enterprise是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 艰巨的事业, 事业心; 企业，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：
-- Indeed, if the finding of Harry Grant had involved following a parallel across continents instead of oceans, the enterprise could not have been attempted; but the sea was there ready to carry the travelers from one country to another, and on the 6th of December, at the first streak of day, they saw a fresh mountain apparently emerging from the bosom of the waves.
-- Thus the enterprise of these generous Scots had failed!Failed!a despairing word that finds no echo in a brave soul; and yet under the repeated blows of adverse fate, Glenarvan himself was compelled to acknowledge his inability to prosecute his devoted efforts.
-- Did they know of the existence of the prisoners, or was it some private enterprise that led to the undertaking?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Enterprise is better than money, and there, sir, you have my whole system of economy, if you wish!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertaken.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two men were promenading up and down the wharves, among the crowd of natives and strangers who were sojourning at this once straggling village now, thanks to the enterprise of M. Lesseps, a fast-growing town.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He conceived that there might, in this world, be a medical school which should be altogether scientific, ruled by exact quantitative biology and chemistry, with spectacle-fitting and most of surgery ignored, and he further conceived that such an enterprise might be conducted at the University of Winnemac!He tried to be practical about it; oh, he was extremely practical and plausible!
-- "Dr. M. Arrowsmith of Wheatsylvania is being congratulated, we are informed by our valued pioneer local physician, Dr. Adam Winter, by the medical fraternity all through the Pony River Valley, there being no occupation or profession more unselfishly appreciative of each other's virtues than the medical gentlemen, on the courage and enterprise he recently displayed in addition to his scientific skill.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has some great enterprise before him and needs money for it 芒聙娄 and tries to get it 芒聙娄 do you see?'
-- Would they expose any enterprise of his?
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：
-- But, beyond this, the enterprise and energy of a people who have done so much in other places have done little here.
-- While, in the pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the dis-tant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it may easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described.
-- The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the character of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former warriors and statesmen.
-- Once more the savage yells burst out of the woods, and the leaden hail whistled above the heads of the besieged, as if to confine them to a place where they might become easy victims to the enterprise of the warrior who had mounted the tree.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Letter 1To Mrs. Saville, England St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17 You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regard-ed with such evil forebodings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As there was nothing I liked better than horse exercise, the pleasure of riding through an unknown country caused the early part of our enterprise to be particularly agreeable to me.
-- If, when that time is expired, I have not found the water of which we are in search, I swear to you, I will give up my mighty enterprise and return to the earth's surface."
-- He was convinced that our enterprise would in the end be successful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then commissioned Maggy to return with his replies, and gave her the shilling of which the failure of her supplemental enterprise would have disappointed her otherwise.
-- It had reached this point when Mr Merdle came home from his daily occupation of causing the British name to be more and more respected in all parts of the civilised globe capable of the appreciation of world-wide commercial enterprise and gigantic combinations of skill and capital.
-- Do they yield so laudably to the vast and cumulative influence of such enterprise and such renown; do those little rills become absorbed so quietly and easily, and, as it were by the influence of natural laws, so beautifully, in the swoop of the majestic stream as it flows upon its wondrous way enriching the surrounding lands; that their course is perfectly to be calculated, and distinctly to be predicated?'
-- He explained that his partner was then absent on an enterprise of importance, and that it particularly behoved himself publicly to accept the blame of what he had rashly done, and publicly to exonerate his partner from all participation in the responsibility of it, lest the successful conduct of that enterprise should be endangered by the slightest suspicion wrongly attaching to his partner's honour and credit in another country.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble, who had eyed the building with very rueful looks, was apparently about to express some doubts relative to the advisability of proceeding any further with the enterprise just then, when he was prevented by the appearance of Monks: who opened a small door, near which they stood, and beckoned them inwards.
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