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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had never known writers before, and I found them very strange, but I do not think they ever seemed to me quite real.
-- When I arrived, a little late, because in my fear of being too early I had walked three times round the cathedral, I found the party already complete.
-- It was because the Member of Parliament found that he could not leave the House that I had been invited.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
-- Not having been able to leave the town before the first operations of the siege, he found himself shut up, to his great disgust; but, not accustomed to succumb to difficulties, he resolved to escape by some means or other.
-- They found themselves at the extremity of a sharp point on which the sea broke furiously.
-- What was their disappointment, when, after trudging nearly two miles, having reached an elevated point composed of slippery rocks, they found themselves again stopped by the sea.
-- Either the engineer had been able to save himself, and had already found a refuge on some point of the coast, or he was lost for ever!The long and painful hours passed by.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned hastily round and found at my elbow a pretty little girl, who begged to be directed to a certain street at a considerable distance, and indeed in quite another quarter of the town.
-- There was no reason, however, why I should refrain from seeing the person who had inconsiderately sent her to so great a distance by night and alone, and as it was not improbable that if she found herself near home she might take farewell of me and deprive me of the opportunity, I avoided the most frequented ways and took the most intricate, and thus it was not until we arrived in the street itself that she knew where we were.
-- 'I would have found my way back to you, grandfather,' said the child boldly; 'never fear.'
-- 'I'd have found her, master,' said Kit, 'I'd have found her.
-- However, as the door of the shop was shut, and it did not appear likely that I should be recognized by those within, if I continued merely to pass up and down before it, I soon conquered this irresolution, and found myself in the Curiosity Dealer's warehouse.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wife became aware of it, and when, on one occasion, she found them both in the room, she fell on Katiousha and began to beat her.
-- She found such a place with a lady who was living with her two student boys.
-- Now that he found himself the owner of vast estates, he was confronted by two alternatives: either to waive his ownership in favor of the peasants, as he did ten years ago with the two hundred acres, or, by tacit acquiescence, confess that all his former ideas were erroneous and false.
-- The other alternative--to reject all the arguments against private ownership of land which he gathered from Spencer's Social Statics, and of which he found confirmation in the works of Henry George--he could follow even less.
-- Katiousha had to do all the housework, but she managed to do her duty and found spare time for reading.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next Thursday I went again to Richmond I suppose I was one of the Time Traveller's most constant guests and, arriving late, found four or five men already assembled in his drawing-room.
-- I expected to finish it on Friday; but on Friday, when the putting together was nearly done, I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning.
-- Indeed, I found afterwards that horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction.
-- And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued.
-- "As I walked I was watching for every impression that could possibly help to explain the condition of ruinous splendour in which I found the world for ruinous it was.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
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