outset是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 开端, 开始，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the outset it is quite possible that material wants and the very necessities of existence may engross the poor shipwrecked fellow, just snatched from the waves; but afterward, when he feels himself alone, far from his fellow men, without any hope of seeing country and friends again, what must he think, what must he suffer?
-- This native general commanded at the outset 2,500 warriors, afterward increased to 8,000.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It swung so softly in the outset that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had not the least belief, in the outset of this story, that theunknown was anything but a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and one ofthe line of that ill-fated Prince who occasioned him so muchdifficulty; but after some reflection I began to entertain thequestion whether an attempt, or threat of an attempt, might havebeen twice made to take poor Mr. Dick himself from under myaunt's protection, and whether my aunt, the strength of whose kindfeeling towards him I knew from herself, might have been inducedto pay a price for his peace and quiet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Defeat at the outset would probably upset the whole journey!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only utterance with which he indulged his sorrow, was the frequent exclamation that his brother was gone, alone; that they had been together in the outset of their lives, that they had fallen into misfortune together, that they had kept together through their many years of poverty, that they had remained together to that day; and that his brother was gone alone, alone!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod's weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of the leviathan; at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter almost indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the more special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts which are to follow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There wasn't a obstinater young rascal--' 'It's not of him I want to hear; I've heard enough of him,' said the stranger, stopping Mr. Bumble in the outset of a tirade on the subject of poor Oliver's vices.
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