employment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 雇用, 使用, 职业，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thrown out of his honourable employment in England, through too much unsuccessful hard swearing there not because he was not wanted there; our English reasons for vaunting our superiority to secrecy and spies are of very modern date he knew that he had crossed the Channel, and accepted service in France: first, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among his own countrymen there: gradually, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among the natives.
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：
-- 'Can I have employment at the palace?'
-- As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of steam; we have experienced it either on rail-roads, or in boats when crossing the sea; but such a flight is like the travelling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with which light moves.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They crowd the smoking cars at night; they sit silent on benches in filthy stations; they know all the land yet of it they know nothing, because in a hundred cities they see only the employment agencies, the all-night lunches, the blind-pigs, the scabrous lodging-houses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quinion suggests that it gives employment to some otherboys, and that he sees no reason why it shouldn't, on the sameterms, give employment to you.'
-- The local influence ofmy family was quite unavailing to obtain any employment in thatdepartment, for a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities.
-- If any one had told me, then, that all this was a brilliant game,played for the excitement of the moment, for the employment ofhigh spirits, in the thoughtless love of superiority, in a merewasteful careless course of winning what was worthless to him,and next minute thrown away: I say, if any one had told me such alie that night, I wonder in what manner of receiving it myindignation would have found a vent!
-- From this employment she suddenly desisted, and said toSteerforth, much to my confusion'Who's your friend?'
-- 'And I shall be twenty times happier, sir,' said I, with a little- Ihope innocentflattery, 'if my employment is to be on theDictionary.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Tay-lor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?
-- It was a concern which brought just employment enough.
-- For-tune I do not want; employment I do not want; consequence I do not want: I believe few married women are half as much mistress of their husband's house as I am of Hartfield; and never, never could I expect to be so truly beloved and im-portant; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.'
-- 'If I know myself, Harriet, mine is an active, busy mind, with a great many independent resources; and I do not per-ceive why I should be more in want of employment at forty or fifty than one-and-twenty.
-- Mr. Weston entered into the idea with thorough enjoyment, and Mrs. Weston most will-ingly undertook to play as long as they could wish to dance; and the interesting employment had followed, of reckoning up exactly who there would be, and portioning out the in-dispensable division of space to every couple.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Gabriel, kindling with the idea of getting employment that seemed to strike him now.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the mean-time he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a man born blind, who had several apprentices in his own condition: their employment was to mix colours 225for painters, which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling.
-- After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds.
-- His majesty having often pressed me to accept some employment in his court, and finding me absolutely deter-272 Gulliver's Travelsmined to return to my native country, was pleased to give me his license to depart; and honoured me with a letter of recommendation, under his own hand, to the Emperor of Japan.
-- I left my poor wife big with child, and accepted an advantageous offer made me to be captain of the Adventurer, a stout merchantman of 350 tons: for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon's employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occasion, I took a skilful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship.
-- He had heard, indeed, some curious Houyhnhnms observe, that in most herds there was a sort of ruling Yahoo (as among us there is generally some leading or principal stag in a park), who was always more deformed in body, and mischievous in disposition, than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favourite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master's feet and posteri-ors, and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass's flesh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mrs Clennam has been of great service to me; I don't know what we should have done without the employment she has given me; I am afraid it may not be a good return to become secret with her; I can say no more to-night, sir.
-- That from the son set forth that Mr Clennam would, he knew, be gratified to hear that he had at length obtained permanent employment of a highly satisfactory nature, accompanied with every prospect of complete success in life; but that the temporary inability of his employer to pay him his arrears of salary to that date (in which condition said employer had appealed to that generous forbearance in which he trusted he should never be wanting towards a fellow-creature), combined with the fraudulent conduct of a false friend and the present high price of provisions, had reduced him to the verge of ruin, unless he could by a quarter before six that evening raise the sum of eight pounds.
-- 'I think, Flora,' he said, 'that the employment you can give Little Dorrit, and the kindness you can show her ''Yes and I will,' said Flora, quickly.
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