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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stranger though he was, he knew no fear on finding himself single-handed among so many, but chal-lenged them to contests of all kinds, and in each one of them was at once victorious, so mightily did Minerva help him.
-- Apollo, son of Jove, replied, 'Let us incite great Hector to challenge some one of the Danaans in single combat; on this the Achaeans will be shamed into finding a man who will fight him.'
-- If the best men at the ships were being cho-sen to go on an ambush and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of fears, and keeps shifting his weight first on one knee and then on the other; his heart beats fast as he thinks of death, and one can hear the chat-tering of his teeth; whereas the brave man will not change colour nor be frightened on finding himself in ambush, but is all the time longing to go into action if the best men were being chosen for such a service, no one could make light of your courage nor feats of arms.
-- Hard by the Myrmidons held his snorting steeds, who were wild with panic at finding themselves deserted by their lords.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bunting flushed slightly and brought his face nearer, apparently finding some difficulty with his glasses.
-- I had a little trouble finding it again.
-- "I went into one of the sitting-rooms and waited until they came down, still speculating and argumentative, all a little disappointed at finding no 'horrors,' and all a little puzzled how they stood legally towards me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went straight into the water without a min-ute's hesitation, wading up the creek, and presently finding myself kneedeep in a little stream.
-- THE FINDING OF MOREAU.
-- I went on rummaging among them, as well as a one-armed man could, finding this convenient thing and that, and putting them aside for to-morrow's launch.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us go on,' and Kaa seemed to pour himself along the ground, finding the shortest road with his steady eyes, and keeping to it.
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：
-- When, therefore, intelligence was received at the fort which covered the southern termination of the portage be-tween the Hudson and the lakes, that Montcalm had been seen moving up the Champlain, with an army 'numerous as the leaves on the trees,' its truth was admitted with more of the craven reluctance of fear than with the stern joy that a warrior should feel, in finding an enemy within reach of his blow.
-- During his short conference, Heyward, finding a respite from his gravest fears, had leisure to admire the cautious manner in which the Hurons had made their approaches, even after hostilities had ceased.
-- But when we had followed it for many miles, without finding a single twig broken, as I had advised, my mind misgave me; especially as all the foot-steps had the prints of moccasins.'
-- Do you think the Sagamore, or Uncas, or even I, who am a man without a cross, would de-liberate about finding a cover in the scrimmage, when an open body would do no good?
-- Not-withstanding the nearness of the enemy, and his own great personal danger, the countenance of the young warrior ex-pressed no other emotion, as the former was compelled to think, than amazement at finding men willing to encounter so useless an exposure.
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：
-- They were finding him heavy.
-- He sold no pictures; I think he made little attempt to sell any; he set about finding some way to make a bit of money.
-- So far as I could make out, he painted with great difficulty, and in his unwillingness to accept help from anyone lost much time in finding out for himself the solution of technical problems which preceding generations had already worked out one by one.
-- He showed a skill I should never have credited him with in finding the places where the unhappy Dutchman was most sensitive.
-- He stood like a schoolboy with whom a master is finding fault.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pleasure of Harding on seeing his servant, and the joy of Neb at finding his master, can scarcely be described.
-- The reporter stopped, felt in his pockets, but finding nothing said, "I had some, but I must have thrown them away."
-- "I went along the coast for another two miles, carefully examining the beach, both at high and low water, and I had despaired of finding anything, when yesterday, above five in the evening, I saw footprints on the sand."
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