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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to this case, if you will have scratches, we say that, for anything we know, you may have accounted for them, assuming for the sake of argument that you have not invented them?"
-- "For whose sake would you reveal the secret?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I brought her with me for the sake of her company on the road,' said she; 'pray give the girl some work to do, that she may not be idle.'
-- The king was sorry that for the sake of one he should lose all his faith-ful servants, wished that he had never set eyes on the tailor, and would willingly have been rid of him again.
-- The miser cried out, 'Oh, no!no!for heaven's sake don't listen to him!don't listen to him!'
-- At last the third also came with the like intent, and the others screamed out: 'Keep away; for goodness' sake keep away!'
-- Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They provided me with carriages and servants, and bore my charges to Yedo; where I was admitted to an audience, and delivered my letter, which was opened with great ceremony, and explained to the Emperor by an interpreter, who then gave me notice, by his majesty's order, 'that I should signify my request, and, whatever it were, it should be granted, for 273the sake of his royal brother of Luggnagg.'
-- To this I added another petition, 'that for the sake of my patron the king of Luggnagg, his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed on my countrymen, of trampling upon the cru-cifix: because I had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes, without any intention of trading.'
-- y master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what Mmotives could incite this race of lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary themselves, and engage in a confed-eracy of injustice, merely for the sake of injuring their fellow-animals; neither could he comprehend what I meant in saying, they did it for hire.
-- I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, 'that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobil-ity, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years 326 Gulliver's Travelswill permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odi-ous diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise.
-- Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller, I here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own specula-tions in my little garden at Redriff; to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms; to instruct the Yahoos of my own family, is far as I shall find them docible animals; to behold my figure often in aglass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tol-erate the sight of a human creature; to lament the brutality to Houyhnhnms in my own country, but always treat their persons with respect, for the sake of my noble master, his family, his friends, and the whole Houyhnhnm race, whom these of ours have the honour to resemble in all their linea-ments, however their intellectuals came to degenerate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the first he had sought to conciliate that gentleman, for the sake of the deserted girl.
-- He had spoken to Rachael only last night, it was true, and had walked with her a little way; but he had his new misfortune on him, in which no one else could give him a moment's relief, and, for the sake of it, and because he knew himself to want that softening of his anger which no voice but hers could effect, he felt he might so far disregard what she had said as to wait for her again.
-- The deaf serving-woman was rumoured to be wealthy; and a saying had for years gone about among the lower orders of Coketown, that she would be murdered some night when the Bank was shut, for the sake of her money.
-- Let me entreat you, for your own sake and for hers, to be more quiet.'
-- I ha' read on 't in the public petition, as onny one may read, fro' the men that works in pits, in which they ha' pray'n and pray'n the lawmakers for Christ's sake not to let their work be murder to 'em, but to spare 'em for th' wives and children that they loves as well as gentlefok loves theirs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the sake of poring over this musty old piece of parchment, my uncle forbore to share our meal.
-- But--for annihilation.heaven's sake "Keep--do you up-- yourcontinue courage,"--to speak said-- myto me!"uncle.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was always saying: go to a good instructive film, but do for goodness sake keep away from these melodramas and love films.
-- I live for your sake and your future.
-- 'For mercy's sake don't brag about your experiences!'
-- 'And is it for the child's sake you must go?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For goodness sake content yourself with Pet.'
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