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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ("And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow!")
-- Yes!This awful monster, confined by good fortune to the interior of the earth, was the progenitor of the hideous monster of Africa.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was ayoung Irishman who had already made a large fortune by his plays in America.
-- Their host was a heavy, rather coarse Scotchman who had made a good fortune in Italy before the war, and had been knighted for his ultrapatriotism during the war.
-- His wife was a thin, pale, sharp kind of person with no fortune of her own, and the misfortune of having to regulate her husband's rather sordid amorous exploits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He was a wicked wretch,' said the landlady, 'and well merited what he had the good fortune to escape.
-- A willing, working, soft hearted, not hard-headed fellow, Plornish took his fortune as smoothly as could be expected; but it was a rough one.
-- He left the house miserably enough; and so much more light-headed than ever, that if it had not been his good fortune to be towed away, he might, for the first quarter of an hour, have drifted anywhere.
-- 'Suppose that a man,' so his thoughts ran, 'who had been of age some twenty years or so; who was a diffident man, from the circumstances of his youth; who was rather a grave man, from the tenor of his life; who knew himself to be deficient in many little engaging qualities which he admired in others, from having been long in a distant region, with nothing softening near him; who had no kind sisters to present to her; who had no congenial home to make her known in; who was a stranger in the land; who had not a fortune to compensate, in any measure, for these defects; who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her; what a weakness it would be!'
-- She soothed him; asked him for his forgiveness if she had been, or seemed to have been, undutiful; told him, Heaven knows truly, that she could not honour him more if he were the favourite of Fortune and the whole world acknowledged him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My lord, you scornfully bade me claim your daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a fortune as the Count antonio.
-- Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines!You're pretty enough and good enough already, so I'd have some rich relation leave you a fortune unex-pectedly.
-- By the time the lecture ended and the au-dience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper), and was already deep in the concoction of her story, being unable to decide wheth-er the duel should come before the elopement or after the murder.
-- Amy knew her good points, and made the most of them with the taste and skill which is a fortune to a poor and pretty woman.
-- So taught by love and sorrow, Jo wrote her little stories, and sent them away to make friends for themselves and her, finding it a very charitable world to such humble wanderers, for they were kindly welcomed, and sent home comfortable tokens to their mother, like dutiful children whom good fortune overtakes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, now that fortune had cast in his way a nameless orphan, at whom even the meanest could point the finger of scorn, he retorted on him with interest.
-- 'No,' said Harry; 'to hear you repeat it, if you will--finally repeat it!I will lay at your feet, whatever of station of fortune I may possess; and if you still adhere to your present resolution, will not seek, by word or act, to change it.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.'
-- They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first pri-vate seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.
-- They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother's fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.
-- The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing man-ners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen.'
-- His pride nev-er deserts him; but with the rich he is liberal-minded, just, sincere, rational, honourable, and perhaps agreeable al-lowing something for fortune and figure.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure.
-- I knew that all the ships from Europe, which sailed either to the coast of Guinea or to Brazil, or to the East Indies, made this cape, or those islands; and, in a word, I put the whole of my fortune upon this single point, either that I must meet with some ship or must perish.
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