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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle had full confidence in finding subterranean resources, but hitherto we had completely failed in so doing.
-- About ten o'clock in the day this state of things became so clear that, finding the change very fatiguing, I was obliged to slacken my pace and finally come to a halt.
-- During the first half hour of our advance, not finding the discovered spring, my feelings of intense suffering appeared to return.
-- Light is so diffuse, so subtle, that it permeates everywhere, and whatever little may remain, the retina of the eye will succeed in finding it.
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：
-- Miss Chatterley came sometimes, with her aristocratic thin face, and triumphed, finding nothing altered.
-- He was finding out: and he was getting things into his grip.
-- So the stupor of sunlight and lagoon salt and sea-bathing and lying on shingle and finding shells and drifting away, away in a gondola, was completed by the pregnancy inside her, another fullness of health, satisfying and stupefying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the echoes were the weaker for imprisonment, and seemed to lag), reminded him with a push of his foot that he had better resume his own darker place.
-- 'Take your version of it,' returned Arthur, finding it left to him to speak, 'from my mother.
-- As it was, Mr Barnacle, finding his gentlemanly residence extremely inconvenient and extremely dear, always laid it, as a public servant, at the door of the country, and adduced it as another instance of the country's parsimony.
-- After a skirmish in the narrow passage, occasioned by the footman's opening the door of the dismal dining-room with confidence, finding some one there with consternation, and backing on the visitor with disorder, the visitor was shut up, pending his announcement, in a close back parlour.
-- Finding the Dog able to do it immensely, made the match, and heavily backed the Dog.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Slipping out, she ran down and, finding a servant, asked if he could get her a carriage.
-- But finding them free and easy, she was so herself, and made a good impression.
-- asked Amy, coming into their room one Saturday afternoon, and finding them get-ting ready to go out with an air of secrecy which excited her curiosity.
-- Jo peeped into his half-open eye, felt his little heart, and finding him stiff and cold, shook her head, and offered her domino box for a coffin.
-- She went off to get her ball, and was a long time finding it among the bushes, but she came back, looking cool and quiet, and waited her turn patiently.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.
-- But as I was going to say, if thou wantest to know what whaling is, as thou tellest ye do, I can put ye in a way of finding it out before ye bind yourself to it, past backing out.
-- Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied.
-- Charley Coffin said it was used for an ice-piercer; for the Narwhale, rising to the surface of the Polar Sea, and finding it sheeted with ice, thrusts his horn up, and so breaks through.
-- Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.
-- But, as it chanced to be immediately under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all over his desk for it, without finding it; and happening in the course of his search to look straight before him, his gaze encountered the pale and terrified face of Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate.
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