gratis是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 免费的，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They spoke to me with great humanity, and said, 'they were sure the captain would carry me gratis to Lis-bon, whence I might return to my own country; that two of the seamen would go back to the ship, inform the captain of what they had seen, and receive his orders; in the mean time, unless I would give my solemn oath not to fly, they would secure me by force.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers' benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people's mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through with-ered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreat-ing and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the land is to be given gratis to the peasants, then why should some get good land, and others poor land?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Idiot though he was, the noble scion tried to cheat his professor, and they say he succeeded in getting him to continue the treatment gratis for two years, by concealing the death of his benefactor.
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