patron是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 赞助人; 资助人; 老顾客, 主顾，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But alas!the prince never suspected any such subtleties!For instance, he had no suspicion of the fact that the Epanchins, having in their mind so important a step as the marriage of their daughter, would never think of presuming to take it without having previously 'shown off' the proposed husband to the dignitary the recognized patron of the family.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I toldthem what a fine fellow Steerforth was, and what a patron of mine,and Peggotty said she would walk a score of miles to see him.
-- They did just what they liked withme; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, witha certainty I blush to think of, the more especially as, in myjuvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being soconfidential, and felt that I was quite the patron of my tworespectful entertainers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was not a very ceremonious way of rendering homage to a patron saint, but I believe Old Clem stood in that relation towards smiths.
-- I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.
-- Never even hinted, for instance, that your patron might have views as to your marriage ultimately?"
-- To state that my terrible patron carried this little black book about the world solely to swear people on in cases of emergency, would be to state what I never quite established; but this I can say, that I never knew him put it to any other use.
-- "I have found out who my patron is.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then commanded his general (who was an old ex-perienced leader, and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums 43beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced.
-- To this I added another petition, 'that for the sake of my patron the king of Luggnagg, his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed on my countrymen, of trampling upon the cru-cifix: because I had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes, without any intention of trading.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, to my patron I will be scrupulously true.
-- 'Bitzer,' said Mrs. Sparsit that afternoon, when her patron was gone on his journey, and the Bank was closing, 'present my compliments to young Mr. Thomas, and ask him if he would step up and partake of a lamb chop and walnut ketchup, with a glass of India ale?'
-- VERY DECIDEDThe indefatigable Mrs. Sparsit, with a violent cold upon her, her voice reduced to a whisper, and her stately frame so racked by continual sneezes that it seemed in danger of dismemberment, gave chase to her patron until she found him in the metropolis; and there, majestically sweeping in upon him at his hotel in St. James's Street, exploded the combustibles with which she was charged, and blew up.
-- Bitzer, still holding the paralysed culprit by the collar, stood in the Ring, blinking at his old patron through the darkness of the twilight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody got into the prison from whom he derived anything useful or good, and she could find no patron for him but her old friend and godfather.
-- The company might have had other engagements, or they might have felt their inferiority, but in any case they dispersed by degrees, and not being replaced by other company, left their new patron in possession of the Break of Day.
-- His patron took that opportunity of turning the key in the door, and then sat down upon his bed.
-- John Baptist, looking anything but reassured, sat down on the floor at the bedside, keeping his eyes upon his patron all the time.
-- He had a patron who in a certain sumptuous way an apologetic way, as if he constantly took an admiring audience to witness that he really could not help being more free with this old fellow than they might have expected, on account of his simplicity and poverty was mightily good to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With respect to Wickham, the travellers soon found that he was not held there in much estimation; for though the chief of his concerns with the son of his patron were im-perfectly understood, it was yet a well-known fact that, on his quitting Derbyshire, he had left many debts behind him, which Mr. Darcy afterwards discharged.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My patron lying at home longer than usual without fitting out his ship, which, as I heard, was for want of money, he used constantly, once or twice a week, sometimes oftener if the weather was fair, to take the ship's pinnace and go out into the road a- fishing; and as he always took me and young Maresco with him to row the boat, we made him very merry, and I proved very dexterous in catching fish; insomuch that sometimes he would send me with a Moor, one of his kinsmen, and the youth - the Maresco, as they called him - to catch a dish of fish for him.
-- I got all things ready as he had directed, and waited the next morning with the boat washed clean, her ancient and pendants out, and everything to accommodate his guests; when by-and-by my patron came on board alone, and told me his guests had put off going from some business that fell out, and ordered me, with the man and boy, as usual, to go out with the boat and catch them some fish, for that his friends were to sup at his house, and commanded that as soon as I got some fish I should bring it home to his house; all which I prepared to do.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a visit on Colonel Brandon's side of only three or four days, the two gentlemen quitted Barton together. They were to go immediately to Delaford, that Edward might have some personal knowledge of his future home, and assist his patron and friend in deciding on what improvements were needed to it; and from thence, after staying there a couple of nights, he was to proceed on his journey to town.
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