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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were an abundant source of nourishing food to our travelers.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am rather bothered at having disturbed you; that's all I care about. ' 'Look here, prince,' said the general, with a cordial smile, 'if you really are the sort of man you appear to be, it may be a source of great pleasure to us to make your better ac-quaintance; but, you see, I am a very busy man, and have to be perpetually sitting here and signing papers, or off to see his excellency, or to my department, or somewhere; so that though I should be glad to see more of people, nice peo-ple you see, I however, I am sure you are so well brought up that you will see at once, and but how old are you, prince?'
-- The idea alone that she could in any way serve them, would be to her both a pride and a source of real happiness.
-- When he signed those notes of hand,he never dreamt that they would be a source of future trouble.
-- Lebedeff, tell me, is the sun the source of life?
-- 'Do you mean to say,' cried Gania, from the other corner, 'do you mean to say that railways are accursed inventions, that they are a source of ruin to humanity, a poison poured upon the earth to corrupt the springs of life?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such times the slightest disturbance, the entry of a stranger into the room, is a source of excruciating annoyance to me it is well these things should be understood."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After I had breakfasted with Montgomery, he took me across the island to see the fumarole and the source of the hot spring into whose scalding waters I had blundered on the previous day.
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：
-- All those eyes, which had been curiously studying the lin- eaments of the sage, as the source of their own intelligence, turned on the instant, and were now bent in secret admira- tion on the erect, agile, and faultless person of the captive.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stream here made a bend towards the south, but this detour was probab ly not prolonged for the river must have its source in the mountain, and be supplied by the melting of the snow which covered the sides of the central cone.
-- "I see a little river which runs into it," said Herbert, pointing out a narrow stream, which evidently took its source somewhere in the west.
-- They found the vein above ground, near the source of the creek, at the foot of one of the northeastern spurs.
-- A little trench, made below their level, produced this result; and this derivation from a pure and inexhaustible source yielded twenty-five or thirty gallons a day.
-- To avoid it the colonists had been obliged to make a considerable detour, by climbing up to the source of the Red Creek.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the precious scheme to make your fortune, was it; this was the secret certain source of wealth in which I was to have sunk my money (if I had been the fool you took me for); this was your inexhaustible mine of gold, your El Dorado, eh?'
-- 'Marrying as his mother and I did, late in life, sir, after waiting for a great many years, until we were well enough off coming together when we were no longer young, and then being blessed with one child who has always been dutiful and affectionate why, it's a source of great happiness to us both, sir.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing; but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
-- Thus a circumstance occurred, while the sisters were together in their own room after breakfast, which sunk the heart of Mrs. Jennings still lower in her estimation; because, through her own weakness, it chanced to prove a source of fresh pain to herself, though Mrs. Jennings was governed in it by an impulse of the utmost goodwill.
-- The attachment, from which against honour, against feeling, against every better interest he had outwardly torn himself, now, when no longer allowable, governed every thought; and the connection, for the sake of which he had, with little scruple, left her sister to misery, was likely to prove a source of unhappiness to himself of a far more incurable nature.
-- Marianne was restored to her from a danger in which, as she now began to feel, her own mistaken judgment in encouraging the unfortunate attachment to Willoughby, had contributed to place her; and in her recovery she had yet another source of joy unthought of by Elinor.
-- By that time, Marianne was rather better, and her mother leaving her to the care of Margaret and the maid, returned to Elinor, who, though still much disordered, had so far recovered the use of her reason and voice as to be just beginning an inquiry of Thomas, as to the source of his intelligence.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When dining, it was a source of keen satisfaction to him to know that Joseph Jefferson was wont to come to this same place, or that Henry E. Dixie, a well-known performer of the day, was then only a few tables off.
-- At the same time, she would not delay to inflict any injury, big or little, which would wound the object of her revenge and still leave him uncertain as to the source of the evil.
-- The fact that he had in a measure mollified Carrie was a source of satisfaction to Hurstwood, but it furnished only the most temporary relief.
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