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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not know how long it would be before I should become visible from that cause also.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I saw, without understanding, the cause of my phantom, a ruddy glow that came and danced and went upon the wall opposite.
-- In an empty hut I feasted on some specked and half-decayed fruit; and then after I had propped some branches and sticks about the opening, and placed myself with my face towards it and my hand upon my revolver, the exhaustion of the last thirty hours claimed its own, and I fell into a light slumber, hop-ing that the flimsy barricade I had erected would cause sufficient noise in its removal to save me from surprise.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave ap-pellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to them-selves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.
-- The reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause of his being selected to command the American armies at a later day.
-- Heyward, perceiving that the stubborn adherence of the scout to the cause of his friends the Delawares, or Mohicans, for they were branches of the same numerous people, was likely to prolong a useless discussion, changed the subject.
-- In such cases he made use of English, broken and imperfect, but sufficiently intelligible, and which he rendered so mild and musical, by his deep, guttural voice, that it never failed to cause both ladies to look up in admiration and astonishment.
-- The first syllables he uttered had the effect to cause his listeners to raise themselves in at-titudes of respectful attention.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first he thought that Dirk was the cause of the disaster, and he was needlessly brusque with him.
-- The sight of him brought back to me all the horror which I was not unwilling to forget, and I felt in me a sudden repulsion for the cause of it.
-- That was perhaps the cause of the peculiar quality of Dirk's love for his wife.
-- He had a greater cause of discontent with life than this.
-- He could as little escape her as the cause can escape the effect.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that evening, before sleeping, the new colonists talked of their absent country; they spoke of the terrible war which stained it with blood; they could not doubt that the South would soon be subdued, and that the cause of the North, the cause of justice, would triumph, thanks to Grant, thanks to Lincoln!
-- This is the cause of the wealth of the mines in Great Britain, where the coal aids the manufacture of the metal extracted from the same soil at the same time as itself.
-- Generally, nitro-glycerine is ignited by caps of fulminate, which in bursting cause the explosion.
-- This substance, pressed in a cartridge, and introduced among the nitro-glycerine, would burst by means of a fuse, and cause the explosion.
-- During this period of cold, Cyrus Harding had great cause to congratulate himself on having brought to Granite House the little stream of water from Lake Grant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man showed by his face that he plainly understood the cause of my hesitation, but he merely signed to me with an inclination of the head to pass out of the room before him, and remained silent.
-- 'And yet,' said the old man dropping his voice and speaking like one who thinks aloud, 'how poor we are, and what a life it is!The cause is a young child's guiltless of all harm or wrong, but nothing goes well with it!Hope and patience, hope and patience!'
-- On the other hand, to exaggerate the captivating qualities of her son-in-law would be to weaken the cause of revolt, in which all her energies were deeply engaged.
-- Then, and not until then, Daniel Quilp himself, the cause and occasion of all this clamour, was observed to be in the room, looking on and listening with profound attention.
-- Not caring to venture within range of such missles again, the boy discreetly sent in his stead the first cause of the interruption, who now presented herself at the door.
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