occupy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 占, 占用, 占领; 使忙碌, 使从事，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's enough for you,' retorted Mr. Cruncher, 'to be the wife of a honest tradesman, and not to occupy your female mind with calculations when he took to his trade or when he didn't.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But if women, as a rare exception, can occupy such positions, it seems to me you are wrong in using the expression 'rights.'
-- The dreams and memories of his mother, which had made him ill after seeing her, did not occupy his thoughts now.
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：
-- 'Avdotya Romanovna,' Luzhin declared huffily, 'your words are of too much consequence to me; I will say more, they are offensive in view of the position I have the hon-our to occupy in relation to you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They occupy the place of years in my remembrance.
-- A moment, and I occupy my place in the cathedral, where we allwent together, every Sunday morning, assembling first at schoolfor that purpose.
-- WhenPeggotty spoke of what she called my room, and of its being readyfor me at night, and of her hoping I would occupy it, before I couldso much as look at Steerforth, hesitating, he was possessed of thewhole case.
-- I felt, of course, that she hadtaken to occupy it, in remembrance of him; and that the manytokens of his old sports and accomplishments, by which she wassurrounded, remained there, just as he had left them, for the samereason.
-- 'And it was-' 'That only I would occupy this vacant place.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How they were all to be conveyed, he would have made a difficulty if he could, but as his son and daughter's car-riage and horses were actually at Hartfield, he was not able to make more than a simple question on that head; it hardly amounted to a doubt; nor did it occupy Emma long to con-vince him that they might in one of the carriages find room for Harriet also.
-- The distressing explanation she had to make to Harriet, and all that poor Harriet would be suffering, with the awkwardness of future meetings, the difficulties of continuing or discontinuing the acquaintance, of subduing feelings, concealing resentment, and avoiding eclat, were enough to occupy her in most un-mirthful reflections some time longer, and she went to bed at last with nothing settled but the conviction of her having blundered most dreadfully.
-- 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.
-- If I find him conversable, I shall be glad of his acquaintance; but if he is only a chattering coxcomb, he will not occupy much of my time or thoughts.'
-- Jane's curiosity did not appear of that absorbing nature as wholly to occupy her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Empty-headed people who babble about their own affairs because they have nothing else to occupy them, naturally conclude that if people say nothing of their doings it is because their doings will not bear being talked about; so the highly respectable merchant became a scoundrel, and the late beau was an old rogue.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.
-- I could only think of the bourne of my travels and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.
-- In one spot you view rug-ged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We made a very good meal by the kitchen fire, and then apportioned the bedrooms: Herbert and Startop were to occupy one; I and our charge the other.
-- Say it might occupy you (including breakfast on the walk) from eight to twelve.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is for you to occupy it all, if you think proper.'
-- 'The proposal is like yourself, and if the position I shall assume at the Bank is one that I could occupy without descending lower in the social scale ''Why, of course it is,' said Bounderby.
-- LOSTThe robbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now.
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