clerk是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 职员， 办事员； 店员，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：
-- But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
-- Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
-- The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded.
-- With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat.
-- The clerk smiled faintly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the ancient clerk deliberately folded and superscribed the note, Mr. Cruncher, after surveying him in silence until he came to the blotting-paper stage, remarked: 'I suppose they'll be trying Forgeries this morning?'
-- Jarvis Lorry, are you a clerk in Tellson's bank?'
-- There was a peculiarity in his manner of shaking hands, al-ways to be seen in any clerk at Tellson's who shook hands with a customer when the House pervaded the air.
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：
-- But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the read-er.
-- said the clerk breathlessly, and quite exhaust-ed he seated himself on a bank.
-- The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
-- It was a large oil-skin cap, which a sailor-boy of the quay had thrown over the struggling bird; a coarse hand sought its way care-fully in under the broad rim, and seized the clerk over the back and wings.
-- Instinctively the Clerk obeyed; with a few strokes of his wings he was out of the cage; but at the same moment the door, which was only ajar, and which led to the next room, began to creak, and supple and creeping came the large tomcat into the room, and began to pursue him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you know your little Vanya's with me, a clerk in the countinghouse at Pokrovskoe."
-- A nervous young man, a clerk in a law court, sitting opposite him, hated him for that look.
-- It appears that it's a happy couple, a government clerk and his lady.
-- The government clerk lodges a complaint, and I became a mediator, and such a mediator!...
-- The government clerk with the sausages begins to melt, but he, too, desires to express his sentiments, and as soon as ever he begins to express them, he begins to get hot and say nasty things, and again I'm obliged to trot out all my diplomatic talents.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The priests took their places in front of the judge, and the clerk proceeded to read in a loud voice a complaint of sacrilege against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who were accused of having violated a place held consecrated by the Brahmin religion.
-- Just as the clerk was calling the next case, he rose, and said, "I offer bail."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had tried on a dinner suit and come out for her approval, his long brown tie and soft- collared shirt somewhat rustic behind the low evening waistcoat, and when the clerk had gone to fetch collars, she wailed: "Darn it, Sandy, you're too grand for me.
-- Then, while the clerk sought ties, he did kiss her, and she sighed: "Oh, gee, you're one of these people that get ahead.
-- Once, it is clear, he was soda-fountain clerk in a Minnemagantic drug- store.
-- He had searched half a dozen towns by long-distance telephone, and got through to the county clerk just after the license had been granted.
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