finding是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 发现， 发现物； (常pl. ) 调查/研究结果，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding the door open, I entered.
-- All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself -unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, Abel was the best shot in the Troop, a realsharpshooter who could pick out the eye of a squirrel at seventy-five yards, and, too, he knew all about living outdoors,building fires in the rain, tracking animals and finding water.
-- Charles Hamilton had not risen with the others and, finding himself comparatively alone with Scarlett, he leanedcloser and, with the daring born of new love, whispered a confession.
-- said Scarlett sharply, finding her tongue.
-- One bright summer morning some weeks later, he reappeared with a brightly trimmed hatbox in his hand and,after finding that Scarlett was alone in the house, he opened it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, throwing the door wide open, and finding an obstruction behind it, immediately divined the cause, and applied Tickler to its further investigation.
-- They came in again without finding anything, and then we struck out on the open marshes, through the gate at the side of the churchyard.
-- Wishing to embrace the present occasion of finding out whether in teaching Joe, I should have to begin quite at the beginning, I said, "Ah!But read the rest, Jo."
-- I calculated the consequences of replying "Four Hundred Pound," and finding them against me, went as near the answer as I could--which was somewhere about eightpence off.
-- Finding that he could not see us very well from where he sat, he got up, and threw one leg over the back of a chair and leaned upon it; thus having one foot on the seat of the chair, and one foot on the ground.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' said the other, 'mine is a golden trade; a good 15grinder never puts his hand into his pocket without finding money in it but where did you get that beautiful goose?'
-- Finding everything still, he marched into the kitchen, and groped about till he found a match in order to light a candle; and then, espying the glittering fi-ery eyes of the cat, he mistook them for live coals, and held the match to them to light it.
-- The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the en-chantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks.
-- The king came in the morning, and, finding all he wanted, was forced to keep his word; so he married the miller's daughter, and she really became queen.
-- So he left her by herself; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her in pieces, he felt as if a great weight were tak-en off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her but to leave her to her fate, with the chance of someone finding and saving her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding it was likely to overblow, we took in our sprit-sail, and stood by to hand the fore-sail; but making foul weather, we looked the guns were all fast, and handed the mizen.
-- My master, finding how profitable I was likely to be, re-solved to carry me to the most considerable cities of the kingdom.
-- The ladders were now applied, and mounted by several men; which the monkey observing, and finding himself al-most encompassed, not being able to make speed enough 150 Gulliver's Travelswith his three legs, let me drop on a ridge tile, and made his escape.
-- That upon com-ing nearer, and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they had seen a swimming house.
-- I felt some little satisfaction in finding myself on firm ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should have no power of keeping you against his wish, and he would have no difficulty, at any time, in finding Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.
-- Mr. Bounderby, who was always more or less like a Wind, finding something in his way here, began to blow at it directly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had, however, an ample supply of gourds, and my uncle counted on finding water, and enough to fill them, as soon as we commenced our downward journey.
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