welfare是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 幸福, 福利, 社会保障，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin was confirmed in this generalization by observing that his brother did not take questions affecting the public welfare or the question of the immortality of the soul a bit more to heart than he did chess problems, or the ingenious construction of a new machine.
-- This is not a matter of myself individually; the question of the public welfare comes into it.
-- The meeting was opened by the governor, who made a speech to the nobles, urging them to elect the public functionaries, not from regard for persons, but for the service and welfare of their fatherland, and hoping that the honorable nobility of the Kashinsky province would, as at all former elections, hold their duty as sacred, and vindicate the exalted confidence of the monarch.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Econom-ic truth adds that the better private affairs are organised in society the more whole coats, so to say the firmer are its foundations and the better is the common welfare organised too.
-- In the first place, I want- ed to make your personal acquaintance, as I have already heard a great deal about you that is interesting and flatter- ing; secondly, I cherish the hope that you may not refuse to assist me in a matter directly concerning the welfare of your sister, Avdotya Romanovna.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mamma is blameless,' she went on, 'of having ever urged you forherself, and she is blameless in intention every way, I am sure,- butwhen I saw how many importunate claims were pressed upon youin my name; how you were traded on in my name; how generousyou were, and how Mr. Wickfield, who had your welfare verymuch at heart, resented it; the first sense of my exposure to themean suspicion that my tenderness was bought- and sold to you, ofall men, on earthfell upon me, like unmerited disgrace, in which Iforced you to participate.
-- Allow me to offer my inquirieswith reference to the physical welfare of Mrs. Copperfield in esse,and Mrs. Traddles in posse,- presuming, that is to say, that myfriend Mr. Traddles is not yet united to the object of his affections,for weal and for woe.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her tears fell abundantly but her grief was so truly art-less, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes and she listened to her and tried to con-sole her with all her heart and understanding really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelli-gence could do.
-- She wished him very well; but he gave her pain, and his welfare twenty miles off would administer most satis-faction.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
-- My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interest-ing to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness.
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：
-- It had already passed the Wellington, the Nelson, the Three Tuns, and the Sun, now it passed the Miners' Arms, then the Mechanics' Hall, then the new and almost gaudy Miners' Welfare and so, past a few new 'villas', out into the blackened road be-tween dark hedges and dark green fields, towards Stacks Gate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunates with wrongs, or with projects for the general welfare (and they had better have had wrongs at first, than have taken that bitter English recipe for certainly getting them), who in slow lapse of time and agony had passed safely through other public departments; who, according to rule, had been bullied in this, over-reached by that, and evaded by the other; got referred at last to the Circumlocution Office, and never reappeared in the light of day.
-- Surely the goods of this world, it occurred in an accidental way to Bishop to remark, could scarcely be directed into happier channels than when they accumulated under the magic touch of the wise and sagacious, who, while they knew the just value of riches (Bishop tried here to look as if he were rather poor himself), were aware of their importance, judiciously governed and rightly distributed, to the welfare of our brethren at large.
-- However, he returned to his own subject by first entreating her to see him oftener, and to remember that it was impossible to have a stronger interest in her welfare than he had, or to be more set upon promoting it than he was.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retail-ing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.
-- She respected, she esteemed, she was grateful to him, she felt a real interest in his welfare; and she only wanted to know how far she wished that welfare to depend upon herself, and how far it would be for the hap-piness of both that she should employ the power, which her fancy told her she still possessed, of bringing on her the re-newal of his addresses.
-- He had certainly formed such a plan, and without meaning that it should effect his endeavour to separate him from Miss Bennet, it is probable that it might add some-thing to his lively concern for the welfare of his friend.
-- To Mr. Bennet's acknowledgments he briefly replied, with as-surance of his eagerness to promote the welfare of any of his family; and concluded with entreaties that the subject might never be mentioned to him again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His attentive behaviour to herself and his sisters convinced her that their welfare was dear to him, and, for a long time, she firmly relied on the liberality of his intentions.
-- Elinor, though she felt really interested in the welfare of Colonel Brandon, could not bestow all the wonder on his going so suddenly away, which Mrs. Jennings was desirous of her feeling; for besides that the circumstance did not in her opinion justify such lasting amazement or variety of speculation, her wonder was otherwise disposed of.
-- His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible.
-- Indeed, brother, your anxiety for our welfare and prosperity carries you too far."
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