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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A more timorous man than the sailor would have shrunk back a little from setting out on such a dark, raining night on an errand so full of danger, across vast unknown wilds.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A clever man upon so delicate an errand has no use for a beard save to conceal his features.
-- 'And what the errand is even a county constable could guess.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We are equal,' said Cora, firmly; 'on such an errand we will follow to any danger.'
-- The vestments of the stranger announced him to be one who held a responsible situation near the person of the captain of the Canadas; and who, as it would now seem, finding his errand of peace frustrated by the fierce impetu-osity of his allies, was content to become a silent and sad spectator of the fruits of a contest that he had arrived too late to anticipate.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XIDuring the journey I thought over my errand with misgiving.
-- I do not know why I had an inkling that it would appeal to Strickland's sense of humour to bring a furious stockbroker over to Paris on a fool's errand to an ill-famed house in a mean street.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something in the manner of this reply which caused me to look at the little creature with an involuntary expression of surprise; for I wondered what kind of errand it might be that occasioned her to be prepared for questioning.
-- With the tears streaming down her face, and her slight figure trembling with the agitation of the scene she had left, the shock she had received, the errand she had just discharged, and a thousand painful and affectionate feelings, the child hastened to the door, and disappeared as rapidly as she had come.
-- As she was making her way to her own bed, she determined to say nothing of this adventure, as upon whatever errand the dwarf had come (and she feared it must have been in search of them) it was clear by his inquiry about the London coach that he was on his way homeward, and as he had passed through that place, it was but reasonable to suppose that they were safer from his inquiries there, than they could be elsewhere.
-- The communication performed its errand so well, that within ten minutes of the messenger's return and report of its delivery, Miss Brass herself was announced.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, upon bribing one of the sergeants, Nekhludoff was permitted to come near the cars, the sergeant asking him to do his errand so that the captain would not see him.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had just fastened our pinafores together, and hung them up for a curtain, when in comes Joseph, on an errand from the stables.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His errand at Barton, in fact, was a simple one.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was nonplussed at the possibility of the errand being different from what she had thought.
-- One day the following February he was sent on an errand to a large coal company's office.
-- A slow, black boat setting out from the pier at Twenty-seventh Street upon its weekly errand bore, with many others, his nameless body to the Potter's Field.
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