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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A splendid fellow," said my uncle; "only he little suspects the marvelous part he is about to play in the history of the world."
-- Electric currents produced astonishing play of light and shade in the distance, especially around the heavier clouds.
-- "So," he said, between his set teeth, "fatality will play me these terrible tricks.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now she had more time to herself she could softly play the piano, up in her room, and sing: 'Touch not the nettle, for the bonds of love are ill to loose.'
-- 'Perhaps Mrs Bolton will play piquet with you,' she said to Clifford.
-- Will you have Mrs Bolton to play something with you?'
-- 'Shall we play a game, or shall I read to you, or what shall it be?'
-- And she would make him coffee or camomile tea, and she would play chess or piquet with him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Death of my soul, I play it out wherever I go!'
-- Indeed the dancing-master was so proud of it, and so wishful to display it before he left to a few select friends among the collegians, that at six o'clock on a certain fine morning, a minuet de la cour came off in the yard the college-rooms being of too confined proportions for the purpose in which so much ground was covered, and the steps were so conscientiously executed, that the dancing-master, having to play the kit besides, was thoroughly blown.
-- The curtained windows clouded the Break of Day, but it seemed light and warm, and it announced in legible inscriptions with appropriate pictorial embellishment of billiard cue and ball, that at the Break of Day one could play billiards; that there one could find meat, drink, and lodgings, whether one came on horseback, or came on foot; and that it kept good wines, liqueurs, and brandy.
-- There were afternoon times when she was unemployed, when visitors dropped in to play a hand at cards with her father, when she could be spared and was better away.
-- I hope you have brought your appetite with you, and intend to play a good knife and fork?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is so much to do about the play for Christmas night,' said Jo, marching up and down, with her hands behind her back, and her nose in the air.
-- Mrs. March broke the silence that followed Jo's words, by saying in her cheery voice, 'Do you remember how you used to play Pilgrims Progress when you were little things?
-- If I wasn't too old for such things, I'd rather like to play it over again,' said Amy, who began to talk of renouncing childish things at the mature age of twelve.
-- 'We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another.
-- 'But we'll have another play sometime that he can see.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.
-- The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.
-- And here, gentlemen, the foul play of these miscreants must come out.
-- Nor can any son of mortal woman, for the first time, seat himself amid those hempen intricacies, and while straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones to quiver in him like a shaken jelly.
-- The unflinching earnestness with which he declared these things; the dark, daring play of his sleepless, excited imagination, and all the preternatural terrors of real delirium, united to invest this Gabriel in the minds of the majority of the ignorant crew, with an atmosphere of sacredness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered--the poor people liked it!It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
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