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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He left Dundalk, where he was starving, and came with his family to Australia, landed at Adelaide, where, refusing employment as a miner, he got engaged on a farm, and two months afterward commenced clearing ground on his own account.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then you leave my employment right away.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as they know the signs of the weather tolerably well, they don't give much employment to the dogs who have consequently died out rather though this house of entertainment is conveniently situated for themselves.
-- Assuredly he did look then, though he looked his politest, as if any real philanthropist could have desired no better employment than to lash a great stone to his neck, and drop him into the water flowing beyond the dark arched gateway in which he stood.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now if ever, occurred an eligible opportunity for 'going to the devil', as he once forcibly expressed it, for he had plenty of money and nothing to do, and Satan is proverbially fond of provid-ing employment for full and idle hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had, in its day, probably furnished employment to the inhabitants of the surrounding tenements.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction and a moment's consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it over as soon and as quietly as pos-sible, she sat down again and tried to conceal, by incessant employment the feelings which were divided between dis-tress and diversion.
-- Chapter 34 hen they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to exas-Wperate herself as much as possible against Mr. Darcy, chose for her employment the examination of all the letters which Jane had written to her since her being in Kent.
-- There was now employment for the whole party for though they could not all talk, they could all eat; and the beautiful pyramids of grapes, nectarines, and peaches soon collected them round the table.
-- Had Elizabeth been at leisure to be idle, she would have re-mained certain that all employment was impossible to one so wretched as herself; but she had her share of business as well as her aunt, and amongst the rest there were notes to be written to all their friends at Lambton, with false ex-cuses for their sudden departure.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hail no remedy but to go on: I had got into an employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the life I delighted in, and for which I forsook my father's house, and broke through all his good advice.
-- Within-doors, that is when it rained and I could not go out, I found employment in the follow-ing occupations - always observing, that all the while I was at work I diverted myself with talking to my parrot, and teaching him to speak; and I quickly taught him to know his own name, and at last to speak it out pretty loud, 'Poll,' which was the first word I ever heard spoken in the island by any mouth but my own.
-- This, therefore, was not my work, but an assistance to my work; for now, as I said, I had a great employment upon my hands, as follows: I had long studied to make, by some means or other, some earthen vessels, which, indeed, I wanted sorely, but knew not where to come at them.
-- I asked the captain if he was willing to venture with these hands on board the ship; but as for me and my man Friday, I did not think it was proper for us to stir, having seven men left behind; and it was employment enough for us to keep them asunder, and supply them with victuals.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not an employment to which they have been brought up.
-- "I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
-- She sometimes endeavoured for a few minutes to read; but the book was soon thrown aside, and she returned to the more interesting employment of walking backwards and forwards across the room, pausing for a moment whenever she came to the window, in hopes of distinguishing the long-expected rap.
-- The morning was fine and dry, and Marianne, in her plan of employment abroad, had not calculated for any change of weather during their stay at Cleveland.
-- Elinor honoured her for a plan which originated so nobly as this; though smiling to see the same eager fancy which had been leading her to the extreme of languid indolence and selfish repining, now at work in introducing excess into a scheme of such rational employment and virtuous self-control.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't know," said Carrie vaguely--a flash vision of the possibility of her not securing employment rising in her mind.
-- She walked bravely forward, led by an honest desire to find employment and delayed at every step by the interest of the unfolding scene, and a sense of helplessness amid so much evidence of power and force which she did not understand.
-- Sick at heart and in body, she turned to the west, the direction of Minnie's flat, which she had now fixed in mind, and began that wearisome, baffled retreat which the seeker for employment at nightfall too often makes.
-- Once the "World" came out with a flaring announcement about "80,000 people out of employment in New York this winter," which struck as a knife at his heart.
-- Chapter XXXVIII IN ELF LAND DISPORTING--THE GRIM WORLD WITHOUT When Carrie renewed her search, as she did the next day, going to the Casino, she found that in the opera chorus, as in other fields, employment is difficult to secure.
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