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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How ill you are!What is the cause of all this?'
-- She weeps continually, and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Cause ef you is, you ain' gwine git much supper," said Jeems.
-- As she stood before the mirror and twisted herself about to get a side view, she thought that there was absolutelynothing about her figure to cause her shame.
-- He would ruin his new gray broadcloth suit, which would cause him to swear horribly in the morning and tellEllen at great length how his horse fell off the bridge in the darkness a palpable lie which would fool no one butwhich would be accepted by all and make him feel very clever.
-- To the outward eye, never had a girl less cause to he miserable.
-- Scarlettwould have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: "How wonderful you are!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moment they sprang there, the girl looked at me with a quick delight in having been the cause of them.
-- It's the cause of much suffering, but it's a consolation to know I posses it, when I wake up in the night."
-- I recalled, too, that the one-eyed gentleman had shuffled forth against the wall when I was the innocent cause of his being turned out.
-- He was arranging his fruit in plates while we talked, which divided his attention, and was the cause of his having made this lapse of a word.
-- I hope one remote cause of its firing may have been my consciousness that if I had known his errand, I should have given him more encouragement.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third time he called out, 'God be with you,' and then thinking he should like to know the cause of dispute between the three men, he went out and asked them why they were fighting so angrily with one another.
-- So they dared no longer hide the truth from her, but said it was the will of Heaven, and that her birth was only the innocent cause of it; but the little girl mourned sadly about it every day, and thought herself bound to do all she could to bring her broth-ers back; and she had neither rest nor ease, till at length one day she stole away, and set out into the wide world to find her brothers, wherever they might be, and free them, what-ever it might cost her.
-- She carried him down, and then with loud screams she hastened to the boy's father, 'Your boy,' cried she, 'has been the cause of a great misfortune!He has thrown my husband down the steps so that he broke his leg.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off un-perceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
-- They ap-prehended my breaking loose; that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine.
-- Our people, who discov-ered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of countenance.
-- The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred 209yards distant from the centre.
-- He told me, 'he had for many years been commander of a ship; and in the sea fight at Actium had the good fortune to break through the enemy's great line of battle, sink three of their capital ships, and take a fourth, which was the sole cause of Antony's flight, and of the victory that ensued; that the youth standing by him, his only son, was killed in the action.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All his proceedings were the result of the nicest and coldest calculation; and it was not without cause that Mrs. Sparsit habitually observed of him, that he was a young man of the steadiest principle she had ever known.
-- The face touched hers, and she knew that there were tears upon it too, and she the cause of them.
-- 'And when I think,' said Rachael through her sobs, 'that the poor lad was so grateful, thinkin you so good to him when I mind that he put his hand over his hard-worken face to hide the tears that you brought up there Oh, I hope you may be sorry, and ha' no bad cause to be it; but I don't know, I don't know!'
-- It was further agreed that he should not present himself to Mr. Sleary, lest his intentions should be mistrusted, or the intelligence of his arrival should cause his son to take flight anew; but, that the communication should be left to Sissy and Louisa to open; and that they should inform the cause of so much misery and disgrace, of his father's being at hand and of the purpose for which they had come.
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