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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should reproach myself were I to cause a single day's delay."
-- His companions followed exactly in his footprints, lowering their voices to a whisper, as the least sound would disturb the currents of air, and might cause the fall of the masses of snow suspended in the air seven or eight hundred feet above their heads.
-- Not to find an Indian where in general there were only too many, was so unusual that there must be some grave cause for it; but worse still if Harry Grant were a prisoner in the hands of any of those tribes, had he been dragged away with them to the north or south?
-- There was no doubt the Sergeant was right in assigning war then as the cause of the forsaken appearance of the plains.
-- "But what is the cause of this increasing humidity?"
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：
-- His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.
-- 'I am presuming that the cause of his fears came to him across the moor.
-- 'What do you think is the cause of so strange a sound?'
-- Stapleton was the cause of the interruption.
-- And have I not cause for such a feeling?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There,' he said, 'there is the cause of the death of this venerable woman' (which was a lie, because she had been ill for at least two years) 'there she stands before you, and dares not lift her eyes from the ground, because she knows that the finger of God is upon her.
-- Varvara Ardalionovna married Ptitsin this winter, and it was said that the fact of Gania's retirement from busi-ness was the ultimate cause of the marriage, since Gania was now not only unable to support his family, but even re-quired help himself.
-- Colia rushed off at once to investigate the cause of the uproar.
-- It seemed to him that something ex-traordinary, some sudden catastrophe had occurred, and that he was almost the cause of it, because he had read the article aloud.
-- And he himself is the cause of her disgrace.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These, when they grew up, went to Ilius with the Ar-give fleet in the cause of Menelaus and Agamemnon sons of Atreus, and there they both of them fell.
-- I must go home to see my household, my wife and my little son, for I know not whether I shall ever again re-turn to them, or whether the gods will cause me to fill by the hands of the Achaeans.'
-- I say further and lay my saying to your heart vex me no more with this weeping and lamentation, all in the cause of the son of Atre-us.
-- True, King Agamemnon son of Atreus is the cause of our disaster by having insulted the son of Peleus, still this is no reason why we should leave off fighting.
-- Meanwhile the Achaeans were arming throughout the host, and when Minerva had dropped nectar and ambro-sia into Achilles so that no cruel hunger should cause his limbs to fail him, she went back to the house of her mighty father.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but I didn't believe that, be- cause I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me.
-- 'Well, but he WAS the wisest man, anyway; be- cause the widow she told me so, her own self.'
-- Well, I warn't long loosing the whoops down amongst the towheads; and I only tried to chase them a little while, anyway, be- cause it was worse than chasing a Jack-o'-lantern.
-- My nigger had a monstrous easy time, be- cause I warn't used to having anybody do anything for me, but Buck's was on the jump most of the time.
扩展阅读：