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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.
-- For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts, when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth into the sea, for he knew that for his sake this great tempest was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to save the ship.
-- With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing, fights 'gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea's landlessness again; for refuge's sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!
-- Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt above all for Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boat's crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads of the owners of the Pequod.
-- Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin, one of these sharks almost took poor Queequeg's hand off, when he tried to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Stop, stop!don't take him away!For Heaven's sake stop a moment!'
-- This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one, that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting--to put entirely out of the question, a very thick coating of powder.
-- 'I'm glad to hear it,' said Sikes, looking grimly at Oliver; 'for the sake of his young carcase: as would otherways have suffered for it.
-- 'Oh!for God's sake let me go!'
-- I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion; and I wish I were a young fellow, that I might avail myself, on the spot, of such a favourable opportunity for doing so, as the present.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, for the sake of saying something that might turn her mother's thoughts, now asked her if Charlotte Lu-cas had been at Longbourn since HER coming away.
-- How anyone could have the conscience to entail away an estate from one's own daughters, I cannot under-stand; and all for the sake of Mr. Collins too!Why should HE have it more than anybody else?'
-- You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the mean-ing of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibil-ity of danger security for happiness.'
-- Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and though determined not to slacken as a corre-spondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.
-- She examined into their em-ployments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently; found fault with the arrangement of the furni-ture; or detected the housemaid in negligence; and if she accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is enough that she was inspired to be something which was not what the rest were, and to be that something, different and laborious, for the sake of the rest.
-- He turned slowly down Aldersgate Street, and was pondering his way along towards Saint Paul's, purposing to come into one of the great thoroughfares for the sake of their light and life, when a crowd of people flocked towards him on the same pavement, and he stood aside against a shop to let them pass.
-- Affery immediately replied, 'For goodness sake don't ask me nothing, Arthur!I am frightened out of one half of my life, and dreamed out of the other.
-- Flora was so sorry to have kept her waiting, and good gracious why did she sit out there in the cold when she had expected to find her by the fire reading the paper, and hadn't that heedless girl given her the message then, and had she really been in her bonnet all this time, and pray for goodness sake let Flora take it off!Flora taking it off in the best-natured manner in the world, was so struck with the face disclosed, that she said, 'Why, what a good little thing you are, my dear!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo never went back to Aunt March, for the old lady took such a fancy to AMy that she bribed her with the offer of drawing lessons from one of the best teachers going, and for the sake of this advantage, Amy would have served a far harder mistress.
-- 'But you will, for the sake of others, if not for your own.
-- I'll buy you quarts if you want it, but for heaven's sake don't have hysterics, for I've brought Jack Scott home to dinner, and...' John got no further, for Meg cast him off, and clasped her hands with a tragic gesture as she fell into a chair, ex-claiming in a tone of mingled indignation, reproach, and dismay... 'A man to dinner, and everything in a mess!John Brooke, how could you do such a thing?'
-- Mrs. March shook her head, and did not take so roman-tic a view of the case, but looked grave, and repeated her opinion that for Laurie's sake Jo should go away for a time.
-- I've gone blindly on, hurting myself and other people, for the sake of mon-ey.
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