Avail

(noun.) a means of serving; 'of no avail'; 'there's no help for it'.

(verb.) use to one's advantage; 'He availed himself of the available resources'.

(verb.) take or use; 'She helped herself to some of the office supplies'.

(verb.) be of use to, be useful to; 'It will avail them to dispose of their booty'.

贝妮塔整理

• Such links of sentiment and association were of little avail against the intense separatism of the Greek political institutions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No less potent enchantment could avail to work this miracle. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It would avail me nothing to extenuate it now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I never go to London; so I am not likely to be able to avail myself of your polite offers. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Force is of no avail with me, and you came in a rage to demand what I refused to tell you. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It is a hundred to one if I should avail myself of it four times in a year. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Oliver saw, but too plainly, that resistance would be of no avail. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Bois-Guilbert made an effort to suppress his rising scorn and indignation, the expression of which, he was well aware, would have little availed him. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Oliver availed himself of the kind permission, and fell to the floor in a fainting fit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• This afternoon I came through it, and found you asleep in classe; again this evening I have availed myself of the same entrance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• These recommendations, however, availed nothing with Mr. Fairlie. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Really he would have been an uncommon, instead of a common, fellow, if he had not availed himself of such an opportunity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• This was the substance of Mr. Sidney's defence: but neither law, nor reason, nor eloquence, nor innocence ever availed where _Jefferies_ sat as judge. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• What avails it to me that you do not reproach me, if I so bitterly reproach myself! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• What now avails all my toil and labour in amassing honey-dew on this leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And what avails repeating this so often? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Silence, maiden, answered the Templar; such discourse now avails but little. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But thou, wounded as thou art, what avails it thou shouldst follow the steps of him whom thou couldst not aid, were he to be assaulted? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And what now avails rant or flattery? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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