play是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 玩， 做游戏； 参加比赛n. 游戏； 玩耍； 剧本，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dan-gling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, people then paid to see the play at the Old Bailey, just as they paid to see the play in Bed-lam only the former entertainment was much the dearer.
-- For, he contended with himself that it was impossible to foresee what that lady might pretend next; and he felt assured that if she should take it into her brightly ornamented head to pretend that she had seen him do a murder and afterwards flay the vic-tim, she would infallibly go through with it until the play was played out.
-- 'No; I am going to play backgammon with you, if you like,' said the Doctor.
-- Let the Doctor play the winning game; I will play the losing one.
-- Now, the stake I have resolved to play for, in case of the worst, is a friend in the Conciergerie.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the Princess happened to walk that way; and when she heard the tune, she stood quite still, and seemed pleased; for she could play 'Lieber Augustine"; it was the only piece she knew; and she played it with one finger.
-- The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole cre-62 Andersen's Fairy Talesation; it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures, and which, should we not have seen a similar play of color in the South, we declare at once to be unnatu-ral.
-- The boxes were 82 Andersen's Fairy Talesvery high, and the children knew that they must not creep over them; so they often obtained permission to get out of the windows to each other, and to sit on their little stools among the roses, where they could play delight fully.
-- The next morning she went to play with the flowers in the warm sunshine, and thus passed away a day.
-- 'She shall play with me,' said the little robber child.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You remember the children, Stiva, to play with them; but I remember them, and know that this means their ruin," she said--obviously one of the phrases she had more than once repeated to herself in the course of the last few days.
-- "On one side it's a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and I'm neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side" (he stammered) "it's a means for the coterie of the district to make money.
-- Well, you must excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, but to my mind it is better fun to play the ring game," said the old prince, looking at Vronsky, and guessing that it had been his suggestion.
-- And it had become a sort of game among them to sit a close as possible to their aunt, to touch her, hold her little hand, kiss it, play with her ring, or even touch the flounce of her skirt.
-- Whether it was that the children were fickle, or that they had acute senses, and felt that Anna was quite different that day from what she had been when they had taken such a fancy to her, that she was not now interested in them,--but they had abruptly dropped their play with their aunt, and their love for her, and were quite indifferent that she was going away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "All included," returned Phileas Fogg, continuing to play despite the discussion.
-- Whether he were victorious or beaten, Mr. Fogg would be delayed, and ""And," added Passepartout, "that would play the game of the gentlemen of the Reform Club.
-- Once, having resolved on a bold stroke, he was on the point of playing a spade, when a voice behind him said, "I should play a diamond."
-- cried the colonel; "it's you who are going to play a spade!"
-- The colonel has again insulted me, by insisting that I should not play a spade, and he shall give me satisfaction for it."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the property of the people of the state, and what they want--or what they are told they want--is a mill to turn out men and women who will lead moral lives, play bridge, drive good cars, be enterprising in business, and occasionally mention books, though they are not expected to have time to read them.
-- They say, 'Oh, sure, science is all right in its way; helps a doc to treat his patients,' and then they begin to argue about whether they can make more money if they locate in a big city or a town, and is it better for a young doc to play the good-fellow and lodge game, or join the church and look earnest.
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