patronage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 赞助, 资助, 恩赐的态度, 互惠互利，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：
-- The prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offen-sive.
-- He was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more grudging condescension and patronage than he could have shown if their relative merits and positions had been reversed (which is invariably the case, all the world over), when Mr. Cruncher, touching him on the shoulder, hoarse-ly and unexpectedly interposed with the following singular question: 'I say!Might I ask the favour?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- UNDER THE DIRECT PATRONAGE OF THE GOD TINGOU!GREAT ATTRACTION!
-- The Long Noses form a peculiar company, under the direct patronage of the god Tingou.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of leaving his sheltered den for the patronage of the Reverend Mr. Hinkley was intolerable.
-- The dread of Watters's patronage enabled Martin to lie vigorously: "Awfully sorry--awfully sorry--got a date for tomorrow evening and the next evening."
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：
-- 'Not in the slightest, and indeed it's an absurdity!I merely hinted at her obtaining temporary assistance as the widow of an official who had died in the service if only she has patronage 芒聙娄 but apparently your late parent had not served his full term and had not indeed been in the service at all of late.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was looking out of the window that same evening, it surprisedme, and made me rather uneasy, to see Mr. Micawber and UriahHeep walk past, arm-inarm: Uriah humbly sensible of the honourthat was done him, and Mr. Micawber taking a bland delight inextending his patronage to Uriah.
-- I wasrather bashful at first, Steerforth being so self-possessed, andelegant, and superior to me in all respects (age included); but hiseasy patronage soon put that to rights, and made me quite at home.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But it is proved by the smallness of the school, which I have heard you speak of, as under the patronage of your sister and Mrs. Bragge; the only school, and not more than five-and-twenty children.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pennyways now felt himself to be in something of a difficulty, for should Bathsheba and Troy become reconciled it would be necessary to regain her good opinion if he would secure the patronage of her husband.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the villain had stopped here, his case would have been sufficiently awful, but he blackened his guilt by proceeding to take me into custody, with a right of patronage that left all his former criminality far behind.
-- If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a hard way, and in an uncertain way that fluctuated between patronage and putting down, the sprinkling from a watering-pot and hydraulic pressure, Mrs Clennam showed an interest in this dependent.
-- There was a wonderful air of benignity and patronage in his manner.
-- His brother Frederick of the dim eye, palsied hand, bent form, and groping mind, submissively shuffled at his side, accepting his patronage as he accepted every incident of the labyrinthian world in which he had got lost.
-- Old Nandy had been several times to the Marshalsea College, communicating with his son-in-law during his short durance there; and had happily acquired to himself, and had by degrees and in course of time much improved, the patronage of the Father of that national institution.
-- His patronage did not stop here; for he charged Maggy to get the tea ready, and instructed her to buy certain tea-cakes, fresh butter, eggs, cold ham, and shrimps: to purchase which collation he gave her a bank-note for ten pounds, laying strict injunctions on her to be careful of the change.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Patronage does not trouble me when it is well meant.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so for from being denied the advantages of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer-time, and there permitted to listen to, and console his mind with, a general supplication of the boys, containing a special clause, therein inserted by authority of the board, in which they entreated to be made good, virtuous, contented, and obedient, and to be guarded from the sins and vices of Oliver Twist: whom the supplication distinctly set forth to be under the exclusive patronage and protection of the powers of wickedness, and an article direct from the manufactory of the very Devil himself.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.
-- He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to coun-terbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sorry to say that my patronage ends with this; and my interest is hardly more extensive.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was nothing like the class of patronage which he had enjoyed in Chicago.
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