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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he added, addressing the clerk at his side, 'is it sacrilege or not, by law?'
-- 'Oh, but I do know, as it happens,' said the clerk in an aggravating manner.
-- It was reached by a clean light staircase, and consisted of seven rooms, a nice enough lodg-ing, and one would have thought a little too good for a clerk on two thousand roubles a year.
-- The clerk knew very well that this 'PERHAPS' meant 'CERTAINLY,' but as he thought he could make more out of a tenant like the prince, he felt justified in speaking vaguely about the present inhabitant's intentions.
-- The clerk stood looking after his guest, struck by his sud-den absent-mindedness.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Petersen Sahib came in on his clever she-elephant Pud-mini; he had been paying off other camps among the hills, for the season was coming to an end, and there was a native clerk sitting at a table under a tree, to pay the drivers their wages.
-- Big Toomai went up to the clerk with Little Toomai be-hind him, and Machua Appa, the head tracker, said in an undertone to a friend of his, 'There goes one piece of good elephant stuff at least.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Am I going to keep a clerk for my own pleasure, or because of my own wish, you provoking rascal!'
-- 'What do you taunt me about going to keep a clerk for?'
-- 'What do you taunt me, after three hours' talk last night, with going to keep a clerk for?'
-- Whether should I take a clerk that he recommends, and says, "this is the man for you," or lose all this, eh?'
-- Sampson Brass, who was at heart in great fear of his sister, sulkily bent over his writing again, and listened as she said:'If I determined that the clerk ought not to come, of course he wouldn't be allowed to come.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here's a Clerk at Durham for you, John, and an old seafaring gentleman at Dunstable for you, Mr Rugg.
-- How they had employed John Chivery as their sole clerk and agent, seeing to whom he was devoted.
-- And there, Mr Pancks, (destined to be chief clerk to Doyce and Clennam, and afterwards partner in the house), sinking the Incendiary in the peaceful friend, looked in at the door to see it done, with Flora gallantly supported on one arm and Maggy on the other, and a back-ground of John Chivery and father and other turnkeys who had run round for the moment, deserting the parent Marshalsea for its happy child.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, if you stand there, refusing to give evidence, I'll punish you for disrespect to the bench; I will, by--' By what, or by whom, nobody knows, for the clerk and jailor coughed very loud, just at the right moment; and the former dropped a heavy book upon the floor, thus preventing the word from being heard--accidently, of course.
-- inquired the clerk in a low voice.
-- As the old lady had been so kind to him in his illness, he endeavoured to think no more of the subject just then; so he listened attentively to a great many stories she told him, about an amiable and handsome daughter of hers, who was married to an amiable and handsome man, and lived in the country; and about a son, who was clerk to a merchant in the West Indies; and who was, also, such a good young man, and wrote such dutiful letters home four times a-year, that it brought the tears into her eyes to talk about them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade.
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.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there's Mr. Rose at Exeter, a prodigious smart young man, quite a beau, clerk to Mr. Simpson, you know, and yet if you do but meet him of a morning, he is not fit to be seen. I suppose your brother was quite a beau, Miss Dashwood, before he married, as he was so rich?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the clerk's office Hurstwood swung the register about while the clerk came forward.
-- Accordingly, when she reached that theatre she applied to the clerk at the box office.
-- All you have to do is to pay that sum to the clerk at the end of the week or month, just as you wish, and he will give you a receipt for what the rooms would cost if charged for at our regular rates."
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