errand是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 差使, 差事，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：
-- An errand of gen-370 A tale of two citieserosity brought him here unknown to us; he was stopped at the barrier, and sent to prison.'
-- Upon that there stool, at that there Bar, sets that there boy of mine, brought up and growed up to be a man, wot will errand you, message you, generallight-job you, till your heels is where your head is, if such should be your wishes.
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：
-- And the old errand man looked quite pleased, nodded, and took the pewter soldier over to the old house.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Should he divulge Fix's real errand to his master?
-- The thought then struck Passepartout, that he was the cause of this new misfortune!Had he not concealed Fix's errand from his master?
-- Passepartout went on his errand enchanted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I found myself on the familiar Highgate road, pursuing sucha different errand from that old one of pleasure, with which it wasassociated, it seemed as if a complete change had come on mywhole life.
-- 'I hope the next time you come here, my dear fellow,' I say toTraddles, 'it will be on the same errand for yourself.
-- He kept a lodging over the little chandler's shop in HungerfordMarket, which I have had occasion to mention more than once, andfrom which he first went forth upon his errand of mercy.
-- 735I had not, at first, the courage to ring at the gate; and when I didring, my errand seemed to me to be expressed in the very sound ofthe bell.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To fall in with each other on such an errand as this,' thought Emma; 'to meet in a charitable scheme; this will bring a great increase of love on each side.
-- If the errand were not a pleasure to me, it could be done, as it always is when I am not here, by my grandmama's.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this while he was perplexing himself about an errand on which he might consistently visit the cottage of Bathsheba's aunt.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Out on an errand for M.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, as they went along, Herbert reflected, that I might, after all, have been brought there on some genuine and serviceable errand tending to Provis's safety, and, bethinking himself that in that case interruption must be mischievous, left his guide and Startop on the edge of the quarry, and went on by himself, and stole round the house two or three times, endeavouring to ascertain whether all was right within.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Jupe sent his daughter out on an errand not an hour ago, and then was seen to slip out himself, with his hat over his eyes, and a bundle tied up in a handkerchief under his arm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime Mrs Bangham had been out on an errand to a neighbouring establishment decorated with three golden balls, where she was very well known.
-- It was with some difficulty that she could be induced to go back with the excuse; but the promise of being told a story of old her great delight on condition that she concentrated her faculties upon the errand and left her little mistress to herself for an hour longer, combined with a misgiving on Maggy's part that she had left her good temper at the bottom of the staircase, prevailed.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm errand boy to this establish-ment,' said Laurie, taking up his cap.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if the currents carry ye to those sweet Antilles where the beaches are only beat with water-lilies, will ye do one little errand for me?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's abrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was carefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the conversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's history or prospects, but was confined to such topics as might amuse without exciting him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it ended in nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool's errand again.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, with the abhor-rence of the inhuman errand these wretches came about, filled me with such indignation that I came down again to Friday, and told him I was resolved to go down to them and kill them all; and asked him if he would stand by me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shock of Colonel Brandon's errand at Barton had been much softened to Mrs. Dashwood by her own previous alarm; for so great was her uneasiness about Marianne, that she had already determined to set out for Cleveland on that very day, without waiting for any further intelligence, and had so far settled her journey before his arrival, that the Careys were then expected every moment to fetch Margaret away, as her mother was unwilling to take her where there might be infection.
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