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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment they all sat silent, gazing at this frail relic, wondering if it told the tale of sad disaster, or brought some trifling message from a frolic-loving sailor, who had flung it into the sea to amuse himself when he had nothing better to do.
-- Their friends did their best to amuse them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This new woman gave him further to understand that though it was absolutely the same to her whom he married, yet she had decided to prevent this marriage for no par-ticular reason, but that she chose to do so, and because she wished to amuse herself at his expense for that it was 'quite her turn to laugh a little now!'
-- 'Quite so, nonsense!Ha, ha, ha!dear me!He did amuse me, did the general!We went off on the hot scent to Wilkin's together, you know; but I must first observe that the general was even more thunderstruck than I myself this morning, when I awoke him after discovering the theft; so much so that his very face changed he grew red and then pale, and at length flew into a paroxysm of such noble wrath that I assure you I was quite surprised!He is a most generous-hearted man!He tells lies by the thousands, I know, but it is merely a weakness; he is a man of the highest feelings; a simple-minded man too, and a man who carries the con-viction of innocence in his very appearance.
-- 'Au revoir!I shall amuse them all with this story tomor-row!'
-- Some people lie, if you like to put it so, out of pure friendship, in order to amuse their fellows; but when a man makes use of extravagance in order to show his disrespect and to make clear how the intimacy bores him, it is time for a man of honour to break off the said intimacy., and to teach the offender his place.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Uncas acted as attendant to the females, performing all the little offices within his power, with a mixture of dignity and anxious grace, that served to amuse Heyward, who well knew that it was an utter inno-vation on the Indian customs, which forbid their warriors to descend to any menial employment, especially in favor of their women.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It wouldn't amuse me."
-- If she had any sense of humour, it must amuse her that he should place her on a pedestal and worship her with such an honest idolatry, but even while she laughed she must have been pleased and touched.
-- He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rather a light purse,' added Isaac, throwing it into the air and catching it dexterously, 'but enough to amuse a gentleman for half an hour or so.'
-- 'It will amuse me.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they were interested by my matches, and I struck some to amuse them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "By all means, it might amuse you."
-- He too rose slowly and went to the water's edge, where, crouching, he began to amuse himself unconsciously.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After playing lady's maid to the new comer, and putting my cakes in the oven, and making the house and kitchen cheerful with great fires, befitting Christmas eve, I prepared to sit down and amuse myself by singing carols, all alone; regardless of Joseph's affirmations that he considered the merry tunes I chose as next door to songs.
-- You might be dumb, or a baby, for anything you say to amuse me, or for anything you do, either!
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