found是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 建立； 创立； 创办； 使有根据； 铸造； 熔制，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
-- That once found out, and all the rest were plain.
-- The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
-- Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of skrimshander.
-- I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was a foot too short; but that could be mended with a chair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was found lying in the street.
-- But these impertinences were speedily checked by the evidence of the surgeon, and the testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the body and found nothing inside (which was very probable indeed), and the latter of whom invariably swore whatever the parish wanted; which was very self-devotional.
-- Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
-- And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered--the poor people liked it!It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
-- Under this impression, he secretly resolved to cultivate the good opinion of the old gentleman as quickly as possible; and, if he found the Dodger incorrigible, as he more than half suspected he should, to decline the honour of his farther acquaintance.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found Mr. Bennet still up.
-- He had rather hoped that his wife's views on the stranger would be disappointed; but he soon found out that he had a different story to hear.
-- Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speak- ing to, a wish of being better acquainted with THEM was expressed towards the two eldest.
-- Miss Bingley was engrossed by Mr. Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for Mr. Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; who, when he found her to prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.
-- On entering the drawing-room she found the whole party at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting them to be playing high she declined it, and making her sister the excuse, said she would amuse herself for the short time she could stay below, with a book.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Similar to the Institution for the Found Children in Paris?'
-- If there is anything that is not to be tolerated on any terms, anything that is a type of Jack-in-office insolence and absurdity, anything that represents in coats, waistcoats, and big sticks our English holding on by nonsense after every one has found it out, it is a beadle.
-- This is how you found us staring at the Nile, and the Pyramids, and the Sphinxes, and the Desert, and all the rest of it; and this is how Tattycoram will be a greater traveller in course of time than Captain Cook.'
-- I never was like this but twice over in the quarantine yonder; and both times you found me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What the characters of the four sisters were we will leave to be found out.
-- answered a husky voice from above, and, run-ning up, Meg found her sister eating apples and crying over the Heir of Redclyffe, wrapped up in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny window.
-- Unfortunately, another bashful person had chosen the same refuge, for, as the cur-tain fell behind her, she found herself face to face with the 'Laurence boy'.
-- She beckoned, and Jo reluctantly followed her into a side room, where she found her on a sofa, holding her foot, and looking pale.
-- So Meg reclined, with rubbers well hidden, and Jo went blundering away to the dining room, which she found after going into a china closet, and opening the door of a room where old Mr. Gardiner was taking a little private refresh-ment.
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