duty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 义务， 责任； 职务； 税，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：
-- 'If you hear in my voice I don't know that it is so, but I hope it is if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it, weep for it!If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a Home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!'
-- 'Miss Manette, if the prisoner does not perfectly under-stand that you give the evidence which it is your duty to give which you must give and which you cannot escape from giving with great unwillingness, he is the only per-son present in that condition.
-- I know, Doctor Manette how can I fail to know that, mingled with the affection and duty of a daughter who has become a woman, there is, in her heart, towards you, all the love and reliance of infancy itself.
-- 'You shall not get off in that way,' rejoined Stryver, shoul-dering the rejoinder at him; 'no, Sydney, it's my duty to tell you and I tell you to your face to do you good that you are a devilish ill-conditioned fellow in that sort of society.
-- With his straw in his mouth, Mr. Cruncher sat watching the two streams, like the heathen rustic who has for sev-eral centuries been on duty watching one stream saving that Jerry had no expectation of their ever running dry.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard Agafea Mihalovna talking of how Prohor had forgotten his duty to God, and with the money Levin had given him to buy a horse, had been drinking without stopping, and had beaten his wife till he'd half killed her.
-- She knew, too, that in spite of his official duties, which swallowed up almost the whole of his time, he considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world.
-- She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy, and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but, in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it, Alexey Alexandrovitch never passed over anything in the world of art, but made it his duty to read everything.
-- My duty is clearly defined.
-- As the head of the family, I am a person bound in duty to guide her, and consequently, in part the person responsible; I am bound to point out the danger I perceive, to warn her, even to use my authority.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thought of a duty unfulfilled shook off his torpor, and he hurried from the abode of drunkenness.
-- As for Captain Speedy, he continued to howl and growl in his cabin; and Passepartout, whose duty it was to carry him his meals, courageous as he was, took the greatest precautions.
-- Fix, like all the world, had been mistaken in Phileas Fogg, and had only done his duty in tracking and arresting him; while he, Passepartout.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am Dr. Arrowsmith," he snorted, "and I've been informed that even probationers learn that the first duty of a nurse is to stand when addressing doctors!I wish to find Ward D, to take a strain of--IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW!--a very dangerous microbe, and if you will kindly direct me--" "Oh, gee, I've been getting fresh again.
-- But we have our duty toward the stockholders of the Dawson Hunziker Company to make money for them.
-- And we intend to go on treating you well!Why, man, you'll be rich; you'll be one of us!I don't like to make any demands, but on this point it's my duty to insist, and I shall expect you at the earliest possible moment to start manufacturing--" Gottlieb was sixty-two.
-- One time I kind of figured on becoming an X-ray specialist--place in New York where you can take the whole course in eight weeks--and maybe settling in Butte or Sioux Falls, but I figured that even if I got to making eight- ten thousand a year, 'twouldn't hardly mean more than three thousand does here and so-- And a fellow has to consider his duty to his old patients."
-- He felt the duty of making love.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, there is no great love either on his side, or on hers, but Dounia is a clev-er girl and has the heart of an angel, and will make it her duty to make her husband happy who on his side will make her happiness his care.
-- Let my life go, if only my dear ones may be happy!More than that, we become casuists, we learn to be Jesuitical and for a time maybe we can soothe ourselves, we can persuade ourselves that it is one's duty for a good object.
-- They talk of duty, conscience I don't want to say anything against duty and conscience; but the point is, what do we mean by them.
-- 'How can you, a doctor, whose duty it is to study man and who has more opportunity than anyone else for studying human nature how can you fail to see the character of the man in the whole story?
-- I am not worthy to love you, but to do homage to you is the duty of every man who is not a perfect beast!And I've done homage芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Barkis is agood plain creatur',' said Peggotty, 'and if I tried to do my duty byhim, I think it would be my fault if I wasn't- if I wasn't prettycomfortable,' said Peggotty, laughing heartily.
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