equal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /n. /vt. 相等的, 相等于, 相等匹敌，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume them-selves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monseigneur (often a most worthy individual gentle-man) was a national blessing, gave a chivalrous tone to things, was a polite example of luxurious and shining fife, 322 A tale of two citiesand a great deal more to equal purpose; nevertheless, Mon-seigneur as a class had, somehow or other, brought things to this.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun shone, the birds sang, and the chil-dren sang too, and each held the other by the hand; for as yet they had none of them any high office, and were all of equal rank in the eye of God.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On her head there was such a superstructure of soft, golden hair--her own and false mixed--that her head was equal in size to the elegantly rounded bust, of which so much was exposed in front.
-- The position was one of misery for all three; and not one of them would have been equal to enduring this position for a single day, if it had not been for the expectation that it would change, that it was merely a temporary painful ordeal which would pass over.
-- Darya Alexandrovna, in her best gray silk gown, obviously worried about the children, who were to have their dinner by themselves in the nursery, and by her husband's absence, was not equal to the task of making the party mix without him.
-- Kitty felt a peculiar pleasure in being able now to talk to her mother on equal terms about those questions of such paramount interest in a woman's life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had gone nearly twenty-five miles that day, and an equal distance still separated them from the station of Allahabad.
-- The boat scudded thus northward during the whole day, borne on by monstrous waves, preserving always, fortunately, a speed equal to theirs.
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT UNDERGOES, AT A SPEED OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR,A COURSE OF MORMON HISTORYDuring the night of the 5th of December, the train ran south-easterly for about fifty miles; then rose an equal distance in a north-easterly direction, towards the Great Salt Lake.
-- Provided with more sails than a cutter, and with the wind behind them, they slip over the surface of the prairies with a speed equal if not superior to that of the express trains.
-- The Pereire, of the French Transatlantic Company, whose admirable steamers are equal to any in speed and comfort, did not leave until the 14th; the Hamburg boats did not go directly to Liverpool or London, but to Havre; and the additional trip from Havre to Southampton would render Phileas Fogg's last efforts of no avail.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In regard to salary--permit me to be business-like and perhaps blunt, as my train leaves in one hour--I don't suppose we could equal the doubtless large emolument which the Hunziker people are able to pay you, but we can go to ten thousand dollars a year--" "Oh, my God, do not talk of the money!I shall be wit' you in New York one week from today.
-- More terrible than their rage is the people's laughter, and if it rends tyrants, with equal zest it pursues the saint and wise man and befouls their treasure.
-- In Leora she perceived an interested casualness equal to her own.
-- But can't you understand--I'm not just a climber--I want us both to be equal to anything we run into.
-- He is equal opposed to the capitalists who t'ink their silly money- grabbing is a system, and to liberals who t'ink man is not a fighting animal; he takes both the American booster and the European aristocrat, and he ignores all their blithering.
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：
-- And she was left at his death with three children in a wild and remote district where I happened to be at the time; and she was left in such hopeless poverty that, although I have seen many ups and downs of all sort, I don't feel equal to describing it even.
-- And we have not spoken of our plans for another reason, that is, because I particularly wanted you to feel on an equal footing when you first meet him.
-- To be sure it's a matter of business, a partnership for mutual benefit, with equal shares and expenses; food and drink provided, but pay for your tobacco.
-- It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of will power attacked a man like a disease, devel-oped gradually and reached its highest point just before the perpetration of the crime, continued with equal violence at the moment of the crime and for longer or shorter time after, according to the individual case, and then passed off like any other disease.
-- Each class has an equal right to exist.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I didn't think MissCreakle equal to little Em'ly in point of beauty, and I didn't loveher (I didn't dare); but I thought her a young lady of extraordinaryattractions, and in point of gentility not to be surpassed.
-- Shetook so kindly to me, that, in the course of a few weeks, sheshortened my adopted name of Trotwood into Trot; and evenencouraged me to hope, that if I went on as I had begun, I mighttake equal rank in her affections with my sister Betsey Trotwood.
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