amuse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 逗…笑; 使娱乐，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：
-- One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house: 'Now let us see what we can do to amuse ourselves.'
-- 'Per-haps he will amuse my good Polly,' added the lady, looking with a benignant smile at a large green parrot that swung himself backwards and forwards most comfortably in his ring, inside a magnificent brass-wired cage.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wanted to laugh, and was immediately ashamed that anything could amuse her at such a moment.
-- It won't do my wife any harm, and it'll amuse me.
-- Amuse Kitty by the sight of my wretchedness, submit to her patronizing?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, I'm sure, but-- Oh, Martykins, you won't be silly and let these nurses just amuse themselves with you?
-- Gottlieb lost his temper: "Do you make an endeavor to find positions for teachers, or do you merely send out circulars to amuse yourself?
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：
-- It's simply a fantasy to amuse myself; a plaything!Yes, maybe it is a plaything.'
-- Let her go!Let him amuse himself.'
-- I thought I should amuse you with my chatter, and I believe I have only made you cross.'
-- 'N-no,' mumbled Zossimov; 'you may amuse him.'
-- I began this discussion with an object, but I've grown so sick during the last three years of this chattering to amuse oneself, of this incessant flow of commonplaces, always the same, that, by Jove, I blush even when other people talk like that.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She recalled her past kindness the kindness, the affec-tion of sixteen years how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years old how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse her in health and how nursed her through the various illnesses of childhood.
-- 'If he would be so good as to read to them, it would be a kindness indeed!It would amuse away the difficulties of her part, and lessen the irksomeness of Miss Smith's.'
-- She got her to Hartfield, and shewed her the most unvarying kind-ness, striving to occupy and amuse her, and by books and conversation, to drive Mr. Elton from her thoughts.
-- This is like giv-ing ourselves a slap, to be sure!and it was but yesterday I was telling Mr. Cole, I really was ashamed to look at our new grand pianoforte in the drawing-room, while I do not know one note from another, and our little girls, who are but just beginning, perhaps may never make any thing of it; and there is poor Jane Fairfax, who is mistress of mu-sic, has not any thing of the nature of an instrument, not even the pitifullest old spinet in the world, to amuse herself with. I was saying this to Mr. Cole but yesterday, and he quite agreed with me; only he is so particularly fond of mu-sic that he could not help indulging himself in the purchase, hoping that some of our good neighbours might be so oblig-ing occasionally to put it to a better use than we can; and that really is the reason why the instrument was bought or else I am sure we ought to be ashamed of it. We are in great hopes that Miss Woodhouse may be prevailed with to try it this evening.'
-- 'Upon my word,' exclaimed Emma, 'you amuse me!I should like to know how many of all my numerous engage-ments take place without your being of the party; and why I am to be supposed in danger of wanting leisure to attend to the little boys.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you, too, will do the like; you who with this book in your white hand will sink back among the cushions of your armchair, and say to yourself, "Perhaps this may amuse me."
-- He was proof against her malice, and in desperation she spoke to him and of him slightingly before the other lodgers, who began to amuse themselves at his expense, and so gratified her desire for revenge.
-- de Beauseant about my adventure; perhaps it may amuse her.
-- This thrust was too cruel; the Vicomtesse's face grew white, but she answered, laughing, "One of those rumors that fools amuse themselves with.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My trifling occupations take up my time and amuse me, and I am rewarded for any exertions by see-ing none but happy, kind faces around me.
-- Henry rejoiced in my gaiety and sincerely sympathized in my feelings; he exerted himself to amuse me, while he expressed the sensations that filled his soul.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '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!'
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