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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His son Robert became a sailor like himself and Captain Mangles, and under the patronage of Lord Glenarvan they resumed the project of founding a Scotch colony in the Southern Seas.
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：
-- Birkin had written to Ursula saying he expected to see her at the party, and Gudrun, although she scorned the patronage of the Criches, would nevertheless accompany her mother and father if the weather were fine.
-- There was an insult in Gudrun's protective patronage that was really too hurting.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were anx- ious that he should enter society under the auspices of this lady, whose patronage was the best of recommendations for any young man.
-- Even if there seems something strange about the match, the general and his wife said to each other, the 'world' will accept Aglaya's fiance without any question if he is under the patronage of the princess.
-- This gentleman belonged to a German family of decidedly bourgeois origin, but he had a knack of acquiring the patronage of 'big-wigs,' and of retaining their favour.
-- Literary patronage was, however, with her as much a mania as was the love of gorgeous clothes.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tide of patronage dropped a little below what it had been at its best since he had been there.
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