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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as the Jew, looking back, waved his hand to intimate that he preferred being alone; and, moreover, as the little man could not very easily disengage himself from the chair; the sign of the Cripples was, for a time, bereft of the advantage of Mr. Lively's presence.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend, and introduce Mr. Bingley to HER.'
-- The ladies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper win-dow that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse.
-- 'Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world.
-- 'I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places.
-- When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself and yet what is there so very laudable in a pre-cipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This captain taking a fancy to my conversation, which was not at all disagreeable at that time, hearing me say I had a mind to see the world, told me if I would go the voyage with him I should be at no expense; I should be his messmate and his companion; and if I could carry anything with me, I should have all the advantage of it that the trade would ad-mit; and perhaps I might meet with some encouragement.
-- I consulted several things in my situation, which I found would he proper for me: 1st, health and fresh water, I just now mentioned; 2ndly, shelter from the heat of the sun; 3rdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether man or beast; 4thly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.
-- Then I wanted a mill to grind it sieves to dress it, yeast and salt to make it into bread, and an oven to bake it; but all these things I did without, as shall be observed; and yet the corn was an inestimable comfort and advantage to me too.
-- As it was, I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons; and if I had had the drawer full of diamonds, it had been the same case - they had been of no manner of value to me, because of no use.
-- CHAPTER XII - A CAVE RETREATWHILE this was doing, I was not altogether careless of my other affairs; for I had a great concern upon me for my little herd of goats: they were not only a ready supply to me on ev-ery occasion, and began to be sufficient for me, without the expense of powder and shot, but also without the fatigue of hunting after the wild ones; and I was loath to lose the advantage of them, and to have them all to nurse up over again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led to imprudence.
-- The situation of Barton, in a county so far distant from Sussex as Devonshire, which, but a few hours before, would have been a sufficient objection to outweigh every possible advantage belonging to the place, was now its first recommendation.
-- It was very early in September; the season was fine, and from first seeing the place under the advantage of good weather, they received an impression in its favour which was of material service in recommending it to their lasting approbation.
-- Lady Middleton had the advantage of being able to spoil her children all the year round, while Sir John's independent employments were in existence only half the time.
-- She was remarkably quick in the discovery of attachments, and had enjoyed the advantage of raising the blushes and the vanity of many a young lady by insinuations of her power over such a young man; and this kind of discernment enabled her soon after her arrival at Barton decisively to pronounce that Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared to great advantage behind the white napery and silver platters of the table and displaying his arms with a knife and fork.
-- She was too calculating to jeopardize any advantage she might gain in the way of information by fruitless clamour.
-- It was his wont to sit this way in every theatre--to make his personality as inconspicuous as possible where it would be no advantage to him to have it otherwise.
-- He was like every man who has had the advantage of practice and knows he has sympathy.
-- Mrs. Hurstwood, on the contrary, had decided not to lose her advantage by inaction.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I couldn't see no advantage in go- ing where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it.
-- I went out in the woods and turned it over in my mind a long time, but I couldn't see no advantage about it except for the other peo- ple; so at last I reckoned I wouldn't worry about it any more, but just let it go.
-- So I let it go at that, though I couldn't see no advantage in my representing a prisoner if I got to set down and chaw over a lot of gold-leaf distinctions like that every time I see a chance to hog a watermelon.
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