resign是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 辞职; vt. 放弃, 辞去; (to) 使顺从，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：
-- I suppose I must resign myself to it; but people will say it is a most extraordinary adventure, and it is only to me such things happen.
-- "I resign myself," said the geographer, much flattered at having supreme command.
-- "My friends," replied Paganel, taking both Robert's hands in his own, "we must resign ourselves to a sad disaster.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix did not insist, and was fain to resign himself to await the arrival of the important document; but he was determined not to lose sight of the mysterious rogue as long as he stayed in Bombay.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He strolled away, he went to the dean, and remarked: "Oh, Dean Silva, I just dropped in to tell you I've decided to resign from the medic school.
-- Martin did not resign from the Institute, and Joyce did not think about taking a house near Birdies' Rest to the extent of doing it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I construed this remark into an indication of a wish that he shouldhave my place, so I blushingly offered to resign it.
-- My roomswere engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still foundthem dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settledown into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself tocoffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallonat about this period of my existence.
-- I have tried to resign myself, and to consolemyself, and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what Icannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutelycome.
-- If you have any lingering thought that I could envythe happiness you will confer; that I could not resign you to adearer protector, of your own choosing; that I could not, from myremoved place, be a contented witness of your joy; dismiss it, for Idon't deserve it!I have not suffered quite in vain.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They sang together once more; and Emma would then resign her place to Miss Fairfax, whose performance, both vocal and instrumental, she never could attempt to conceal from her-self, was infinitely superior to her own.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come, we must resign ourselves.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death and will in-dulge a hope of meeting you in another world.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I ask you to take certain precautions or let me resign my berth.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I at last began to resign myself to the fact that no further aid was to be expected from man, and knowing that I was utterly powerless to do anything for my own salvation, I kneeled with earnest fervor and asked assistance from Heaven.
-- It was absolutely necessary to resign myself to my fate, and to consent to wait for the explosion for six weary hours!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I apprehend the girl's fortune will be very small; Henry might have done much better; there is scarcely anything to compensate for the connection: still, he acts for himself; and if I find no improvement within a short time, I see no other course than to resign myself and make the best of these people.
-- 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.
-- At first, this was so much more unlike her old experience than even the mountains themselves, that she had been unable to resign herself to it, and had tried to retain her old place about him.
-- I must resign to our creditors the power of management I have so much abused, and I must work out as much of my fault or crime as is susceptible of being worked out in the rest of my days.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Can't be helped, Marmee, so you must resign yourself to all sorts of worries, and let your birds hop out of the nest, one by one.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He meant to resign his commission immediately; and as to his future situation, he could conjecture very little about it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then reflected, that as God, who was not only righteous but omnipotent, had thought fit thus to punish and afflict me, so He was able to deliver me: that if He did not think fit to do so, it was my unquestioned duty to resign myself absolutely and entirely to His will; and, on the other hand, it was my duty also to hope in Him, pray to Him, and quietly to attend to the dictates and directions of His daily providence, These thoughts took me up many hours, days, nay, I may say weeks and months: and one particular effect of my cogi-tations on this occasion I cannot omit.
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