assistance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 协作； 援助； 帮助，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room they were taken into was the one he chiefly occupied, and looking forwards; behind it was another with which it immediately communi-cated; the door between them was open, and Emma passed into it with the housekeeper to receive her assistance in the most comfortable manner.
-- The coming of her sister's family was so very near at hand, that first in anticipation, and then in reality, it became henceforth her prime object of interest; and dur-ing the ten days of their stay at Hartfield it was not to be expected she did not herself expect that any thing be-yond occasional, fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet she could not help feeling that the assistance he was rendering forbade a harsh repulse.
-- He went back to the barn to endeavour to obtain assistance for covering the ricks that very night.
-- She had been hoping that Oak might appear, whose assistance in such cases was always accepted as an inalienable right, but Oak was nowhere to be seen; and hence it was that she said, "Then if you will just look in first, to see if there's room, I think I will go in for a minute or two."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Practical assistance not one could give, this they all knew, and they had long since exhausted their stock of condolence over previous discussions of their grievances.
-- Vauquer was lighting a fire in the stove with some assistance from Vautrin, who kept humming to himself: "The same old story everywhere, A roving heart and a roving glance."
-- "And perhaps you will find Father Goriot there, who will take payment for the assistance he politely rendered."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any part of the habitation, I quitted the scene and sought for refuge in the woods.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will pass over the improprietyof your appearing publicly while in mourning, realizing your warm desire to be of assistance to the hospital.
-- ... No, Scarlett, the idea of assistance fromabroad is just a newspaper invention to keep up the morale of the South.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I selected the materials for a suit, with the assistance of Mr. Trabb's judgment, and re-entered the parlor to be measured.
-- He hoped that with intelligent assistance I should meet with little to discourage me, and should soon be able to dispense with any aid but his.
-- Assistance was sent for, and I held her until it came, as if I unreasonably fancied (I think I did) that, if I let her go, the fire would break out again and consume her.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am not the one who carried away the victory,' said he, 'but a strange knight who came to my assistance with his soldiers.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
-- I rested two or three minutes, and then gave the boat another shove, and so on, till the sea was no higher than my arm-pits; and now, the most laborious part being over, I took out my other cables, which were stowed in one of the ships, and fastened them first to the boat, and then to nine of the vessels which attended me; the wind being favourable, the seamen towed, and I shoved, until we arrived within forty yards of the shore; and, waiting till the tide was out, I got dry to the boat, and by the assistance of two thousand men, with ropes and engines, I made a shift to turn it on its bot-tom, and found it was but little damaged.
-- That, however, both their majesties would soon be made easy; for I had found a prodigious vessel on the shore, able to carry me on the sea, which he had given orders to fit up, with my 90 Gulliver's Travelsown assistance and direction; and he hoped, in a few weeks, both empires would be freed from so insupportable an en-cumbrance.'
-- While we were at dinner, I made bold to ask the names of several things in their language, and those noble persons, by the assistance of their flappers, delighted to give me an-swers, hoping to raise my admiration of their great abilities if I could be brought to converse with them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- MR. JAMES HARTHOUSEThe Gradgrind party wanted assistance in cutting the throats of the Graces.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And now," he said, after many expressions of gratitude and good will, "if you will te ll me what books you expected to find, perhaps I may be of some assistance to you."
-- I allowed myself to slide, so to speak, holding frantically on the double cord with one hand and with the other keeping myself off the rocks by the assistance of my iron-shod pole.
-- When I at last began to resign myself to the fact that no further aid was to be expected from man, and knowing that I was utterly powerless to do anything for my own salvation, I kneeled with earnest fervor and asked assistance from Heaven.
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