complain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (about， of) 抱怨； 申诉，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You have a great deal to complain of, haven't you, Stepan Arkadyevitch?"
-- So it had to be, and I cannot complain of anyone or anything.
-- "If I complain of anything it's only that I'm not caught enough, to tell the truth.
-- Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it," he said, in the word we linking himself with Anna.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was human enough, when he meditated upon the exaltation of doctors bold through ignorance, of inventors who were but tinkers magnified, to be irritated by his lack of fame in America, even in Mohalis, and to complain not too nobly.
-- He was to placate voluble voters who came in to complain of everything from the smell of sewer- gas to the midnight beer parties of neighbors; he was to dictate office correspondence to the touchy stenographer, who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest--or at least to jaw at--all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a learned implacable eye on epidemics from Vladivostok to Patagonia, and to prevent (by methods not very clearly outlined) their coming in to slay the yeomanry and even halt the business activities of Nautilus.
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：
-- 'Praskovya Pavlovna means to complain to the police about you,' she said.
-- For you could not complain afterwards.
-- She did not, for instance, complain of getting no letters from him, though in previous years she had only lived on the hope of letters from her beloved Rodya.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of thisproperty; and if any- body else should be in the present enjoymentof it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
-- sitting in the same attitudehours upon hours, afraid to move an arm or a leg lest MissMurdstone should complain (as she did on the least pretence) ofmy restlessness.
-- At all timesI lounged about the house and neighbourhood quite disregarded,except that they were jealous of my making any friends: thinking,perhaps, that if I did, I might complain to some one.
-- I wassufficiently ill at ease, Heaven knows; but it was not in my natureto complain much at that time of my life, so I said I was very well,and hoped he was.
-- 'It ain't that I complain of my line of business,'said Mr. Omer.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet did not consider herself as having any thing to complain of.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To an outsider there was not much to complain of in this remark; but to Oak, who knew Bathsheba to be well aware that she herself was the cause of the poor ewe's wound, because she had wounded the ewe's shearer in a still more vital part, it had a sting which the abiding sense of his inferiority to both herself and Boldwood was not calculated to heal.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may nev-er know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you complain of me I shall get into trouble with my sister, so I would do it if I could; but it's so new here, and so strange, and so fine,--and melancholy--."
-- I thought it a little too much that he should complain of being cut short in his flower after all, as if he had not been running to seed, leaf after leaf, ever since his course began.
-- "I don't complain of none, dear boy."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do, in the next place, complain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my own opinion, to suffer my travels to be published.
-- To avoid which cen-sure I fear I have run too much into the other extreme; and that if this treatise should happen to be translated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that kingdom,) and transmitted thither, the king and his people would have reason to complain that I had done them an in-jury, by a false and diminutive representation.
-- I cannot forget, that an intimate friend of mine in Lilliput, took the freedom in a warm day, when I had used a good deal of exercise, to complain of a strong smell about me, although I am as little faulty that way, as most of my sex: but I suppose his faculty of smelling was as nice with regard to me, as mine was to that of this people.
-- Thus, hope and expectation would be kept alive; none would complain of broken promises, but impute their disappointments wholly to fortune, whose shoulders are broader and stronger than those of a ministry.
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