fortune是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 运气； 命运； 财产； 财富，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hm 芒聙娄 so it is finally settled; you have determined to marry a sensible business man, Avdotya Romanovna, one who has a fortune (has already made his fortune, that is so much more solid and impressive) a man who holds two government posts and who shares the ideas of our most rising generation, as mother writes, and who seems to be kind, as Dounia herself observes.
-- 'Shall I tell your fortune for the journey, Arkady Ivanovitch?'
-- He was, in fact, determined to try his fortune in Petersburg.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we got into the street (which was strange enough to me), andsmelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailorswalking about, and the carts jingling up and down over the stones, 35I felt that I had done so busy a place an injustice; and said as muchto Peggotty, who heard my expressions of delight with greatcomplacency, and told me it was well known (I suppose to thosewho had the good fortune to be born Bloaters) that Yarmouth was,upon the whole, the finest place in the universe.
-- After I said myprayers, and the candle had burnt out, I remember how I still satlooking at the moonlight on the water, as if I could hope to readmy fortune in it, as in a bright book; or to see my mother with herchild, coming from heaven, along that shining path, to look uponme as she had looked when I last saw her sweet face.
-- 'That is because you are good; notbecause I am!Oh, my dear, it might have been a better fortune foryou, if you had been fond of some one else- of some one steadierand much worthier than me, who was all bound up in you, andnever vain and changeable like me!'
-- But, by good fortune the greenhouse was not far off, and thesewords brought us to it.
-- His old simple characterand good-temper, and something of his old unlucky fortune also, Ithought, smiled at me in the smile with which he made thisexplanation.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her fortune though her fortune bore no pro-portion to the family-estate was not to be dissuaded from the marriage, and it took place, to the infinite mortification of Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, who threw her off with due deco-rum.
-- He had only himself to please in his choice: his fortune was his own; for as to Frank, it was more than being tacitly brought up as his uncle's heir, it had become so avowed an 18 Emmaadoption as to have him assume the name of Churchill on coming of age.
-- Mr. Martin, I imagine, has his fortune entirely to make cannot be at all beforehand with the world.
-- The very want of such equality might prevent his perception of it; but he must know that in fortune and con-sequence she was greatly his superior.
-- To provide for her otherwise was out of Colonel Campbell's power; for though his income, by pay and appointments, was handsome, his fortune was moderate and must be all his daughter's; but, by giving her an education, he hoped to be supplying the means of respectable subsistence here-after.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He played on with spirit, and in half an hour had earned in pence what was a small fortune to a destitute man.
-- "But Charlotte," continued Coggan "not a word of the sort would Charlotte allow, nor the smallest item of taking in vain.... Ay, poor Charlotte, I wonder if she had the good fortune to get into Heaven when 'a died!But 'a was never much in luck's way, and perhaps 'a went downwards after all, poor soul."
-- It was all the fortune that ever I inherited.
-- "Gabriel!What in the name of fortune did you pretend to be Laban for?"
-- "Yes, that's the ill fortune o' it," said Gabriel, in a distressed tone.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She attributed the change not so much to a gradual diminution of fortune as to a spiteful wish to annoy his hostess.
-- It was easy, of course, to find out whether Goriot had really been a vermicelli manufacturer; the amount of his fortune was readily discoverable; but the old people, who were most inquisitive as to his concerns, never went beyond the limits of the Quarter, and lived in the lodging-house much as oysters cling to a rock.
-- His father and mother, his two brothers and two sisters, with an aged aunt, whose whole fortune consisted in annuities, lived on the little estate of Rastignac.
-- He was in the secret of the famous scarcity of grain, and laid the foundation of his fortune in those days by selling flour for ten times its cost.
-- For twenty years he had given his whole heart to them; then, one day, he gave them all his fortune too.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But just at that time I inherited the fortune of my cousin, and my thoughts were turned into the channel of their earlier bent.
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