aim是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 目的； 瞄准vi. (at) 目的在于vt. 把…瞄准，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That is the happiest thing in the world!That is the highest aim of all my wish-es!Then at last would the agonizing restlessness be allayed, which destroys my existence!But it must be far, far away!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But that's just the aim of civilization--to make everything a source of enjoyment."
-- My aim is simply to safeguard my reputation, which is essential for the uninterrupted pursuit of my public duties."
-- She had an aim in life.
-- And it was not the necessity of concealment, not the aim with which the concealment was contrived, but the process of concealment itself which attracted her.
-- He could not help feeling now, since the meaning of this system had become clear to him, that the aim of his energy was a most unworthy one.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They's a whole lot of new things I aim to be seeing!"
-- "Well, sir, I wanted to make certain--" "I admire your caution, but you must understand, Martin, that the basic aim of this Institution is the conquest of disease, not making pretty scientific notes!You MAY have hit on one of the discoveries of a generation; the sort of thing that Mr. McGurk and I are looking for.
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：
-- You must not be left without occupation, and so, work and a definite aim set before you might, I fancy, be very beneficial.'
-- This is a fantastic, gloomy business, a modern case, an in-cident of to-day when the heart of man is troubled, when the phrase is quoted that blood 'renews,' when comfort is preached as the aim of life.
-- Here's 芒聙娄 how shall I tell you? A theory of a sort, the same one by which I for instance consider that a single misdeed is permissible if the principal aim is right, a solitary wrongdoing and hun-dreds of good deeds!It's galling too, of course, for a young man of gifts and overweening pride to know that if he had, for instance, a paltry three thousand, his whole career, his whole future would be differently shaped and yet not to have that three thousand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I came, at last, upon thebare, wide downs near Dover, it relieved the solitary aspect of thescene with hope; and not until I reached that first great aim of myjourney, and actually set foot in the town itself, on the sixth day ofmy flight, did it desert me.
-- Conversing no more now, andwalking at my side, he yielded himself up to the one aim of hisdevoted life, and went on, with that hushed concentration of hisfaculties which would have made his figure solitary in a multitude.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to the great hurry necessitated by the far-gone state of some of the flock, Gabriel missed his aim in one case, and in one only striking wide of the mark, and inflicting a mortal blow at once upon the suffering ewe.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tender-ness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting,gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that thesepleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.
-- Then she wished that something more substantial than cheesecloth was between her skirt and the spittoonthat stood just outside the booth, for the aim of the horsemen with amber streams of tobacco juice was not so unerringas with their long horse pistols.
-- So, we don't aim to let them get that railroad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun.
-- The stranger looked at me again,--still cocking his eye, as if he were expressly taking aim at me with his invisible gun,--and said, "He's a likely young parcel of bones that.
-- I had sadly broken sleep when I got to bed, through thinking of the strange man taking aim at me with his invisible gun, and of the guiltily coarse and common thing it was, to be on secret terms of conspiracy with convicts,--a feature in my low career that I had previously forgotten.
-- said he, making as if he would take aim at me.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereas a traveller's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad, as well as good, example of what they deliver concerning for-374 Gulliver's Travelseign places.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't tell but what you may ha' come wi' some aim of your own, not mindin to what trouble you brought such as the poor lad.
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