servant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little servant happening to be entering the fortress with two hot rolls, I passed through the postern and crossed the drawbridge in her company, and so came without announcement into the presence of Wemmick as he was making tea for himself and the Aged.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 22 Grimms' Fairy TalesTHE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS n honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faith-Aful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.
-- At last, as they drew near the end of their journey, this treacherous servant threatened to kill her mistress if she ever told anyone what had happened.
-- Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning re-fused to bring in the wood, telling the others that he had been their servant long enough, and had been a fool into the bargain, and that it was now time to make a change, and to try some other way of arranging the work.
-- The mayor, however, said: 'But my servant must go first.'
-- Then the servant led her away; but his heart melted when Snowdrop begged him to spare her life, and he said, 'I will not hurt you, thou pretty child.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On those occasions, when a servant had given me notice, my custom was to go immediately to the door, and, after paying my re-spects, to take up the coach and two horses very carefully in my hands (for, if there were six horses, the postillion al-ways unharnessed four,) and place them on a table, where I had fixed a movable rim quite round, of five inches high, to prevent accidents.
-- The farmer having (as I suppose by their talk) received such an account of me as his servant could give him, took a piece of a small straw, about the size of a walking-staff, and therewith lifted up the lappets of my coat; which it seems he thought to be some kind of covering that nature had given me.
-- 105 It was about twelve at noon, and a servant brought in dinner.
-- In jour-neys, when I was weary of the coach, a servant on horseback would buckle on my box, and place it upon a cushion before him; and there I had a full prospect of the country on three sides, from my three windows.
-- And I had ordered a hammock to be fixed, by silken ropes from the four corners at the top, to break the jolts, when a servant carried me before him on horseback, as I sometimes desired; and would often sleep in my hammock, while we were upon the road.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Whether,' said Gradgrind, pondering with his hands in his pockets, and his cavernous eyes on the fire, 'whether any instructor or servant can have suggested anything?
-- Would his servant say that one of the Hands begged leave to speak to him?
-- 'I left my servant at the railway looking after the luggage very heavy train and vast quantity of it in the van and strolled on, looking about me.
-- 'I am the servant of circumstances, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'and I have long adapted myself to the governing power of my life.'
-- 'You're expected, and have only to tell the servant it's you.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sent a servant to ask, could he be of any service to Lady Chatterley: he thought of driving into Sheffield.
-- 'At least I'm not a slave to somebody else's idea of me: and the somebody else a servant of my husband's,' she retorted at last, in crude anger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because the Circumlocution Office was down upon any ill-advised public servant who was going to do it, or who appeared to be by any surprising accident in remote danger of doing it, with a minute, and a memorandum, and a letter of instructions that extinguished him.
-- Mrs Gowan's door was attended by a family servant of several years' standing, who had his own crow to pluck with the public concerning a situation in the Post-Office which he had been for some time expecting, and to which he was not yet appointed.
-- Monsieur the Courier would represent to Monseigneur, that he deceived himself in suspecting that there was any why, but the why his devoted servant had already had the honour to present to him.
-- The servant waited in speechless deference.
-- The table was long, and the dinner was long; and Little Dorrit, overshadowed by a large pair of black whiskers and a large white cravat, lost sight of her father altogether, until a servant put a scrap of paper in her hand, with a whispered request from Mrs Merdle that she would read it directly.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The servant takes Hugo aside to tell him something, and Hagar changes the cups for two others which are harm-less.
扩展阅读：