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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lord Glenarvan shook his head; not that he doubted the kind heart of her Majesty, but he knew Mary would never gain access to her.
-- "To Jacques Eliacin Francois Marie Paganel, Secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Societies of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical and Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies; who, after having spent twenty years of his life in geographical work in the study, wishes to see active service, and is on his way to India to gain for the science what information he can by following up the footsteps of great travelers."
-- "And then, my dear Paganel, you can gain the gold medal anyway.
-- They marched rapidly along the winding shore of the bay of Talcahuano, in order to gain the extremity of the parallel, thirty miles south.
-- They had a frightful height to climb yet to gain the topmost peaks.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I believed that if I had an interview I could gain his help, so I asked him to meet me.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For in-stance, he made a point of never asserting himself when he would gain more by keeping in the background; and in con-sequence many exalted personages valued him principally for his humility and simplicity, and because 'he knew his place.'
-- In this way he might gain glory in certain circles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At first, the Jew contented himself with patiently watching his countenance, as if to gain from its expression some clue to the intelligence he brought; but in vain.
-- 'I would rather walk slowly on, so as to gain a little time before I see her.
-- There was the village in the hollow on the left; but, in order to gain that, after pursuing the track Oliver had pointed out, the men must have made a circuit of open ground, which it was impossible they could have accomplished in so short a time.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If it were not allowable for him to gain MY affections because I had no money, what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about, and who was equally poor?'
-- In a few days more we may gain some news of them; and till we know that they are not married, and have no design of marrying, do not let us give the matter over as lost.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You will gain a brother, a real, affectionate brother.
-- "My own loss is great," he continued, "in being obliged to leave so agreeable a party; but I am the more concerned, as I fear my presence is necessary to gain your admittance at Whitwell."
-- "You have not been able to bring your sister over to your plan of general civility," said Edward to Elinor, "Do you gain no ground?"
-- She thought it probable that as they lived in the same county, Mrs. Palmer might be able to give some more particular account of Willoughby's general character, than could be gathered from the Middletons' partial acquaintance with him; and she was eager to gain from any one, such a confirmation of his merits as might remove the possibility of fear from Marianne.
-- Elinor, for her sister's sake, could not press the subject farther, and she hoped it was not required of her for Willoughby's; since, though Marianne might lose much, he could gain very little by the enforcement of the real truth.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And yet she was interested in her charms, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things.
-- As it was, she wavered a little, slightly anxious, at first, to gain him completely, but later feeling at ease in waiting.
-- She was too calculating to jeopardize any advantage she might gain in the way of information by fruitless clamour.
-- Presently it began to gain speed, and Carrie saw the silent streets flashing by in rapid succession.
-- He did, however, gain considerable knowledge by talking, for he discovered the influence of Tammany Hall and the value of standing in with the police.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The poor fellow was scared half to death, so he tried to sing a gay song in order to gain courage.
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