apply是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 要求, 申请，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'These thoughts exhilarated me and led me to apply with fresh ardour to the acquiring the art of language.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which was not at all what I meant, for I had intended my question to apply to his means.
-- And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The nurse, to quiet her babe, made use of a rattle which was a kind of hol-low vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by a cable to the child's waist: but all in vain; so that she was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck.
-- I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the like particulars, which, however insignifi-cant they may appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style.
-- In the second place, I would, from my earliest youth, apply myself to the study of arts and sciences, by which I should arrive in time to excel all others in learn-ing.
-- s I ought to have understood human nature much bet-Ater than I supposed it possible for my master to do, so it was easy to apply the character he gave of the Yahoos to myself and my countrymen; and I believed I could yet make further discoveries, from my own observation.
-- Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller, I here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own specula-tions in my little garden at Redriff; to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms; to instruct the Yahoos of my own family, is far as I shall find them docible animals; to behold my figure often in aglass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tol-erate the sight of a human creature; to lament the brutality to Houyhnhnms in my own country, but always treat their persons with respect, for the sake of my noble master, his family, his friends, and the whole Houyhnhnm race, whom these of ours have the honour to resemble in all their linea-ments, however their intellectuals came to degenerate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere this was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life.'
-- Unwilling, even under this discomfiture, to resign the ingrate and leave her hopeless, in case of her better dispositions obtaining the mastery over the darker side of her character, Mr Meagles, for six successive days, published a discreetly covert advertisement in the morning papers, to the effect that if a certain young person who had lately left home without reflection, would at any time apply to his address at Twickenham, everything would be as it had been before, and no reproaches need be apprehended.
-- The swarm of begging-letter writers, who would seem to be always watching eagerly for any hook, however small, to hang a letter upon, wrote to say that having seen the advertisement, they were induced to apply with confidence for various sums, ranging from ten shillings to fifty pounds: not because they knew anything about the young person, but because they felt that to part with those donations would greatly relieve the advertiser's mind.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apply this spinal branch of phrenology to the Sperm Whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same remark he considered to apply to the regulation mode of cutting the hair: which he held to be decidedly unlawful.
-- He also sustained a clay pipe between his teeth, which he only removed for a brief space when he deemed it necessary to apply for refreshment to a quart pot upon the table, which stood ready filled with gin-and-water for the accommodation of the company.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Eliza-beth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her re-peated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mis-taken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.
-- If there were anyone that one could apply to with a probability of gaining such a clue as that, it might be of essential consequence.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having now brought my mind a little to relish my condi-tion, and given over looking out to sea, to see if I could spy a ship - I say, giving over these things, I begun to apply my-self to arrange my way of living, and to make things as easy to me as I could.
-- And now I began to apply myself to make such neces-sary things as I found I most wanted, particularly a chair and a table; for without these I was not able to enjoy the few comforts I had in the world; I could not write or eat, or do several things, with so much pleasure without a table: so I went to work.
-- Neither was my time so much loss to me, because, as I had divided it, a certain part of it was every day appointed to these works; and as I had resolved to use none of the corn for bread till I had a greater quantity by me, I had the next six months to apply myself wholly, by labour and invention, to furnish myself with utensils proper for the performing all the operations necessary for making the corn, when I had it, fit for my use.
-- This frequently gave me occasion to observe, and that with wonder, that however it had pleased God in His provi-dence, and in the government of the works of His hands, to take from so great a part of the world of His creatures the best uses to which their faculties and the powers of their souls are adapted, yet that He has bestowed upon them the same powers, the same reason, the same affec-tions, the same sentiments of kindness and obligation, the same passions and resentments of wrongs, the same sense of gratitude, sincerity, fidelity, and all the capacities of do-ing good and receiving good that He has given to us; and that when He pleases to offer them occasions of exerting these, they are as ready, nay, more ready, to apply them to the right uses for which they were bestowed than we are.
-- As to the Englishmen, I promised to send them some women from England, with a good cargo of necessaries, if they would apply themselves to planting - which I afterwards could not perform.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not apply to them.
-- Carrie went with her to apply to another manager.
-- "I won't apply as a motorman," he answered.
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