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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed to beall old nooks and corners; and in every nook and corner there wassome queer little table, or cupboard, or bookcase, or seat, orsomething or other, that made me think there was not such anothergood corner in the room, until I looked at the next one, and foundit equal to it, if not better.
-- It reminded me ofour old acquaintance; it seemed the natural sequel of it; it showedme that he was unchanged; it relieved me of any uneasiness Imight have felt, in comparing my merits with his, and measuringmy claims upon his friendship by an equal standard; above all, itwas a familiar, unrestrained, affectionate demeanour that he usedtowards no one else.
-- If we failed to hold our own, because that equal footat all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object inthis world would slip from us.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unre-serve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recol-lection.
-- The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of recon-ciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.
-- She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her compan-ionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little dif-ficulties and privations.
-- The happiness of Miss Smith was quite equal to her intentions.
-- exclaimed Mr. Knightley loudly and warmly; and with calmer asperity, added, a few mo-ments afterwards, 'No, he is not her equal indeed, for he is as much her superior in sense as in situation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Thank you very much," said Oak, in the modest tone good manners demanded, thinking, however, that he would never let Bathsheba see him playing the flute; in this resolve showing a discretion equal to that related to its sagacious inventress, the divine Minerva herself.
-- Liddy, the maltster's great-granddaughter, was about Bathsheba's equal in age, and her face was a prominent advertisement of the light-hearted English country girl.
-- The full power of the clear heaven was not equal to that of a cloudy sky at noon, when Boldwood arose and dressed himself.
-- said Henery, with a deprecating peacefulness equal to anything of the kind in Christianity.
-- They consisted in about equal proportions of gnarled and flexuous forms, the former being the men, the latter the women, who wore tilt bonnets covered with nankeen, which hung in a curtain upon their shoulders.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, 61and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.
-- The tor-tures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.
-- 'Begone!I do break my promise; never will I create an-other like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness.'
-- You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She should go up and sit with Melanie and distract hermind from her coming ordeal but she did not feel equal to it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You know, old chap," said Joe, looking at me, and not at Mrs. Joe, with his bite still in his cheek, "I Bolted, myself, when I was your age--frequent--and as a boy I've been among a many Bolters; but I never see your Bolting equal yet, Pip, and it's a mercy you ain't Bolted dead."
-- said the sergeant, addressing himself to Mr. Pumblechook, as to a man whose appreciative powers justified the inference that he was equal to the time.
-- "Why, here's a J," said Joe, "and a O equal to anythink!Here's a J and a O, Pip, and a J-O, Joe."
-- "Though mind you, Pip," said Joe, with a judicial touch or two of the poker on the top bar, "rendering unto all their doo, and maintaining equal justice betwixt man and man, my father were that good in his hart, don't you see?"
-- "However," said Joe, rising to replenish the fire; "here's the Dutch-clock a working himself up to being equal to strike Eight of 'em, and she's not come home yet!I hope Uncle Pumblechook's mare mayn't have set a forefoot on a piece o' ice, and gone down."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son said: 'Most gracious father, I will show her to you in the form of a beautiful flower,' and he thrust his hand into his pocket and brought forth the pink, and placed it on the royal table, and it was so beautiful that the king had never seen one to equal it.
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