cause是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 原因； 事业， 事件， 奋斗目标v. 使产生， 引起，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：
-- 'Of course, people do get carried away and make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mis-takes are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal external environment.
-- I only wanted to find out what sort of man you are, for so many unscrupulous people have got hold of the progressive cause of late and have so distorted in their own interests everything they touched, that the whole cause has been dragged in the mire.
-- 'On the very day I was sending you that letter!Would you believe it, that awful man seems to have been the cause of her death.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and afraid to move an eye lest she should light onsome look of dislike or scrutiny that would find new cause forcomplaint in mine!What intolerable dullness to sit listening to theticking of the clock; and watching Miss Murdstone's little shinysteel beads as she strung them; and wondering whether she wouldever be married, and if so, to what sort of unhappy man; andcounting the divisions in the moulding on the chimney-piece; andwandering away, with my eyes, to the ceiling, among the curls andcorkscrews in the paper on the wall!
-- Another cause of our being sometimes apart was, that I hadnaturally an interest in going over to Blunderstone, and revisitingthe old familiar scenes of my childhood; while Steerforth, afterbeing there once, had naturally no great interest in going thereagain.
-- Besidesthese, there were sundry immense manuscript Books of Evidencetaken on affidavit, strongly bound, and tied together in massivesets, a set to each cause, as if every cause were a history in ten ortwenty volumes.
-- If I could ever set this right!If I could ever work outhis restoration, as I have so innocently been the cause of hisdecline!'
-- I knew from her own lips that sheregarded herself as the innocent cause of his errors, and as owinghim a great debt she ardently desired to pay.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But from one cause or another, I gave it up in disgust.
-- One might guess twenty things without guessing exactly the right; but I am sure there must be a particular cause for her chusing to come to Highbury instead of going with the Campbells to Ireland.
-- It was natural for him to feel that he had cause to sigh.
-- ' She thought he neither looked nor spoke cheerfully; and the first possible cause for it, suggested by her fears, was, that he had perhaps been communicating his plans to his brother, and was pained by the manner in which they had been received.
-- Without his sanction I could not hope to be listened to again. I spoke; circumstances were in my favour; the late event had softened away his pride, and he was, earlier than I could have anticipated, wholly reconciled and complying; and could say at last, poor man!with a deep sigh, that he wished I might find as much happiness in the marriage state as he had done. I felt that it would be of a different sort. Are you disposed to pity me for what I must have suffered in opening the cause to him, for my suspense while all was at stake? No; do not pity me till I reached Highbury, and saw how ill I had made her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result from capital employed in the production of any movement of a mental nature is sometimes as tremendous as the cause itself is absurdly minute.
-- To an outsider there was not much to complain of in this remark; but to Oak, who knew Bathsheba to be well aware that she herself was the cause of the poor ewe's wound, because she had wounded the ewe's shearer in a still more vital part, it had a sting which the abiding sense of his inferiority to both herself and Boldwood was not calculated to heal.
-- Bathsheba, fun is all very well, but don't go too far, or you may have cause to regret something."
-- Not for worlds now could she give a hint about her misery to him, much less ask him plainly for information on the cause of Fanny's death.
-- It had grown twilight before she was aware, but Boldwood assured her that there was no cause for uneasiness, as the moon would be up in half-an-hour.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said to me quite coolly, without putting himself in a passion, that we might spare ourselves the trouble of going there; that the young lady (he would not call her his daughter) was injuring her cause by importuning him (_importuning!_ once a year, the wretch!
-- In another moment the law student was enlightened as to the cause of their hilarity; he felt the full force of the contrast between his equipage and one of the smartest broughams in Paris; a coachman, with powdered hair, seemed to find it difficult to hold a pair of spirited horses, who stood chafing the bit.
-- He knew the spotless nobleness of the lives buried away in the lonely manor house; he knew what trouble and what joy his request would cause his sisters, and how happy they would be as they talked at the bottom of the orchard of that dear brother of theirs in Paris.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair.
-- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.
-- After days and nights of incredible labour and fa-tigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
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