source是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 源， 源泉； 来源， 出处，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, however, he began to think as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too at last, I say, he began to think that the source and secret of this ghostly light might be in the adjoining room, from whence, on further tracing it, it seemed to shine.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But that's just the aim of civilization--to make everything a source of enjoyment."
-- Today, with Levin's reappearance, a fresh source of anxiety arose.
-- The chief source of income on his sister's estate was from the riverside meadows.
-- I've been promising to go for a century," said Anna, to whom lying, alien as it was to her nature, had become not merely simple and natural in society, but a positive source of satisfaction.
-- Sviazhsky was one of those people, always a source of wonder to Levin, whose convictions, very logical though never original, go one way by themselves, while their life, exceedingly definite and firm in its direction, goes its way quite apart and almost always in direct contradiction to their convictions.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an old desire, mysterious in source and long held secret, but suddenly she was sighing: "Sandy, the one thing I want to do, maybe ten years from now, is to see Touraine and Normandy and Carcassonne.
-- Then his research wiped out everything else, made him forget Gottlieb and Leora and all his briskness about studying, made him turn his war work over to others, and confounded night and day in one insane flaming blur as he realized that he had something not unworthy of a Gottlieb, something at the mysterious source of life.
-- (Dear Leora, who was the source of life!Was she now, off there in Penrith Lodge, missing him, lying awake for him?)
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With awasherwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlour-window, dwelling next door, and a Bow-street officer residing overthe way, you may imagine that his society is a source ofconsolation to myself and to Mrs. Micawber.
-- He eyed hergloomily- remorsefully I thought- for an instant; and said, turninghis head towards me, but looking at my feet instead of my face'Weare not likely to encounter soon again; a source of satisfaction to usboth, no doubt, for such meetings as this can never be agreeable.
-- I will onlyadd, to what I have already written of my perseverance at this timeof my life, and of a patient and continuous energy which thenbegan to be matured within me, and which I know to be the strongpart of my character, if it have any strength at all, that there, onlooking back, I find the source of my success.
-- This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour, at six pounds ten perannum, was a source of continual trouble to me.
-- Clasped in my embrace, I held the source of every worthyaspiration I had ever had; the centre of myself, the circle of my life,my own, my wife; my love of whom was founded on a rock!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Weston had, of course, formed a very favourable idea of the young man; and such a pleasing attention was an irresistible proof of his great good sense, and a most welcome addition to every source and every expression of congratulation which her marriage had already secured.
-- Pray excuse me; but suppos-ing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquain-tance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.
-- She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a les-son, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have been thankful to be assured of never seeing him again.
-- He was considering her as the source of all the happiness they offered.
-- When it came to such a pitch as this, she was not able to refrain from a start, or a heavy sigh, or even from walk-ing about the room for a few seconds and the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rick-yard was the source of the fire.
-- One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the Sorrows of Wert-er, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and as-tonishment.
-- The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment!Thanks to the lessons of Felix and the sanguinary laws of man, I had learned now to work mischief.
-- The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement.
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