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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he exclaimed, "inspire thy faithful servant and fervent worshiper!Two hundred and fifty-eight years ago, my friends, Australia was unknown.
-- Could a faithful, exact old servant like himself have been guilty of such a thing!He turned red and looked quite disturbed.
-- In September, 1864, I introduced myself at the Irish farm, where I engaged myself as a servant in my real name, Ayrton.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fear your servant who gave them to him may get into trouble with the police.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A liveried servant opened the door, and the prince was obliged to enter into long ex-planations with this gentleman, who, from the first glance, looked at him and his bundle with grave suspicion.
-- The prince was too unlike the usual run of daily visitors; and although the general certainly did receive, on business, all sorts and conditions of men, yet in spite of this fact the servant felt great doubts on the subject of this particular visitor.
-- The prince's conversation was artless and confiding to a degree, and the servant could not help feeling that as from visitor to common serving-man this state of things was highly improper.
-- Fool the prince might be, still, the gen-eral's servant felt that it was not correct for him to continue to converse thus with a visitor, in spite of the fact that the prince pleased him somehow.
-- The servant followed his words with sympathetic interest.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His servant Eury-bates, a man of Ithaca, who waited on him, took charge of the cloak, whereon Ulysses went straight up to Agamem-non and received from him his ancestral, imperishable staff.
-- 'Eurypylus,' said he in his dismay, 'I know you want me bad-ly, but I cannot stay with you any longer, for there is hard fighting going on; a servant shall take care of you now, for I must make all speed to Achilles, and induce him to fight if I can; who knows but with heaven's help I may persuade him.
-- Thus, then, did her feet bear the goddess to Olympus, and meanwhile the Achaeans were flying with loud cries before murderous Hector till they reached the ships and the Hellespont, and they could not draw the body of Mars's servant Patroclus out of reach of the weapons that were showered upon him, for Hector son of Priam with his host and horsemen had again caught up to him like the flame of a fiery furnace; thrice did brave Hector seize him by the feet, striving with might and main to draw him away and calling loudly on the Trojans, and thrice did the two Aja-xes, clothed in valour as with a garment, beat him from off the body; but all undaunted he would now charge into the thick of the fight, and now again he would stand still and cry aloud, but he would give no ground.
-- He is to take such gifts with him as shall give satisfaction to Achilles, and he is to go alone, with no other Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive his mules and waggon, and bring back the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain.
-- You are to go alone, with no Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive your mules and waggon, and bring back to the city the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard the servant answer the door, and waited for her feet on the staircase, but she did not come.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With rare exceptions the meals were acceptable, being the kind that an ordinary servant can arrange.
-- A new servant had been recently installed and had forgot the napkins.
-- The servant girl hurried upstairs, convinced by the man's strained and emphatic manner.
-- She kept a servant and developed rapidly in household tactics and information.
-- She saw the servant working at dinner with an indifferent eye.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hold on a minute, my servant 'll he'p you with them bags.
-- 'NO!A servant ain't nobody there.
-- But next minute I whirled in on a kind of an expla-nation how a valley was different from a common servant and HAD to go to church whether he wanted to or not, and set with the family, on ac- count of its being the law.
-- My servant here k'n tell you 'bout it, gentle- men.'
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