demand是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 要求， 请求， 需要(量) v. 查问，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I demand no more than the opportu-nity to do so without delay.
-- 'If the Republic should demand of you the sacrifice of your child herself, you would have no duty but to sacri-fice her.
-- I demand to see her.
-- Either tell her that I demand to see her, or stand out of the way of the door and let me go to her!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you demand nothing else?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first class he put the debts which he would have to pay at once, or for which he must in any case have the money ready so that on demand for payment there could not be a moment's delay in paying.
-- The one thing the husband had a right to was to demand satisfaction with a weapon in his hand, and Vronsky was prepared for this at any minute.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular.
-- But five days after the article in the bulletin of the Geographical Society appeared, the demand began to subside: "Phileas Fogg" declined.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of the potatoes, I demand nothing; of the foolish ones like you, who think I could teach them something, I demand everything.
-- He was not so unreasonable--usually--as to demand both freedom and the fruits of popular slavery.
-- He unjustifiably took his demand over Silva's head to that great orator and patriot, Dr. Horace Greeley Truscott, president of the University.
-- "Need I say, my dear fellow, that if there's the demand I anticipate, you will have exceedingly large commissions coming!"
-- To demand that he be accurate in his statements, to quote Raymond Pearl's dictum: "As a matter of objective scientific fact, extremely little is known about why the mortality from tuberculosis has declined"--this was to be a scoundrel who really liked to befoul the pavements.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, then she gave the I O U by way of payment to this Tchebarov, and without hesitation he made a formal demand for payment.
-- Why do you demand of me a heroism that perhaps you have not either?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Such things are not much in demand hereabouts.
-- I don't know whether the Excise returns of the period mayhave exhibited any increase in the demand for pepper; but if ourperformances did not affect the market, I should say severalfamilies must have left off using it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 134 EmmaYou appear to me a little hoarse already, and when you con-sider what demand of voice and what fatigues to-morrow will bring, I think it would be no more than common pru-dence to stay at home and take care of yourself to-night.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I feel that I do," said Bathsheba; "that is, if you demand it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.
-- By the virtues that I once possessed, I demand this from you.
-- This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.'
-- What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me.
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