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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan was obliged to take it to London, for the sake of your father; but I have told you all it contained, word for word, and how we managed to make out the complete sense from the fragments of words left—all except the longitude, unfortunately."
-- "Oh, the name is nothing," said Paganel, who was arguing simply for the sake of arguing.
-- Nor could he find it in his heart to insist, when the Indian, smiling as usual, would not accept the price of his services, pushing back the money, and saying:"For the sake of friendship."
-- Glenarvan understood him and added, "Of course I need not say that it is not a question of giving up our task; but would it perhaps be prudent, for the sake of our companions, to rejoin the DUNCAN at Melbourne, and proceed with our search for traces of Harry Grant on the eastern side.
-- The thought that one of his men was perhaps mortally wounded, abandoned to his fate, calling in vain on those for whose sake he had gone forth, was a torture to him.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For God's sake put such an idea out of your mind,' said he.
-- 'But for God's sake do what I ask you.
-- He has done nothing except for my sake and because I asked him.'
-- That is the whole truth, as I am an honest Christian woman, and you will see that if there is blame in the matter it does not lie with my husband, but with me, for whose sake he has done all that he has.'
-- In truth, it was partly for your own sake that I did it, and it was my appreciation of the danger which you ran which led me to come down and examine the matter for myself.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rogojin, too, seemed to have taken up the conversation with unusual alacrity it appeared that he was still in a considerable state of excitement, if not abso-lutely feverish, and was in real need of someone to talk to for the mere sake of talking, as safety-valve to his agitation.
-- It was a matter of general knowledge that the three girls were very fond of one another, and supported each oth-er in every way; it was even said that the two elder ones had made certain sacrifices for the sake of the idol of the household, Aglaya.
-- It was not for my own sake that I have been so anxious and worried all this time!They say it is all to be settled to-day.
-- 'If you know it so well,' said the prince a little timidly, 'why do you choose all this worry for the sake of the seventy-five thousand, which, you confess, does not cover it?'
-- I might have done it because I doubted if anyone had ever crossed him-self for her sake before.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Juno said to Minerva, 'Alas, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, shall the Ar-gives fly home to their own land over the broad sea, and leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Hel-en, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?
-- Will you leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keep-ing Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was busy one morning upon something of this kind, when I called to Friday, and bid him to go to the sea-shore and see if he could find a tur-tle or a tortoise, a thing which we generally got once a week, for the sake of the eggs as well as the flesh.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.
-- She doubted the sincerity of this assurance no more than he had doubted it himself, and she thought of it for her daughters' sake with satisfaction, though as for herself she was persuaded that a much smaller provision than 7000L would support her in affluence.
-- For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
-- They were cheered by the joy of the servants on their arrival, and each for the sake of the others resolved to appear happy.
-- "A woman of seven and twenty," said Marianne, after pausing a moment, "can never hope to feel or inspire affection again, and if her home be uncomfortable, or her fortune small, I can suppose that she might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am as glad for your sake as for my own."
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