gain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 获得； 增加； 表等走快n. 增进， 增加； 收益，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He added, in a jesting way, that perhaps George Washington might gain almost as great a name in history as George the Third.
-- They had not made the round of their changed life many weeks, when her father said to her, on coming home one evening: 'My dear, there is an upper window in the prison, to which Charles can sometimes gain access at three in the af-393ternoon.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the profits of labor, on which they might improve their position, and gain leisure for themselves, and after that education, all the surplus values are taken from them by the capitalists.
-- Knowing perfectly well beforehand that the matter would never come to real danger, it would amount to my simply trying to gain a certain sham reputation by such a challenge.
-- "The only gain is that I live in my own house, neither bought nor hired.
-- The gray-whiskered landowner smiled at the mention of the profits of Sviazhsky's famling, obviously aware how much gain his neighbor and marshal was likely to be making.
-- But you gain nothing..." "Why do you mix things up?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and London from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality.
-- After this meeting, Passepartout and Fix got into the habit of chatting together, the latter making it a point to gain the worthy man's confidence.
-- But this delay, as it was foreseen, did not affect Phileas Fogg's programme; besides, the Mongolia, instead of reaching Aden on the morning of the 15th, when she was due, arrived there on the evening of the 14th, a gain of fifteen hours.
-- This was a gain to Phileas Fogg of two days since his departure from London, and he calmly entered the fact in the itinerary, in the column of gains.
-- The Parsee, who was quite familiar with the roads and paths in the district, declared that they would gain twenty miles by striking directly through the forest.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as he repeated the fables of his fathers it did not occur to him to believe them, or to stoop in fear before their God of Wrath--or to gain ease by permitting Hunziker to defile his discovery.
-- Letters demanded of Gottlieb, "Can you stand by, with the stuff of salvation in your hands, and watch thousands of these unfortunate people dying in St. Hubert, and what is more are you going to let the dreaded plague gain a foothold in the Western hemisphere?
-- It came to him that Gottlieb, in his secluded innocence, had not realized what it meant to gain leave to experiment amid the hysteria of an epidemic.
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：
-- And in spite of Pyotr Petrovitch's evasiveness, very natural at present (since he does not know you), Dounia is firmly persuaded that she will gain everything by her good influence over her future husband; this she is reckoning upon.
-- This was in order to divert the- attention of the old woman for a time, while she was trying to undo the knot, and so to gain a moment.
-- But at the first turning he stopped and, after a minute's thought, turned into a side street and went two streets out of his way, possibly without any object, or pos-sibly to delay a minute and gain time.
-- I want now to see Avdotya Romanovna through your mediation, and if you like in your presence, to explain to her that in the first place she will never gain anything but harm from Mr. Luzhin.
-- Couldn't he gain something through them?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw the door move, and instinctively tried to holdthe latch on the outside, to gain a moment's time.
-- I have never believed it possible thatany natural or improved ability can claim immunity from thecompanionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities, andhope to gain its end.
-- 'Inever thought,' proceeded Annie, with a heightened colour, 'of anyworldly gain that my husband would bring to me.
-- She was sure that in my every purpose I should gain a firmerand a higher tendency, through the grief I had undergone.
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