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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, then, they said it was two years now since they were cast away, and there was little chance of finding them.
-- Finding all his efforts baffled by the Major's indifference, the mysterious passenger seized his telescope, drew it out to its fullest extent, about four feet, and began gazing at the horizon, standing motionless with his legs wide apart.
-- Everybody was full of hope, for in this search for Captain Grant, each day seemed to increase the probability of finding him.
-- The CATAPEZ, after vain attempts at finding an opening, dismounted, crossed his arms, and waited.
-- Paganel was rather disconcerted at finding no way out to the other side of the chain, and laid his account with having to undergo great fatigue before the topmost peaks of the Andes could be reached, for their mean height is between eleven and twelve thousand six hundred feet.
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：
-- At twelve o'clock Barrymore, finding the hall door still open, became alarmed, and, lighting a lantern, went in search of his master.
-- Had the prosaic finding of the coroner not finally put an end to the romantic stories which have been whispered in connection with the affair, it might have been difficult to find a tenant for Baskerville Hall.
-- The odds are enormously against your finding it.
-- I had no difficulty in finding her rooms, which were central and well appointed.
-- I could only check it by finding if she had, indeed, instituted divorce proceedings against her husband at or about the time of the tragedy.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince asked his way of passers-by, and finding that he was a couple of miles or so from his destination, he determined to take a droshky.
-- It had struck him as long ago as last spring that he ought to be finding a good match for Nas-tasia; for instance, some respectable and reasonable young fellow serving in a government office in another part of the country.
-- But while the prince was getting his pen ready, finding a page, and making his preparations to write, Gania came up to the fireplace where Aglaya was standing, to the right of the prince, and in trem-bling, broken accents said, almost in her ear: 'One word, just one word from you, and I'm saved.'
-- He declared that he had been busy finding money for the latter ever since, and up to nine o'clock, Rogojin having declared that he must absolutely have a hundred thousand roubles by the evening.
-- 'I don't know for certain, and I'm sorry to say I haven't had an opportunity of finding out all day; but I received a letter from Moscow, while I was in Switzerland, from a Mr. Salaskin, and he acquaints me with the fact that I am entitled to a very large inheritance.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She told about me and Tom Sawyer finding the six thousand dollars (only she got it ten) and all about pap and what a hard lot he was, and what a hard lot I was, and at last she got down to where I was murdered.
-- It would only look like we was finding fault, and that would be bound to fetch more bad luck and keep on fetching it, too, till we knowed enough to keep still.
-- In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a 'divining-rod,' 'dissipating witch spells,' and so on.
-- The man that had a-holt of me was very good to me, and kept saying he had a boy about as big as me that died last year, and he was sorry to see a boy in such a dangerous fix; and when they was all took by surprise by finding the gold, and made a rush for the coffin, he lets go of me and whis- pers, 'Heel it now, or they'll hang ye, sure!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as his stomach kept grumbling more than ever and he had nothing to quiet it with, he thought of going out for a walk to the near-by village, in the hope of finding some charitable person who might give him a bit of bread.
-- Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free!Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
-- A little because of the sharp pain in his legs, a little because of fright at finding himself alone in the darkness of the field, the Marionette was about to faint, when he saw a tiny Glowworm flickering by.
-- Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
-- The idea of finding himself in so lonesome a spot made him so sad that he was about to cry, but just then he saw a big Fish swimming near-by, with his head far out of the water.
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