nurse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 护士， 保姆v. 护理， 看护，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：
-- He could not under-stand such a state of things, and was obliged to conclude that it was pride, the pride of an injured and imaginative woman, which had gone to such lengths that it preferred to sit and nurse its contempt and hatred in solitude rather than mount to heights of hitherto unattainable splendour.
-- 'Fancy him nursing me!Why, he needs a nurse himself!The general, there, will be his nurse now, you'll see.
-- 'You are always preaching about resting; you are a regular nurse to me, prince.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- 'Sir,' said he, 'you do ill to nurse this rancour; the people perish fighting round this our town; you would yourself chide one whom you saw shirking his part in the combat.
-- His good housekeeper answered, 'Hector, since you bid me tell you truly, she did not go to your sisters nor to your brothers' wives, nor yet to the temple of Minerva, where the other women are propitiating the awful goddess, but she is on the high wall of Ilius, for she had heard the Trojans were being hard pressed, and that the Achaeans were in great force: she went to the wall in frenzied haste, and the nurse went with her carrying the child.'
-- His daughter had married Hector, and now came to meet him with a nurse who carried his little child in her bo-som a mere babe.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All through April and May he coveted an opportunity of talking to the stranger, and at last, towards Whitsuntide, he could stand it no longer, but hit upon the subscription-list for a village nurse as an excuse.
-- "Went in," he gasped, "and began to demand a subscription for that Nurse Fund.
-- No wonder, wrapped up like that!I developed the nurse idea, and all the while kept my eyes open.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her bosom cannot nurse the chil-dren of a Huron; she will see it spit upon by Indians!'
-- Chapter 20 'Land of Albania!let me bend mine eyes On thee; thou rugged nurse of savage men!
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should have you to nurse me.
-- "It's quite obvious that it would be much easier to nurse him here," I said, "but of course it would be very inconvenient.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hannah had 'dished up' and astonishing breakfast for the traveler, finding it impossible to vent her excitement in any other way, and Meg and Jo fed their mother like du-tiful young storks, while they listened to her whispered account of Father's state, Mr. Brooke's promise to stay and nurse him, the delays which the storm occasioned on the homeward journey, and the unspeakable comfort Laurie's hopeful face had given her when she arrived, worn out with fatigue, anxiety, and cold.
-- I can feed and nurse and pet and scold them, and Mother will be my stand-by.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And for Radney, though in his infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket beach, to nurse at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long followed our austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buck-horn handled Bowie-knives.
-- Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excitable natures, Mrs. Sowerberry!Both the nurse and doctor said, that that mother of his made her way here, against difficulties and pain that would have killed any well-disposed woman, weeks before.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XII - A CAVE RETREATWHILE this was doing, I was not altogether careless of my other affairs; for I had a great concern upon me for my little herd of goats: they were not only a ready supply to me on ev-ery occasion, and began to be sufficient for me, without the expense of powder and shot, but also without the fatigue of hunting after the wild ones; and I was loath to lose the advantage of them, and to have them all to nurse up over again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I looked at it directly, and, 'Lord!my dear,' says I, 'it is nothing in the world, but the red gum ' and nurse said just the same.
-- Elinor's delight, as she saw what each felt in the meeting, was only checked by an apprehension of its robbing Marianne of farther sleep; but Mrs. Dashwood could be calm, could be even prudent, when the life of a child was at stake, and Marianne, satisfied in knowing her mother was near her, and conscious of being too weak for conversation, submitted readily to the silence and quiet prescribed by every nurse around her.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had Jim out of the chains in no time, and when Aunt Polly and Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally found out how good he helped the doctor nurse Tom, they made a heap of fuss over him, and fixed him up prime, and give him all he wanted to eat, and a good time, and nothing to do.
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