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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She silently assented, however, as in duty bound, to what the lady had said, and waited until she should speak again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff opened the perfumed letter and began to read: "In fulfillment of the duty I assumed of being your memory," the letter ran, "I call to your mind that you have been summoned to serve as juror to-day, the 28th of April, and that, therefore, you cannot accompany us and Kolosoff to the art exhibition, as you promised yesterday in your customary forgetfulness; 脙聽 moins que vous ne soyez dispos脙漏 脙聽 payer 脙聽 la cour d'assises les 300 rubles d'amende que vous vous refusez pour votre cheval, for your failure to appear in time.
-- "And now I must do my duty to the community conscientiously, as I always do, and think it one's duty to do.
-- Notwithstanding that they were all complaining that the jury duty was burdensome, and was taking them away from their business, they all seemed to be pleased with the consciousness of performing an important civic duty.
-- Then commenced the customary proceeding; calling of the jurymen, fining the absent ones, listening to the claims of exemption from jury duty and filling the panel from a number of reserves.
-- He then for the first time understood all the injustice of private ownership of land, and being one of those to whom any sacrifice in the name of moral duty was a lofty spiritual enjoyment, he forthwith divided the land he had inherited from his father among the peasants.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business, that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.
-- "All's well with him; no fear for a hand that's been shot down in his duty to captain and owner.
-- And then, as we all slunk back to our places, "Gray," he said, "I'll put your name in the log; you've stood by your duty like a seaman.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He even avoided the subject, which I one day thought it my duty to press upon him.
-- He might have thought it his duty to destroy a contrivance of this kind, as he would a gigantic narwhal.
-- But everyone had looked the danger in the face, and each was determined to do his duty to the last.
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：
-- And if they really are in trouble well, it is my duty to help them out of it."
-- "It's your duty to invite all the rats in the world to gnaw at your bones."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought, if I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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