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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the sake of a hundred roubles to face such a terrible experience?
-- 'For God's sake be calm, don't be frightened!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For the matter o' that, Mas'r Davy,'replied Ham, 'all's told a'most in them words, "Em'ly, Em'ly, forChrist's sake have a woman's heart towards me.
-- David, for the sake of old times, do, please, try to help me!I wantto be a better girl than I am.
-- I found that the street was not as desirable a one as I could havewished it to be, for the sake of Traddles.
-- Had I left the room aminute, when his man told me that "Young Innocence" (so hecalled you, and you may call him "Old Guilt" all the days of yourlife) had set his heart upon her, and she was giddy and liked him,but his master was resolved that no harm should come of it- morefor your sake than for hers- and that that was their business here?
-- Not so much for the sake of principle, I believe, asbecause she happened not to like him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It crossed my mind immediately that you would not regret your friend's leaving Highbury, for the sake of her being settled so well.
-- What!think a farmer, (and with all his sense and all his merit Mr. Martin is nothing more,) a good match for my intimate friend!Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own!I wonder you should think it possible for me to have such feelings.
-- The evening was quiet and conversable, as Mr. Wood-house declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear Isabella, and the little party made two natural divisions; on one side he and his daughter; on the other the two Mr. Knightleys; their subjects totally distinct, or very rarely mixing and Emma only occasionally join-ing in one or the other.
-- 'A man,' said he, 'must have a very good opinion of him-self when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him.
-- For her own sake she could not be rude; and for Harriet's, in the hope that all would yet turn out right, she was even posi-144 Emmatively civil; but it was an effort; especially as something was going on amongst the others, in the most overpowering pe-riod of Mr. Elton's nonsense, which she particularly wished to listen to.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For Heaven's sake don't be so desperate!"
-- "Yes; and he said there was a strong likeness between himself and the other young man, so that sometimes people mistook them ""Liddy, for Heaven's sake stop your talking!"
-- But I hate a feller who'll change his old ancient doctrines for the sake of getting to heaven.
-- I wouldn't stir up the business and get a bad name for the sake of living with her for all that about your play-acting is sure to come out, you know, although you think otherwise.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the sake of a few jewels, to have murdered the son of her benefac-104 Frankensteintor and friend, a child whom she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to love as if it had been her own!I could not consent to the death of any human being, but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men.
-- If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind!But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realized.
-- But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Five weeks passed during which letters, shy, ecstatic, loving, came from Charles in South Carolina telling of hislove, his plans for the future when the war was over, his desire to become a hero for her sake and his worship of hiscommander, Wade Hampton.
-- She was willing, even proud to go without hairpinsand buttons and nice shoes and candy and tea for the sake of the Cause, but she wanted a satin wedding dress.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I asked, more for the sake of saying something than for information.
-- So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
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