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：
-- 'On my honor, no,' exclaimed Duncan, warmly; 'there would have been an abuse of a confided trust, had I taken advantage of my situation for such a purpose.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful rider an apparent advantage in the chase, but just as he had got half way through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave way, and he felt it slipping from under him.
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：
-- The artist has this advantage over the rest of the world, that his friends offer not only their appearance and their character to his satire, but also their work.
-- Mrs. Strickland used her advantage with tact.
-- "I think it's rather an advantage that he doesn't know you.
-- When you are a little older you will doubtless learn the advantage of minding your own business.
-- She took advantage of his confusion to escape, and ran up the stairs to the studio.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Also, everything new must be to the advantage of Cyrus Harding.
-- This reduction is made by subjecting the ore with coal to a high temperature, either by the rapid and easy Catalan method, which has the advantage of transforming the ore into iron in a single operation, or by the blast furnace, which first smelts the ore, then changes it into iron, by carrying away the three to four per cent.
-- Here, on the contrary, we are placed between the Mercy and Lake Grant, an advantage which must not be neglected.
-- The engineer had none of these at his disposal, but he knew that, in Bohemia especially, sulphuric acid is manufactured by very simple means, which have also the advantage of producing it to a superior degree of concentration.
-- The result was less, but the silent arrow had the advantage of not frightening the birds, while the noise of firearms would have dispersed them to all parts of the marsh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity.
-- I took advantage of a moment when she was absent to venture a hint on this point, to which the old man replied that there were few grown persons as trustworthy or as careful as she.
-- Mr Richard Swiveller's apartments were in the neighbourhood of Drury Lane, and in addition to this convenience of situation had the advantage of being over a tobacconist's shop, so that he was enabled to procure a refreshing sneeze at any time by merely stepping out upon the staircase, and was saved the trouble and expense of maintaining a snuff-box.
-- However, Mr Swiveller had Miss Sophy's hand for the first quadrille (country-dances being low, were utterly proscribed) and so gained an advantage over his rival, who sat despondingly in a corner and contemplated the glorious figure of the young lady as she moved through the mazy dance.
-- Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane Wackles, who in all the glory of her curls was holding a flirtation, (as good practice when no better was to be had) with a feeble old gentleman who lodged in the parlour.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now this neatly dressed gentleman, with perfumed beard, was to her not that Nekhludoff whom she had loved, but one of those people who, as opportunity afforded, were taking advantage of such creatures as she, and of whom such creatures as she ought to take advantage as opportunity offers.
-- But he shook it off, and took advantage of the remark to say what he intended.
-- Some of them were able to take advantage of the conditions in the city and became happy proprietors themselves; others were reduced to even greater straits and became even more wretched.
-- "Thank you," said Nekhludoff, and taking advantage of the favorable change in the physician's demeanor, asked him what they thought of Maslova in the hospital.
-- She was sorry that she had missed the opportunity of telling him again that she knew him, and would not yield to him; that she would not allow him to take advantage of her spiritually as he had done corporeally; that she would not allow him to make her the subject of his magnanimity.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a foolish impulse, but the devil begotten of fear and blind anger was ill curbed and still eager to take advantage of my perplexity.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
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