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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III THE CAPTAIN'S CHILDRENLORD GLENARVAN'S fortune was enormous, and he spent it entirely in doing good.
-- He appealed to the patriotism of his countrymen, placed his fortune at the service of the cause, built a ship, and manned it with a picked crew, and leaving his children to the care of his old cousin set off to explore the great islands of the Pacific.
-- This was accordingly done, and fortune favored the chief officer, Tom Austin, Wilson, a strong, jovial young fellow, and Mulrady, so good a boxer that he might have entered the lists with Tom Sayers himself.
-- This was a perfect type of the Irish colonist—a man who, weary of the miseries of his country, had come, with his family, to seek fortune and happiness beyond the seas.
-- cried Paganel, "the landlord of this inn won't make his fortune in a place like this.
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：
-- In these days of nouveaux riches it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line.
-- 'Ah, Wilson, I see you have not forgotten the little case in which I had the good fortune to help you?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this cargo arrived I thought my fortune made, for I was surprised with the joy of it; and my stood steward, the captain, had laid out the five pounds, which my friend had sent him for a present for himself, to purchase and bring me over a servant, under bond for six years' service, and would not accept of any consideration, except a little tobacco, which I would have him accept, being of my own produce.
-- And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure - a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to show the like of; beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.
-- Any one would think that in this state of complicated good fortune I was past running any more hazards - and so, indeed, I had been, if other circumstances had concurred; but I was inured to a wandering life, had no family, nor many relations; nor, however rich, had I contracted fresh acquaintance; and though I had sold my estate in the Bra-zils, yet I could not keep that country out of my head, and had a great mind to be upon the wing again; especially I could not resist the strong inclination I had to see my island, and to know if the poor Spaniards were in being there.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age.
-- Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.
-- To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
-- Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing as begging you to give away half your fortune from your own child."
-- As it is, without any addition of mine, they will each have about three thousand pounds on their mother's death a very comfortable fortune for any young woman."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its many and growing commercial opportunities gave it widespread fame, which made of it a giant magnet, drawing to itself, from all quarters, the hopeful and the hopeless--those who had their fortune yet to make and those whose fortunes and affairs had reached a disastrous climax elsewhere.
-- He was irritated a shade because it could not have come about in the throw of fortune for Carrie to be pleased.
-- That little soldier of fortune took her good turn in an easy way.
-- At the time of this particular conversation, which occurred at 5 A.M., that little soldier of fortune was sleeping a rather troubled sleep in her new room, alone.
-- He would promise anything, everything, and trust to fortune to disentangle him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quite a fortune for you.
-- He said it would tell my whole fortune if I wanted it to.
-- Layin' on o' hands is my best holt for cancer and paral-ysis, and sich things; and I k'n tell a fortune pretty good when I've got somebody along to find out the facts for me.
-- This is the speech I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
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