sake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缘故; 目的，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：
-- 'I'll drink his health for your sake and the Day's,' said Mrs Cratchit, 'not for his.
-- 'I certainly shan't hold my hand, when I can get anything in it by reaching it out, for the sake of such a man as he was, I promise you, Joe,' returned the woman coolly.
-- Now, it wasn't,' cried Bob,' for the sake of anything he might be able to do for us, so much as for his kind way, that this was quite delightful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having 64 A tale of two citiesnever for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it!Weep for her, then, and for me!Good gentlemen, thank God!I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart.
-- 'For gracious sake say something else besides 'indeed,' or you'll fidget me to death,' said Miss Pross: whose character (dissociated from stature) was shortness.
-- We will say, to put a case and for the sake of illustration, that he had been used, in his bad time, 288 A tale of two citiesto work at a little forge.
-- As to the uncertain travelling, the long journey, and the winter weather, if I were not prepared to submit myself to a few inconveniences for the sake of Tellson's, after all these years, who ought to be?'
-- I wish for your sake Mr. Barsad was not a Sheep of the Prisons.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Thou would'st not have an honorable Prince!Thou could'st not prize the rose and the nightingale, but thou wast ready to kiss the swine-herd for the sake of a trumpery plaything.
-- Many persons now went to the wood, for the sake of getting the place, but one only returned with a sort of ex-planation; for nobody went far enough, that one not further than the others.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, countess, you really must take me, for pity's sake do take me to see them!I have never seen anything extraordinary, though I am always on the lookout for it everywhere," said Vronsky, smiling.
-- he said to her, for the sake of saying something.
-- Konstantin said to her, for the sake of saying something.
-- "Anna, for God's sake don't speak like that!"
-- As in former years, at the beginning of the spring he had gone to a foreign watering-place for the sake of his health, deranged by the winter's work that every year grew heavier.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing.
-- So great had been the expense of his tour that, even had he won, it would not have enriched him; and it is probable that he had not sought to enrich himself, being a man who rather laid wagers for honour's sake than for the stake proposed.
-- He deducted, however, from Passepartout's share the cost of the gas which had burned in his room for nineteen hundred and twenty hours, for the sake of regularity.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He grew interested in her not for the sake of disciplining Leora but for her own rosy sweetness.
-- Outside, Schlemihl pressed down the button of the motor horn and held it, producing a demanding, infuriating yawp which made Martin cry, "For God's sake go out and make 'em quit that, will you, and let me alone!I've got to work, I told you!"
-- "Say, Slim," Terry blurted, "just wanted to butt in and suggest, now for St. Gottlieb's sake keep your phage notes complete and up- to-date, and keep 'em in ink!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And all that, let me tell you, she has simply made up for herself, and not simply out of wantonness, for the sake of bragging; no, she believes it all herself, she amuses herself with her own fancies, upon my word she does!And I don't blame her for it, no, I don't blame her!芒聙娄 Six days ago when I brought her my first earnings in full twenty-three roubles forty co-pecks altogether she called me her poppet: 'poppet,' said she, 'my little poppet.'
-- It's all Rodya, precious Rodya, her first born!For such a son who would not sacrifice such a daughter!Oh, loving, over-partial hearts!Why, for his sake we would not shrink even from Sonia's fate.
-- To go into the street, to go a walk for appearance' sake was revolting; to go back to his room, even more revolting.
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