wealth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 财富， 财产； 大量，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
-- And all at once the wealth displayed in the Countess de Restaud's drawing-room rose before his eyes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.
-- You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a 15question addressed to me from a man on the brink of de-struction and to whom I should have supposed that my vessel would have been a resource which he would not have exchanged for the most precious wealth the earth can afford.
-- Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the dis-covery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!Nor were these my only visions.
-- I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood.
-- The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been 144 Frankensteinthe cause of his condemnation.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too many of their fathers and grandfathershad come up to wealth from the small farmer class for that.
-- Shrewd man that he was, he knew that it was no less than a miracle that he, anIrishman with nothing of family and wealth to recommend him, should win the daughter of one of the wealthiest andproudest families on the Coast.
-- Wealth came out of the curving furrows, and arrogance came too arrogance built on green bushes and the acres offleecy white.
-- "There are many brave and patriotic men in the blockade arm of the Confederacy's naval service," ran the last ofthe doctor's letter, "unselfish men who are risking their lives and all their wealth that the Confederacy may survive.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but I rather think they were displayed as articles of property,--much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.
-- I had grand ideas of the wealth and importance of Insurers of Ships in the City, and I began to think with awe of having laid a young Insurer on his back, blackened his enterprising eye, and cut his responsible head open.
-- For, as I says to Biddy when the news of your being ill were brought by letter, which it were brought by the post, and being formerly single he is now married though underpaid for a deal of walking and shoe-leather, but wealth were not a object on his part, and marriage were the great wish of his hart--""It is so delightful to hear you, Joe!But I interrupt you in what you said to Biddy."
-- And when the day came, and an open carriage was got into the Lane, Joe wrapped me up, took me in his arms, carried me down to it, and put me in, as if I were still the small helpless creature to whom he had so abundantly given of the wealth of his great nature.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.'
-- Then she grieved sorely at her misfortune, and said she would give him all the wealth of the kingdom if he would let her off, but in vain; till at last her tears softened him, and he said, 'I will give you three days' grace, and if during that time you tell me my name, you shall keep your child.'
-- Then the small peasant was brought before the mayor, and bidden to say from whence his wealth came.
-- Then the merchant told him how all his wealth was gone to the bot-tom of the sea, and how he had nothing left but that little plot of land.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when some confessed they owed their greatness and wealth to sodomy, or incest; others, to the prostituting of their 252 Gulliver's Travelsown wives and daughters; others, to the betraying of their country or their prince; some, to poisoning; more to the perverting of justice, in order to destroy the innocent, I hope I may be pardoned, if these discoveries inclined me a little to abate of that profound veneration, which I am nat-urally apt to pay to persons of high rank, who ought to be treated with the utmost respect due to their sublime dignity, by us their inferiors.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How the remembrance of the spiced sausage, the wheaten loaf, and the beer, made my mouth water now!I would have given every prospect of worldly wealth for such a meal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his youth he had ardently loved this woman, and had heaped upon her all the locked-up wealth of his affection and imagination.
-- That wealth had been, in his desert home, like Robinson Crusoe's money; exchangeable with no one, lying idle in the dark to rust, until he poured it out for her.
-- If Clennam had not decided against falling in love with Pet; if he had had the weakness to do it; if he had, little by little, persuaded himself to set all the earnestness of his nature, all the might of his hope, and all the wealth of his matured character, on that cast; if he had done this and found that all was lost; he would have been, that night, unutterably miserable.
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