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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The torrents provide them with water in the mountains, and the rivulets in the plains, which they improve by the addition of a few drops of rum, and each man carries a supply of this in a bullock's horn, called CHIFFLE.
-- After drying themselves, each in his own fashion, and hanging their ponchos on the tree, where they were swung to and fro in the breeze, they breakfasted, carefully however rationing out the provisions, for the morrow had to be thought of; the immense basin might not empty so soon as Glenarvan expected, and, anyway, the supply was very limited.
-- Nothing but the masts could supply suitable materials.
-- A limited supply of provisions was in the house, which the unhappy inmates scarcely touched.
-- There lay the chief's weapons, his guns loaded and capped, his spear, his splendid ax of green jade, with a supply of powder and ball for the happy hunting grounds.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this supply the Achaeans bought their wine, some with bronze, some with iron, some with hides, some with whole heifers, and some again with captives.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without assuming the supererogatory task of enter-ing into a discussion of the comparative merits of national courtesy, Duncan cheerfully assented to supply the place of the veteran in the approaching interview.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft and Herbert, after having taken the precaution of collecting an ample supply of lithodomes, with which they filled their pockets and handkerchiefs, regained the foot of the cliff.
-- From nothing they must supply themselves with everything.
-- Perhaps the trees of the neighboring forest would supply them with eatable fruit.
-- Supper, this evening, was of course composed of the inevitable lithodomes, of which Herbert and Neb picked up a plentiful supply on the beach.
-- While the sailor was preparing his hearth with stones which he put to this use, Neb and Herbert occupied themselves with getting a supply of fuel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daniel Quilp, who was not much affected by a bright morning save in so far as it spared him the trouble of carrying an umbrella, caused himself to be put ashore hard by the wharf, and proceeded thither through a narrow lane which, partaking of the amphibious character of its frequenters, had as much water as mud in its composition, and a very liberal supply of both.
-- CHAPTER 8Business disposed of, Mr Swiveller was inwardly reminded of its being nigh dinner-time, and to the intent that his health might not be endangered by longer abstinence, dispatched a message to the nearest eating-house requiring an immediate supply of boiled beef and greens for two.
-- If she told the truth (so thought the child) he would be treated as a madman; if she did not supply him with money, he would supply himself; supplying him, she fed the fire that burnt him up, and put him perhaps beyond recovery.
-- Disguising his secret joy in Mr Swiveller's defeat, Daniel Quilp adopted the surest means of soothing him, by ringing the bell, and ordering in a supply of rosy wine (that is to say, of its usual representative), which he put about with great alacrity, calling upon Mr Swiveller to pledge him in various toasts derisive of Cheggs, and eulogistic of the happiness of single men.
-- Nell accompanied him into the other little rooms, and over both the houses, in which he found various small comforts wanting, which he engaged to supply from a certain collection of odds and ends he had at home, and which must have been a very miscellaneous and extensive one, as it comprehended the most opposite articles imaginable.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He got downstairs next morning, to be sure, and had his meals as usual, though he ate little and had more, I am afraid, than his usual supply of rum, for he helped himself out of the bar, scowling and blowing through his nose, and no one dared to cross him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fresh air spreading over the interior of the Nautilus told me that we had come to the surface of the ocean to renew our supply of oxygen.
-- "You know as well as I do, Professor, that man can live under water, providing he carries with him a sufficient supply of breathable air.
-- cried Ned Land, who was carried away by the delights of the chase, "what excellent game, and stewed, too!What a supply for the Nautilus!Two!three!five down!And to think that we shall eat that flesh, and that the idiots on board shall not have a crumb!"
-- "No, sir; but it wants electricity to make it move, and the wherewithal to make the electricity sodium to feed the elements, coal from which to get the sodium, and a coal-mine to supply the coal.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I shouldn't care to be rich," he told her, as the dinner proceeded and the supply of food warmed up his sympathies; "not rich enough to spend my money this way."
-- He ran up a grocery bill of sixteen dollars with Oeslogge, laying in a supply of staple articles, so that they would not have to buy any of those things for some time to come.
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