let是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 让， 允许， 听任； 设， 假设； 出租， 租给，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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- Come, let us make a bowl of punch, and we'll forget all that; d'ye see what charming weather 'tis now?'
-- Towards evening the mate and boatswain begged the master of our ship to let them cut away the fore-mast, which he was very unwilling to do; but the boatswain protesting to him that if he did not the ship would founder, he consented; and when they had cut away the fore-mast, the main-mast stood so loose, and shook the ship so much, they were obliged to cut that away also, and make a clear deck.
-- As this was a time when everybody had his own life to think of, nobody minded me, or what was become of me; but another man stepped up to the pump, and thrusting me aside with his foot, let me lie, thinking I had been dead; and it was a great while before I came to myself.
-- It was to no purpose for them or us, after we were in the boat, to think of reaching their own ship; so all agreed to let her drive, and only to pull her in towards shore as much as we could; and our master prom-ised them, that if the boat was staved upon shore, he would make it good to their master: so partly rowing and partly driving, our boat went away to the northward, sloping to-wards the shore almost as far as Winterton Ness.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, then, LET something be done for them; but THAT something need not be three thousand pounds.
-- Men are very safe with us, let them be ever so rich.
-- "Oh!pray, Miss Margaret, let us know all about it," said Mrs. Jennings.
-- Come, come, this won't do, Colonel; so let us hear the truth of it."
-- "If you would but let us know what your business is," said Mrs. Jennings, "we might see whether it could be put off or not."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lest this order of individual should permanently pass, let me put down some of the most striking characteristics of his most successful manner and method.
-- Let him meet with a young woman once and he would approach her with an air of kindly familiarity, not unmixed with pleading, which would result in most cases in a tolerant acceptance.
-- Before following her in her round of seeking, let us look at the sphere in which her future was to lie.
-- After observing a few times, the girl let her work at it alone.
-- "Aw, let me go," she exclaimed angrily.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
-- Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me.
-- 'Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
-- I went out in the woods and turned it over in my mind a long time, but I couldn't see no advantage about it except for the other peo- ple; so at last I reckoned I wouldn't worry about it any more, but just let it go.
-- You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it you'll spend it.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In despair he let it alone.
-- As for me, let me tell you, I hate to study!It's much more fun, I think, to chase after butterflies, climb trees, and steal birds' nests."
-- But Mastro Geppetto, in order to punish him for his mischief, let him alone the whole morning.
-- The lame Fox leaned on the Cat, and the blind Cat let the Fox lead him along.
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