retail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 零售, 零卖，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion, with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode, and the improvements it was receiv-ing, he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them; and he found in Mrs. Phillips a very attentive listen-er, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This functionary, being, of course, well used to such scenes; looking upon all kinds of robbery, from petty larceny up to housebreaking or ventures on the highway, as matters in the regular course of business; and regarding the perpetrators in the light of so many customers coming to be served at the wholesale and retail shop of criminal law where he stood behind the counter; received Mr Brass's statement of facts with about as much interest and surprise, as an undertaker might evince if required to listen to a circumstantial account of the last illness of a person whom he was called in to wait upon professionally; and took Kit into custody with a decent indifference.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The nature of these vast retail combinations, should they ever permanently disappear, will form an interesting chapter in the commercial history of our nation.
-- They were along the line of the most effective retail organisation, with hundreds of stores coordinated into one and laid out upon the most imposing and economic basis.
-- Have you ever worked in a retail store before?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little jars of tobacco, little boxes of cigars, a little assortment of pipes, a little jar or two of snuff, and a little instrument like a shoeing horn for serving it out, composed the retail stock in trade.
-- He had doubts whether reference to any individual capital, or fortune, might not seem a wretchedly retail affair to so wholesale a dealer.
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