advantage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 优点， 长处， 有利条件； 利益， 好处，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the stone) as-sign the following reason: that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the min-eral, which acts upon the stone in the bowels of the earth, and in the sea about six leagues distant from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with the limits of the king's dominions; and it was easy, from the great advantage of such a superior situation, for a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet.
-- This advantage has enabled them to extend their discoveries much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a cat-alogue of ten thousand fixed stars, whereas the largest of ours do not contain above one third part of that number.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I must go, you know, whether I like it or not; and I had better go where I can take with me some advantage of your influence, than where I should lose it altogether.
-- Two or three lamps were rained out and blown out; so, both saw the lightning to advantage as it quivered and zigzagged on the iron tracks.
-- 'Bounderby has the advantage in point of weight; and if anything of a British nature is to come off between us, it may be as well to be in training.'
-- At the same time, in bringing any distress upon the lady who is the subject of the present conversation, or in unfortunately compromising her in any way, or in committing myself by any expression of sentiments towards her, not perfectly reconcilable with in fact with the domestic hearth; or in taking any advantage of her father's being a machine, or of her brother's being a whelp, or of her husband's being a bear; I beg to be allowed to assure you that I have had no particularly evil intentions, but have glided on from one step to another with a smoothness so perfectly diabolical, that I had not the slightest idea the catalogue was half so long until I began to turn it over.
-- 'If that portrait could speak, sir but it has the advantage over the original of not possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others, it would testify, that a long period has elapsed since I first habitually addressed it as the picture of a Noodle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The honest sailor took advantage of the Professor's enthusiasm to double the fare.
-- We were exceedingly well received, and without taking too much advantage of the goodness of these worthy people, I should have liked very much to have rested with them after the fatigues of the journey.
-- It must be said in his favor that we had caught him on a weekday; probably he appeared to greater advantage on the Sunday.
-- Another great advantage with him was that he had the innate sentiment of equilibrium--for he never slipped or failed in his steps.
-- We now had to inaugurate a new kind of locomotion, which would have the advantage of being rapid and not fatiguing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Indeed!I have heard of little enough to my advantage for some time.'
-- The tobacco business round the corner of Horsemonger Lane was carried out in a rural establishment one story high, which had the benefit of the air from the yards of Horsemonger Lane jail, and the advantage of a retired walk under the wall of that pleasant establishment.
-- 'I said to Mother (not that it was necessary, for she would have thought it all for herself), we are practical people, my dear, and we know her story; we see in this unhappy girl some reflection of what was raging in her mother's heart before ever such a creature as this poor thing was in the world; we'll gloss her temper over, Mother, we won't notice it at present, my dear, we'll take advantage of some better disposition in her another time.
-- The stranger, taking advantage of this fitful illumination of his visage, looked intently and wonderingly at him.
-- For this gentleman, when his fortunes changed, had stood at the great advantage of being already prepared for the highest associates, and having little to learn: so much was he indebted to the happy accidents which had made him acquainted with horse-dealing and billiard-marking.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. March told how he had longed to surprise them, and how, when the fine weather came, he had been allowed by his doctor, to take advantage of it, how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
-- Taking advantage of the propitious moment, Meg slipped away and ran down to greet her husband with a smiling face and the little blue bow in her hair which was his especial ad-miration.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But taking advantage of his windward position, he again seized his trumpet, and knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was a Nantucketer and shortly bound home, he loudly hailed "Ahoy there!This is the Pequod, bound round the world!Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean!and this time three years, if I am not at home, tell them to address them to "At that moment the two wakes were fairly crossed, and instantly, then, in accordance with their singular ways, shoals of small harmless fish, that for some days before had been placidly swimming by our side, darted away with what seemed shuddering fins, and ranged themselves fore and aft with the stranger's flanks.
-- There is some advantage in this; because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into the boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub, nearly three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in thickness; for the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which will bear up a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a concentrated one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some time, Mr. Bumble drew Oliver along, without notice or remark; for the beadle carried his head very erect, as a beadle always should: and, it being a windy day, little Oliver was completely enshrouded by the skirts of Mr. Bumble's coat as they blew open, and disclosed to great advantage his flapped waistcoat and drab plush knee-breeches.
-- inquired the Dodger; taking advantage of the next interval of breathlessness on the part of his friend to propound the question.
-- Mr. Bumble taking advantage of the hesitation, and being very cold himself, shut it without permission.
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