tears made her think that she should never be in charity with herself again.
-- She had been particu-larly unwell, however, suffering from headache to a degree, which made her aunt declare, that had the ball taken place, she did not think Jane could have attended it; and it was charity to impute some of her unbecoming indifference to the languor of ill-health.
-- He had not left her long, by no means long enough for her to have the slightest inclination for thinking of any body else, when a letter was brought her from Randalls a very thick letter; she guessed what it must contain, and depre-cated the necessity of reading it. She was now in perfect charity with Frank Churchill; she wanted no explanations, she wanted only to have her thoughts to herself and as for understanding any thing he wrote, she was sure she was incapable of it. It must be waded through, however.
-- I dared not address her openly; my difficulties in the then state of Enscombe must be too well known to require definition; and I was fortunate enough to prevail, before we parted at Weymouth, and to induce the most up-right female mind in the creation to stoop in charity to a secret engagement. Had she refused, I should have gone mad. But you will be ready to say, what was your hope in doing this? What did you look forward to? To any thing, every thing to time, chance, circumstance, slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sick-ness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they were as fiercely proud in their poverty as the planters were in their wealth, and they would acceptnothing that smacked of charity from their rich neighbors.
-- They wouldhave considered it money well spent to rid the community of an eyesore, but he was well satisfied to remain and tosubsist miserably on the proceeds of a bale of cotton a year and the charity of his neighbors.
-- An O'Hara a poor relation, living on charity bread andsufferance!Oh, never that!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And Joe and Biddy both, as you have been to church to-day, and are in charity and love with all mankind, receive my humble thanks for all you have done for me, and all I have so ill repaid!And when I say that I am going away within the hour, for I am soon going abroad, and that I shall never rest until I have worked for the money with which you have kept me out of prison, and have sent it to you, don't think, dear Joe and Biddy, that if I could repay it a thousand times over, I suppose I could cancel a farthing of the debt I owe you, or that I would do so if I could!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dreams of childhood its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown, for then the least among them rises to the stature of a great Charity in the heart, suffering little children to come into the midst of it, and to keep with their pure hands a garden in the stony ways of this world, wherein it were better for all the children of Adam that they should oftener sun themselves, simple and trustful, and not worldly-wise what had she to do with these?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever I see a beadle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him.
-- His preoccupied face so clearly denoted the pursuit in which he was engaged, that every cripple at the post-houses, not blind, who shoved his little battered tin-box in at the carriage window for Charity in the name of Heaven, Charity in the name of our Lady, Charity in the name of all the Saints, knew as well what work he was at, as their countryman Le Brun could have known it himself, though he had made that English traveller the subject of a special physiognomical treatise.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hummel told him she was poor, and had tried to cure baby herself, but now it was too late, and she could only ask him to help the others and trust to charity for his pay.
-- The war is over, and Mr. March safely at home, busy with his books and the small parish which found in him a minister by nature as by grace, a quiet, studious man, rich in the wisdom that is better than learn-ing, the charity which calls all mankind 'brother', the piety that blossoms into character, making it august and lovely.
-- Lessons in patience were so sweetly taught her that she could not fail to learn them, charity for all, the lovely spirit that can forgive and truly forget unkindness, the loyalty to duty that makes the hardest easy, and the sin-cere faith that fears nothing, but trusts undoubtingly.
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