attendant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 服务员; 仆人，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：
-- In the church and at the Cross, a kneeling figure or two; attendant on the latter prayers, the led cow, trying for a breakfast among the weeds at its foot.
-- The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed to fall so threatening and dark on the child, that her mother instinctively kneeled on the ground beside her, and held her to her breast.
-- The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed then to fall, threatening and dark, on both the mother and the child.
-- That honest tradesman's manner of receiving the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the leg on which he rested, as often as if he had fifty of those limbs, and were trying them all; he examined his finger-nails with a very questionable closeness of atten-tion; and whenever Mr. Lorry's eye caught his, he was taken with that peculiar kind of short cough requiring the hollow of a hand before it, which is seldom, if ever, known to be an infirmity attendant on perfect openness of character.
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：
-- He moved away from the window, shut it, lighted the 710 Crime and Punishmentcandle, put on his waistcoat, his overcoat and his hat and went out, carrying the candle, into the passage to look for the ragged attendant who would be asleep somewhere in the midst of candle-ends and all sorts of rubbish, to pay him for the room and leave the hotel.
-- In vexa-tion he took up the candle to go and look for the ragged attendant again and make haste to go away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her impatient attendant scolds her, tells her I am not inmourning, bids her look again, tries to rouse her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able and yet without losing a word to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole; to see that Harriet's hopes had been entirely groundless, a mistake, a delusion, as complete a delusion as any of her own that Harriet was nothing; that she was every thing herself; that what she had been say-ing relative to Harriet had been all taken as the language of her own feelings; and that her agitation, her doubts, her reluctance, her discouragement, had been all received as discouragement from herself. And not only was there time for these convictions, with all their glow of attendant happiness; there was time also to rejoice that Harriet's se-cret had not escaped her, and to resolve that it need not, and should not. It was all the service she could now render her poor friend; for as to any of that heroism of sentiment which might have prompted her to entreat him to transfer his affection from herself to Harriet, as infinitely the most worthy of the two or even the more simple sublimity of resolving to refuse him at once and for ever, without vouch-safing any motive, because he could not marry them both, Emma had it not.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When her attendant was unconscious and softly breathing in the next room, the mistress of the house was still looking out of the window at the faint gleam spreading from among the trees not in a steady shine, but blinking like a revolving coast-light, though this appearance failed to suggest to her that a person was passing and repassing in front of it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father 26 Frankensteinhad gradually relinquished all his public functions; and im-mediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.
-- 'She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquaint-ed with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were at a loss to find a suitable attendant for her, until a circumstance happened conveniently to relieve us.
-- No other attendant than the housekeeper appeared.
-- The disgrace attendant on his immediately afterwards taking to crowing and pursuing me across the bridge with crows, as from an exceedingly dejected fowl who had known me when I was a blacksmith, culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was, so to speak, ejected by it into the open country.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In reality, the great volcanic movement of the island, and all its attendant phenomena, are concentrated in the interior of the island; there, horizontal layers or strata of rocks, piled one upon the other, eruptions of basaltic origin, and streams of lava, have given this country a kind of supernatural reputation.
-- CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY BELOW GROUND I Awoke on Sunday morning without any sense of hurry and bustle attendant on an immediate departure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A door stood open, and within she saw the attendant upon the girl she had just left; the maid with the curious name.
-- 'What with my rheumatic affection, and what with its attendant debility or nervous weakness names are of no matter now I have lost the use of my limbs.
-- Before they had ceased to ring in the echoes of the prison walls, the family had got into their carriage, and the attendant had the steps in his hand.
-- The attendant gondola, having skimmed forward again, with some swift trace of an eye in the window, Fanny laughed coquettishly and said, 'Did you ever see such a fool, my love?'
-- Descending into the sea again after dinner, and ascending out of it at the Opera staircase, preceded by one of their gondoliers, like an attendant Merman, with a great linen lantern, they entered their box, and Mr Sparkler entered on an evening of agony.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was the attendant or page of Queequeg, while busy at the mat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The attendant stooped over the bed, to ascertain; and nodded in the affirmative.
-- The attendant did as she was told: shaking her head meanwhile, to intimate that the woman would not die so easily; having done so, she resumed her seat by the side of the other nurse, who had by this time returned.
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