increase是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 增加， 增长， 增进n. 增加， 增长， 增进，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I wanted to find out the necessary increase of weight required to sink the Nautilus, I had only to calculate the reduction of volume that sea-water acquires according to the depth."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The initial idea had been, to obtain as much money from the earth as would make the owners comfortably rich, would allow the workmen sufficient wages and good conditions, and would increase the wealth of the country altogether.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roof has been kept whole hitherto; but as the clergyman's stipend is only twenty pounds per annum, and a house with two rooms, threatening speedily to determine into one, no clergyman will undertake the duties of pastor: especially as it is currently reported that his flock would rather let him starve than increase the living by one penny from their own pockets.
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