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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was evidently still afraid of Miss Betsey, for she sent hergrateful duty to her but timidly; and she was evidently afraid ofme, too, and entertained the probability of my running away againsoon; if I might judge from the repeated hints she threw out, thatthe coach-fare to Yarmouth was always to be had of her for theasking.
-- But in the absence of any such miraculousprovision, my desire was to apply myself to some pursuit thatwould not lie too heavily upon her purse; and to do my duty in it,whatever it might be.
-- Itwas written with a plain, unaffected, homely piety that I knew tobe genuine, and ended with 'my duty to my ever darling'-meaning myself.
-- Taking the management of Peggotty's affairs into my own hands,with no little pride, I proved the will, and came to a settlementwith the Legacy Duty Office, and took her to the Bank, and soongot everything into an orderly train.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it my duty as a friend, and older than yourself, to say thus much to you.
-- It is the greatest absurdity Actually snowing at this moment! The folly of not allowing peo-ple to be comfortable at home and the folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!If we were obliged to go out such an evening as this, by any call of duty or business, what a hardship we should deem it; and here are we, probably with rather thinner clothing than usual, setting forward voluntarily, without excuse, in defiance of 138 Emmathe voice of nature, which tells man, in every thing given to his view or his feelings, to stay at home himself, and keep all under shelter that he can; here are we setting forward to spend five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow.
-- Her second duty now, inferior only to her father's claims, was to promote Harriet's comfort, and endeavour to prove her own affec-tion in some better method than by match-making.
-- It is Frank Churchill's duty to pay this attention to his father.
-- She doubted whether she had not transgressed the duty of wom-an by woman, in betraying her suspicions of Jane Fairfax's feelings to Frank Churchill.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Boldwood women had been remote phenomena rather than necessary complements comets of such uncertain aspect, movement, and permanence, that whether their orbits were as geometrical, unchangeable, and as subject to laws as his own, or as absolutely erratic as they superficially appeared, he had not deemed it his duty to consider.
-- "Well, I hope to do my duty by it all," said Joseph Poorgrass, in a pleasant, masticating manner of anticipation.
-- Troy will take upon herself the duty of fetching an old servant of the family.... We ought not to put her in a waggon; we'll get a hearse."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had in some measure re-covered, I removed him to my own cabin and attended on him as much as my duty would permit.
-- No one could love a child more than I loved your brother' tears came into his eyes as he spoke 'but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?
-- It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.'
-- Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind.
-- They performed towards him every little of-fice of affection and duty with gentleness, and he rewarded them by his benevolent smiles.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew thatfrom childhood playmates grew beaux in later years, and the first duty of a girl was to get married.
-- Ellen had taught her that at the end of each day it was her duty to examine her conscience thoroughly,to admit her numerous faults and pray to God for forgiveness and strength never to repeat them.
-- She had immediately loathed nursing but she could not escape this duty because she was on both Mrs. Meade'sand Mrs. Merriwether's committees.
-- How could Miss Pittypat have so neglected her duty toyou?"
-- So the ladies felt in duty bound tostretch a point, especially in the case of so intrepid a blockader.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's something to have seen the object of one's love and duty for even so short a time.
-- I found Miss Sarah Pocket still on duty at the gate; I found Miss Havisham just as I had left her, and she spoke of Estella in the very same way, if not in the very same words.
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