purse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 钱包，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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as your purse is quite empty at the present moment, you must allow me to press these twenty-five roubles upon your acceptance, as something to begin with.
-- I had my purse in my pocket.
-- The pocket was empty the purse gone, and not a trace to be found!'
-- 'Very simply indeed!I found it under the chair upon which my coat had hung; so that it is clear the purse simply fell out of the pocket and on to the floor!'
-- 'Oh, good heavens!I mean, what did the general say when the purse turned up under the chair?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the man pounded, and as he ran he chinked like a well-filled purse that is tossed to and fro.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man replied by shaking the little purse in his eager hand, and then throwing it down upon the table, and gathering up the cards as a miser would clutch at gold.
-- Nell's little purse was exhausted; but although it lay empty by his side, and the other players had now risen from the table, the old man sat poring over the cards, dealing them as they had been dealt before, and turning up the different hands to see what each man would have held if they had still been playing.
-- Every evening, and often in the day-time too, he was absent, alone; and although she well knew where he went, and why too well from the constant drain upon her scanty purse and from his haggard looks he evaded all inquiry, maintained a strict reserve, and even shunned her presence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was still jogging about the room, with the purse clutched in his hand, when a great cheering arose in the yard.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She soon became interested in her work, for her emaci-ated purse grew stout, and the little hoard she was making to take Beth to the mountains next summer grew slowly but surely as the weeks passed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She fumbled her purse which contained the address slip.
-- Such a purse had never been carried by any one attentive to her.
-- He wrote it carefully down and got out the purse again.
-- She reached in her purse and took out one of the bills.
-- He bought her a purse for one thing, and a pair of gloves for another, and let her buy the stockings.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, and then take and lead him all around the back alleys and ev-erywheres in the dark, and then fetch him here in the canoe, in a roundabout way amongst the islands, and search him and take his chalk away from him, and don't give it back to him till you get him back to the village, or else he will chalk this raft so he can find it again.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as he was dressed, he put his hands in his pockets and pulled out a little leather purse on which were written the following words: The Fairy with Azure Hair returns fifty pennies to her dear Pinocchio with many thanks for his kind heart.
-- The Marionette opened the purse to find the money, and behold--there were fifty gold coins!
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