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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henceforth the bear came every evening at the same time, laid himself down by the hearth, and let the children amuse themselves with him as much as they liked; and they got so used to him that the doors were never fastened until their black friend had arrived.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I answered, 'it was easy to be eloquent on so copious and delightful a subject, especially to me, who had been of-ten apt to amuse myself with visions of what I should do, if I were a king, a general, or a great lord: and upon this very case, I had frequently run over the whole system how I should employ myself, and pass the time, if I were sure to live for ever.
-- For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sen-tence to the end; and by this defect, they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be 269capable.
-- I could, perhaps, like others, have astonished thee with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact, in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform, and not to amuse thee.
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：
-- No, no!There's nothing organically wrong, but it won't do!It won't do!Tell Sir Clifford he's got to bring you to town, or take you abroad, and amuse you.
-- And amuse the women themselves, and be amused by the wom-en.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To make variety in my position, and to amuse myself what!a gentleman must be amused at somebody's expense! I conceived the happy idea of disappearing.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not roam about and amuse herself, for the burned breadth would show, so she stared at people rather forlornly till the dancing began.
-- What do you amuse yourself with?'
-- 'Isn't there some nice girl who'd read and amuse you?
-- Now please take the big chair and let me do something to amuse my company.'
-- 'No, I came to amuse you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's abrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was carefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the conversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's history or prospects, but was confined to such topics as might amuse without exciting him.
-- Nobody accepting the challenge, and his pipe being by this time smoked out, he proceeded to amuse himself by sketching a ground-plan of Newgate on the table with the piece of chalk which had served him in lieu of counters; whistling, meantime, with peculiar shrillness.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; their minds were more vacant than their sisters', and when nothing better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and however bare of news the country in gen-eral might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt.
-- On entering the drawing-room she found the whole party at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting them to be playing high she declined it, and making her sister the excuse, said she would amuse herself for the short time she could stay below, with a book.
-- 'They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and ar-ranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as un-studied an air as possible.'
-- With such kinds of histories of their parties and good jokes, did Lydia, assisted by Kitty's hints and additions, en-deavour to amuse her companions all the way to Longbourn.
-- But wishes were vain, or at least could only serve to amuse her in the hurry and confusion of the following hour.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pleased to find herself more comfortably situated in that particular than she had expected, Elinor was very willing to compound for the want of much real enjoyment from any of their evening parties, which, whether at home or abroad, formed only for cards, could have little to amuse her.
-- Elinor found, when the evening was over, that disposition is not materially altered by a change of abode, for although scarcely settled in town, Sir John had contrived to collect around him, nearly twenty young people, and to amuse them with a ball.
-- The Parrys and Sandersons luckily are coming tonight you know, and that will amuse her."
-- Well, by-and-by we shall have a few friends, and that will amuse her a little.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Really, you amuse me," answered the Marionette, nodding his head.
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