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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young girl was occupied in arranging the cottage; but presently she took something out of a drawer, which employed her hands, and she sat down beside the old man, who, taking up an instrument, began to play and to produce sounds sweet-er than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale.
-- When his children had departed, he took up his guitar and played several mournful but sweet airs, more sweet and mournful than I had ever heard him play before.
-- Its fair lakes reflect a blue and gentle sky, and when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a lively infant when compared to the roarings of the giant ocean.
-- The rain had ceased for a moment, and I saw the fish play in the waters as they had done a few hours be-fore; they had then been observed by Elizabeth.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ashley can ride with the best and play poker with the best that's me, Puss!And I'm not denying that when he setsout to drink he can put even the Tarletons under the table.
-- If simpering, coquetry or empty-headedness would attracthim, she would gladly play the flirt and be more empty-headed than even Cathleen Calvert.
-- Once Scarlett saw himand cried sharply: "Go play in the back yard, Wade Hampton!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She wants this boy to go and play there.
-- And he had better play there," said my sister, shaking her head at me as an encouragement to be extremely light and sportive, "or I'll work him."
-- "--Which some individual," Joe again politely hinted, "mentioned that she wanted him to go and play there."
-- "And couldn't she ask Uncle Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go and play there?
-- And couldn't she then ask Uncle Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go and play there?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the tailor, 'that is child's play with us!'
-- 'How lonely it is, wife,' said he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke, 'for you and me to sit here by ourselves, without any children to play about and amuse us while oth-er people seem so happy and merry with their children!'
-- 'Oh, yes,' he replied, 'I will play to you while you do it.'
-- Then the countryman rejoiced at his good luck, and said, 'I like many things better than money: first, I will have a bow that will bring down ev-erything I shoot at; secondly, a fiddle that will set everyone dancing that hears me play upon it; and thirdly, I should like that everyone should grant what I ask.'
-- 'No,' said he, 'I do not ask my life; only to let me play upon my fiddle for the last time.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.
-- I had learned in my youth to play a little upon the spinet.
-- I ran sideling upon it, that way and this, as fast as I could, banging the proper keys with my two sticks, and made a shift to play a jig, to the great satisfaction of both their majesties; but it was the most violent exercise I ever underwent; and yet I could not strike above sixteen keys, nor consequently play the bass and treble together, as other artists do; which was a great disadvantage to my per-156 Gulliver's Travelsformance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't play to you, or sing to you.
-- Her features were handsome; but their natural play was so locked up, that it seemed impossible to guess at their genuine expression.
-- Mrs. Sparsit saw him detain her with his encircling arm, and heard him then and there, within her (Mrs. Sparsit's) greedy hearing, tell her how he loved her, and how she was the stake for which he ardently desired to play away all that he had in life.
-- But, caution being necessary in communicating with him for there was a greater danger every moment of his being suspected now, and nobody could be sure at heart but that Mr. Bounderby himself, in a bullying vein of public zeal, might play a Roman part it was consented that Sissy and Louisa should repair to the place in question, by a circuitous course, alone; and that the unhappy father, setting forth in an opposite direction, should get round to the same bourne by another and wider route.
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