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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It did not soften Bert's mood to have the clerk remark that if Martin and Leora were of age, there was nothing he could do, and he didn't "care a damn who's talking--I'm running this Office!"
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：
-- He knew that the flat had been occupied by a German clerk in the civil service, and his family.
-- At the other persons in the room, includ-ing the tavern- keeper, the clerk looked as though he were used to their company, and weary of it, showing a shade of condescending contempt for them as persons of station and culture inferior to his own, with whom it would be useless for him to converse.
-- 'A fine clerk he is!'
-- The clerk looked at him, but without the slightest inter-est.
-- Yet the head clerk great-ly interested him, he kept hoping to see through him and guess something from his face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- More solitary than Robinson Crusoe, who had nobody to look athim, and see that he was solitary, I went into the booking-office,and, by invitation of the clerk on duty, passed behind the counter,and sat down on the scale at which they weighed the luggage.
-- We turned back,on my humbly insinuating that it might be useful to me hereafter;and he told the clerk that the carrier had instructions to call for it atnoon.
-- Peggotty was resolved that it should be quietlydone; and the clerk had given her away, and there had been nowitnesses of the ceremony.
-- If a clerk wanted his salary raised, Mr. Jorkins wouldn'tlisten to such a proposition.
-- The old clerk with the wig, whose namewas Mr. Tiffey, had been down on business several times in thecourse of his career, and had on each occasion penetrated to thebreakfast-parlour.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor old John, I have a great re-gard for him; he was clerk to my poor father twenty-seven years; and now, poor old man, he is bed-ridden, and very poorly with the rheumatic gout in his joints I must go and see him to-day; and so will Jane, I am sure, if she gets out at all.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately for her boy, his best friends died; and he got then a situation as second clerk at a lawyer's in Casterbridge.
-- The clergyman glided into the vestry, and the clerk vanished.
-- They walked together into the village until they came to a little lane behind the church, leading down to the cottage of Laban Tall, who had lately been installed as clerk of the parish, and was yet in mortal terror at church on Sundays when he heard his lone voice among certain hard words of the Psalms, whither no man ventured to follow him.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, perhaps he had been part of the machinery of justice, a clerk in the office to which the executioner sends in his accounts,--so much for providing black veils for parricides, so much for sawdust, so much for pulleys and cord for the knife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle, the clerk at church, was to dine with us; and Mr. Hubble the wheelwright and Mrs. Hubble; and Uncle Pumblechook (Joe's uncle, but Mrs. Joe appropriated him), who was a well-to-do cornchandler in the nearest town, and drove his own chaise-cart.
-- Our clerk at church."
-- Here, the daylight reappeared, and I found myself in a small paved courtyard, the opposite side of which was formed by a detached dwelling-house, that looked as if it had once belonged to the manager or head clerk of the extinct brewery.
-- With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back.
-- I began to say that I hoped I was not interrupting, when the clerk shoved this gentleman out with as little ceremony as I ever saw used, and tossing his fur cap out after him, left me alone.
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：
-- And I was a clerk in Butterley offices, thin, white-faced fellow fuming with all the things I read.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might, from his dress, have been either clerk or servant, and in fact had long been both.
-- Such was the homily with which he improved and pointed the occasion to the company in the Lodge before turning into the sallow yard again, and going with his own poor shabby dignity past the Collegian in the dressing-gown who had no coat, and past the Collegian in the sea-side slippers who had no shoes, and past the stout greengrocer Collegian in the corduroy knee-breeches who had no cares, and past the lean clerk Collegian in buttonless black who had no hopes, up his own poor shabby staircase to his own poor shabby room.
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