amusement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 娱乐， 消遣， 乐趣，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays; gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tomb-stones; or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent mill-pond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his supe-rior elegance and address.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There seemed a certain impatient fury in him, all the while, and at the same time a great amusement in everything, and a final tolerance.
-- He stood smiling in frustration and amusement and irritation and admiration and love.
-- He wanted to see and to know, in a curious objective fashion, as if it were an amusement to him.
-- Gerald was quite calm and easy, a spark of satiric amusement in his eye.
-- Gerald Crich sat erect, with a glistening look of amusement on his face.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quick, attentive, he acquitted himself perfectly, changing the plates, bringing dishes, pouring out water, all with a gravity which gave intense amusement to the settlers, and which enraptured Pencroft.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bowed and returned the pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn.
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