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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What he thought to gain by Gania's marriage to the girl it was difficult to imagine.
-- What does he wish to gain by it, I wonder?'
-- Ptitsin here looked in and beckoned to Gania, who hast-ily left the room, in spite of the fact that he had evidently wished to say something more and had only made the re-mark about the room to gain time.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have followed you, Sir Insolence!for your pleasure, not ours to gain satisfaction from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaus.
-- But even so the Trojans could not rout the Achae-ans, who still held on; and as some honest hard-working woman weighs wool in her balance and sees that the scales be true, for she would gain some pitiful earnings for her little ones, even so was the fight balanced evenly between them till the time came when Jove gave the greater glory to Hector son of Priam, who was first to spring towards the wall of the Achaeans.
-- When he had got close up to them, Hector strode towards them that his blow might gain in force and struck them in the middle, leaning his whole weight against them.
-- Even cowards gain courage from companionship, and we two can hold our own with the bravest.'
-- I would remind you of this that you may learn to leave off being so deceitful, and discover how much you are likely to gain by the embraces out of which you have come here to trick me.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To gain time I answered them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The savage struggled powerfully to gain the point of safety, and, favored by the glancing water, he was already stretch-ing forth an arm to meet the grasp of his companions, when he shot away again with the shirling current, appeared to rise into the air, with uplifted arms and starting eyeballs, and fell, with a sudden plunge, into that deep and yawn-ing abyss over which he hovered.
-- 'The Hurons, if they come, may not gain our position so easily as they think,' he slowly muttered; and propping his head back against the rock, he seemed to await the result in patience, though his gaze was unceasingly bent on the open avenue to their place of retreat.
-- Profiting by the momentary opening, he darted from among the war-riors, and made a desperate, and what seemed to Duncan a final effort to gain the wood.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these re-gions of delight, the peace of his mind was at an end, and his only study was how to gain the affections of the peer-less daughter of Van Tassel.
-- It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only gain a true knowledge of him by inferences from little actions, of which he is unconscious, and from fleeting expressions, which cross his face unknown to him.
-- He spent some months in Papeete to make his plans and gain experience; then, on money borrowed from a friend in France, he bought an island in the Paumotus.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is a promontory," said the sailor; "we must retrace our steps, holding towards the right, and we shall thus gain the mainland."
-- There were still several hours to be occupied, and with one consent Pencroft and Herbert resolved to gain the upper plateau, so as to have a more extended view of the surrounding country.
-- They wished to reach the second cone, and proceeding along the ridge of the spurs seemed to be the best way by which to gain it.
-- Cyrus Harding alone waited with his habitual patience, although his strong mind was exasperated at being confronted with such an inexplicable fact, and he was provoked at himself for allowing a feeling to which he could not give a name, to gain an influence over him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!It's a weary life for an old man a weary, weary life but there is a great end to gain and that I keep before me.'
-- By these means he in time reached the door, where he gave a great cough to attract the dwarf's attention and gain an opportunity of expressing in dumb show, the closest confidence and most inviolable secrecy.
-- I could form no comprehension of his character, unless he were one of those miserable wretches who, having made gain the sole end and object of their lives and having succeeded in amassing great riches, are constantly tortured by the dread of poverty, and beset by fears of loss and ruin.
-- 'I call Heaven to witness that I never played for gain of mine, or love of play; that at every piece I staked, I whispered to myself that orphan's name and called on Heaven to bless the venture; which it never did.
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