receive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 收到， 接到； 遭受， 受到； 接待， 接见，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Take us alive,' they cried, 'son of Atreus, and you shall receive a great ransom for us.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they reached the spot where the Indian stood, pointing into the thicket that fringed the military road; a narrow and blind path, which might, with some little inconvenience, receive one person at a time, became visible.
-- Along this track the travelers, who had produced a surprise so un- usual in the depths of the forest, advanced slowly toward the hunter, who was in front of his associates, in readiness to receive them.
-- Will you, Alice, receive it at my hands at such a price?
-- 'In truth, we have a little wonder why you should so rigidly absent yourself from a place where the gratitude of the daughters might receive the support of a parent's thanks.'
-- A slight exclamation of surprise even burst from the lips of the young man, but instantly, recollecting his errand, and the presence in which he stood, he suppressed every ap-pearance of emotion, and turned to the hostile leader, who had already advanced a step to receive him.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the musical disciples who assembled, one eve-ning in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Codlin would have risen to receive it, but the child hurried towards him and placed it in his hand.
-- He would often persuade her to undertake his share of writing in addition to her own; nay, he would sometimes reward her with a hearty slap on the back, and protest that she was a devilish good fellow, a jolly dog, and so forth; all of which compliments Miss Sally would receive in entire good part and with perfect satisfaction.
-- But they were both up very early for all that, and had small appetites for breakfast and less for dinner, and were in a state of great excitement when Barbara's mother came in, with astonishing accounts of the fineness of the weather out of doors (but with a very large umbrella notwithstanding, for people like Barbara's mother seldom make holiday without one), and when the bell rang for them to go up stairs and receive their quarter's money in gold and silver.
-- But Kit's mother, again wouldn't anybody have supposed she had come of a good stock and been a lady all her life!There she was, quite ready to receive them, with a display of tea-things that might have warmed the heart of a china-shop; and little Jacob and the baby in such a state of perfection that their clothes looked as good as new, though Heaven knows they were old enough!Didn't she say before they had sat down five minutes that Barbara's mother was exactly the sort of lady she expected, and didn't Barbara's mother say that Kit's mother was the very picture of what she had expected, and didn't Kit's mother compliment Barbara's mother on Barbara, and didn't Barbara's mother compliment Kit's mother on Kit, and wasn't Barbara herself quite fascinated with little Jacob, and did ever a child show off when he was wanted, as that child did, or make such friends as he made!
-- The other gentleman assented, observing that he was expected at the Hospital, and that several pensioners would be ready to receive him whenever he arrived.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What name did you receive at baptism?"
-- He had nothing to tell her, but tried to think of something, and said, when passing her: "Auntie said that she would receive the sacrament after mass."
-- Missy said to Nekhludoff, desiring to receive confirmation of her opinion that man's character can best be learned in play.
-- "It is hardly proper for me to come here to put people out of temper," he thought, and, in an effort to be pleasant, he said that he would go with pleasure if the Princess were in a mood to receive him.
-- "If she only knew who I was, she would never receive me, and yet I taunted her with coquetting with that gentleman.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my excitement I fancied that they would receive my invasion of their burrows as a declaration of war.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Professor," said this strange man, "you must excuse the unceremonious way in which I receive you, and the disorder of this room."
-- The hole was soon large and deep enough to receive the body.
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：
-- They pressed near to receive her, looking with zest at the stooping blond head with its flower buds, and at the delicate, white, tentative foot that was reaching down to the step of the carriage.
-- And he too was tortured with shame, and ultimate dislike, and with acute pity for her, because he did not want to meet her eyes, he did not want to receive her flare of recognition.
-- "From those little red bits, the nuts come; if they receive pollen from the long danglers."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them.
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