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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't complain of you.
-- She used to complain to me that she had nothing to fall back upon, that girls usually fall back upon; and I don't see how she is to have got over that since.
-- 'Now, what do you complain of?'
-- 'What,' repeated Mr. Bounderby, folding his arms, 'do you people, in a general way, complain of?'
-- I would never complain of anything, and what I have done I do not in the least regret.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, if he were to complain of weariness, he could have the loan of my horse.
-- As for my uncle he began to complain of the horizontal character of the road.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one ever heard my husband complain of work.'
-- I have a right to complain of it as almost a breach of confidence.
-- If it is any compensation for my long confinement within these narrow limits not that I complain of being afflicted; you know I never complain of that if it is any compensation to me for long confinement to this room, that while I am shut up from all pleasant change I am also shut up from the knowledge of some things that I may prefer to avoid knowing, why should you, of all men, grudge me that belief?'
-- Nothing to complain of.'
-- While I am grateful for the exception, I don't complain of the rule.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't complain near as much as the others do, and I shall be more careful than ever now, for I've had warning from Susies's downfall,' said Amy morally.
-- 'Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn't cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help,' said Jo, wondering.
-- 'If God spares Beth, I never will complain again,' whis-pered Meg earnestly.
-- They don't complain much plucky little souls but they feel it.
-- But in spite of these unromantic facts, I have nothing to complain of, and never was so jolly in my life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well then,' says he, 'wise Stubb, what have you to complain of?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hurst and her sister scarcely opened their mouths, except to complain of fatigue, and were evidently impatient to have the house to themselves.
-- Those who do not complain are never pitied.'
-- On the contrary, she was as much disposed to complain of it as her husband.
-- Mrs. Bennet had many griev-ances to relate, and much to complain of.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I came a little out of that part of the island I stood still awhile, as amazed, and then, recovering myself, I looked up with the utmost affection of my soul, and, with a flood of tears in my eyes, gave God thanks, that had cast my first lot in a part of the world where I was distinguished from such dreadful creatures as these; and that, though I had esteemed my present condition very miserable, had yet given me so many comforts in it that I had still more to give thanks for than to complain of: and this, above all, that I had, even in this miserable condition, been comforted with the knowledge of Himself, and the hope of His blessing: which was a felicity more than sufficiently equivalent to all the misery which I had suffered, or could suffer.
-- It was several hours after Friday came back to me be-fore they came back to their boat; and we could hear the foremost of them, long before they came quite up, calling to those behind to come along; and could also hear them answer, and complain how lame and tired they were, and not able to come any faster: which was very welcome news to us.
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