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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen.
-- Among them went Menelaus himself, strong in zeal, urging his men to fight; for he longed to avenge the toil and sorrow that he had suffered for the sake of Helen.
-- For her sake Achilles was still grieving, but ere long he was again to join them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For God's sake don't worry me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'All the jungle is thine,' said Bagheera, 'and thou canst kill everything that thou art strong enough to kill; but for the sake of the bull that bought thee thou must never kill or eat any cattle young or old.
-- But for the sake of the Honor of the Pack, a little matter that by being without a leader ye have forgotten, I promise that if ye let the man-cub go to his own place, I will not, when my time comes to die, bare one tooth against ye.
-- Re-member, Shere Khan could never fast, even for the sake of revenge.'
-- 'For the great, the beautiful Rikki-tikki's sake I will stop,' said Darzee.
-- Nagaina spun clear round, forgetting everything for the sake of the one egg.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ay, that does he, and all for the sake of what you call your 'bonhommie' I would venture, if the truth was known, the fellow's grandfather taught the noble science of dancing.'
-- At length, he paused directly in front of Heyward, and rivet-ing his eyes upon those of the other, he said, with a lip that quivered violently: 'Duncan Heyward, I have loved you for the sake of him whose blood is in your veins; I have loved you for your own good qualities; and I have loved you, because I thought you would contribute to the happiness of my child.
-- When death deprived me of my wife I returned to Scotland, enriched by the marriage; and, would you think it, Duncan!the suf-fering angel had remained in the heartless state of celibacy twenty long years, and that for the sake of a man who could forget her!She did more, sir; she overlooked my want of faith, and, all difficulties being now removed, she took me for her husband.'
-- The tomahawk that he had loosened in his belt for the sake of ease, was even suffered to fall from its usual situa-tion to the ground, and his form seemed to sink, like that of a man whose nerves and sinews were suffered to relax for the purpose of rest.
-- 'For God's sake let us profit by this advantage, and increase our distance from the enemy.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not here that Charles Strickland lived in guilty splendour with the unknown charmer for whose sake he had abandoned honour and duty.
-- "For God's sake don't talk to me like that."
-- For your own sake don't go.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To solve this question, Mr Swiveller summoned the handmaid and ascertained that Miss Sophy Wackles had indeed left the letter with her own hands; and that she had come accompanied, for decorum's sake no doubt, by a younger Miss Wackles; and that on learning that Mr Swiveller was at home and being requested to walk upstairs, she was extremely shocked and professed that she would rather die.
-- Help me for her sake I implore you; not for mine; for hers!'
-- It isn't for the sake of food and wages that I've been waiting about so long in hopes to see you.
-- "Granting that," said I (for the sake of argument of course), "a great many young noblemen and gentlemen are scoundrels too!"
-- 'But I would have you know, Miss Edwards,' resumed the governess in a tone of increased severity, 'that you cannot be permitted if it be only for the sake of preserving a proper example and decorum in this establishment that you cannot be permitted, and that you shall not be permitted, to fly in the face of your superiors in this exceedingly gross manner.
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