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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIV WEALTH IN THE WILDERNESSON January 6, at 7 A. M., after a tranquil night passed in longitude 146 degrees 15", the travelers continued their journey across the vast district.
-- All this incalculable wealth had been accumulating for centuries, and if the sulphur beds of Sicily should ever be exhausted, it is here, in this little known district of New Zealand, that supplies must be sought.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Merdle is a most extensive merchant, his transactions are on the vastest scale, his wealth and influence are very great, but even he Bird, be quiet!'
-- That is to say, it may be supposed that he got all he wanted, otherwise with unlimited wealth he would have got it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter informs the party that she bequeths untold wealth to the young pair and an awful doom to Don Pedro, if he doesn't make them happy.
-- I can do more, for even your ambitious soul cannot refuse the Earl of Devereux and De Vere, when he gives his ancient name and boundless wealth in return for the beloved hand of this fair lady, now my wife.
-- Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
-- 'If we were belles, or women of wealth and posi-tion, we might do something, perhaps, but for us to frown at one set of young gentlemen because we don't approve of them, and smile upon another set because we do, wouldn't have a particle of effect, and we should only be considered odd and puritanical.'
-- Mrs. March and her husband smiled and nodded at each other with happy faces, for they saw that their youngest had done well, not only in worldly things, but the better wealth of love, confidence, and happiness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels, and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping western world.
-- From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Collins's present circumstances made it a most eligible match for their daughter, to whom they could give little for-tune; and his prospects of future wealth were exceedingly fair.
-- They may wish many things besides his happiness; they may wish his increase of wealth and consequence; they may wish him to marry a girl who has all the importance of money, great connections, and pride.'
-- She could not determine how her mother would take it; some-times doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I had got home to my little tent, where I lay, with all my wealth about me, very secure.
-- Had the stern of the ship been fixed, and the forepart broken off, I am persuad-ed I might have made a good voyage; for by what I found in those two chests I had room to suppose the ship had a great deal of wealth on board; and, if I may guess from the course she steered, she must have been bound from Buenos Ayres, or the Rio de la Plata, in the south part of America, beyond the Brazils to the Havannah, in the Gulf of Mexico, and so perhaps to Spain.
-- It is impossible to express the flutterings of my very heart when I found all my wealth about me; for as the Brazil ships come all in fleets, the same ships which brought my letters brought my goods: and the effects were safe in the river before the letters came to my hand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?"
-- "Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it."
-- YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.
-- Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hale's extended harangues upon the subjects of wealth and position taught her to distinguish between degrees of wealth.
-- The world of wealth and distinction was quite as far away as ever.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Don't listen to those who promise you wealth overnight, my boy.
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