supply是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (with， to) 供给， 供应， 补足n. 供应， 供应量，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper.
-- In humoring my mistake, Miss Havisham, you punished--practised on--perhaps you will supply whatever term expresses your intention, without offence--your self-seeking relations?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What course was taken to supply that assembly, when any noble family became extinct?
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
-- He only desired me to observe a ruined build-ing, upon the side of a mountain about three miles distant, of which he gave me this account: 'That he had a very con-venient mill within half a mile of his house, turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family, as well as a great number of his tenants; that about seven years ago, a club of those projectors came to him with pro-posals to destroy this mill, and build another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge whereof a long canal must be cut, for a repository of water, to be conveyed up by 222 Gulliver's Travelspipes and engines to supply the mill, because the wind and air upon a height agitated the water, and thereby made it fitter for motion, and because the water, descending down a declivity, would turn the mill with half the current of a river whose course is more upon a level.'
-- He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me 'to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucum-224 Gulliver's Travelsbers.'
-- But for short conversations, a man may carry imple-ments in his pockets, and under his arms, enough to supply him; and in his house, he cannot be at a loss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I only hope, ma'am,' pursued Bitzer, 'that his friend and relation may not supply him with the means of carrying on.
-- Something to be worked so much and paid so much, and there ended; something to be infallibly settled by laws of supply and demand; something that blundered against those laws, and floundered into difficulty; something that was a little pinched when wheat was dear, and over-ate itself when wheat was cheap; something that increased at such a rate of percentage, and yielded such another percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism; something wholesale, of which vast fortunes were made; something that occasionally rose like a sea, and did some harm and waste (chiefly to itself), and fell again; this she knew the Coketown Hands to be.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now most persons in this category supply themselves with information, as peddlers do with goods, for the benefit of others, and lay up stores in order to diffuse them abroad for the benefit of society in general.
-- We had, however, an ample supply of gourds, and my uncle counted on finding water, and enough to fill them, as soon as we commenced our downward journey.
-- My uncle had also been careful to lay in a goodly supply of tobacco, several flasks of very fine gunpowder, boxes of tinder, besides a large belt crammed full of notes and gold.
-- Our supply would certainly last not more than three days.
-- As I had expected from the first, our supply of water gave completely out on our first day's march.
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：
-- 'Connie,' said Clifford, 'did you know there was a rumour that you are going to supply Wragby with a son and heir?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He got half-a-dozen fellows into a Barn, and a good supply of Rats, and timed the Dog.
-- After a little consideration, he resolved to supply Mr Pancks with such leading information as it was in his power to impart him; well knowing that Mr Pancks, if he failed in his present research, was pretty sure to find other means of getting it.
-- You supply manner, and I supply money.'
-- 'Will you allow me,' said Arthur, laying his purse on the table, 'to supply any present contingencies, Mr Dorrit?
-- It also shone on the courier of the Dorrit family, making tea for his party from a supply he had brought up with him, together with several other small stores which were chiefly laid in for the use of the strong body of inconvenience.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I also doubt if any young matron ever began life with so rich a supply of dusters, holders, and piece bags, for Beth made enough to last till the silver wedding came round, and invented three different kinds of dishcloths for the express service of the bridal china.
-- Mrs. Carrol, Flor-ence's mamma, was ordered to buy, have made, and marked a generous supply of house and table linen, and send it as her present, all of which was faithfully done, but the secret leaked out, and was greatly enjoyed by the family, for Aunt March tried to look utterly unconscious, and insisted that she could give nothing but the old-fashioned pearls long promised to the first bride.
-- Jo enjoyed a taste of this satisfaction, and ceased to envy richer girls, taking great comfort in the knowledge that she could supply her own wants, and need ask no one for a penny.
-- I'll supply the money.
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