pursuit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 追赶, 追求; 从事, 消遣，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Pray, Doctor Manette,' said Mr. Darnay, as they sat under the plane-tree and he said it in the natu-ral pursuit of the topic in hand, which happened to be the old buildings of London 'have you seen much of the Tow-er?'
-- I infer,' glancing at his hands again, 'in the resumption of some old pursuit connected with the shock?'
-- 'Now, did you ever see him,' asked the Doctor, distinctly and collectedly, though in the same low voice, 'engaged in that pursuit originally?'
-- She and her father would unquestionably be guilty of this crime, and this woman (the inveteracy of whose pursuit cannot be described) would wait to add that strength to her case, and make herself doubly sure.
-- The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after her return from Moscow, on arriving at a soiree where she had expected to meet him, and not finding him there, she realized distinctly from the rush of disappointment that she had been deceiving herself, and that this pursuit was not merely not distasteful to her, but that it made the whole interest of her life.
-- On the spot the officers set off in pursuit of her; she was alarmed, and feeling still more unwell, ran up the staircase home.
-- My aim is simply to safeguard my reputation, which is essential for the uninterrupted pursuit of my public duties."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849 a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who had flocked hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder; a paradise of outlaws, where they gambled with gold-dust, a revolver in one hand and a bowie-knife in the other: it was now a great commercial emporium.
-- But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, who proceeded with the story of Joseph Smith's bankruptcy in 1837, and how his ruined creditors gave him a coat of tar and feathers; his reappearance some years afterwards, more honourable and honoured than ever, at Independence, Missouri, the chief of a flourishing colony of three thousand disciples, and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles, and retirement into the Far West.
-- cried Fix, coming up; "you go alone in pursuit of the Indians?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they immediately drew the deduction that the crime could only have been committed through temporary men-tal derangement, through homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever I had within me that was romantic and dreamy, wasencouraged by so much story-telling in the dark; and in thatrespect the pursuit may not have been very profitable to me.
-- 174CHAPTER XIIIThe Sequel of My ResolutionFOR anything I know, I may have had some wild idea of runningall the way to Dover, when I gave up the pursuit of the young manwith the donkey-cart, and started for Greenwich.
-- But in the absence of any such miraculousprovision, my desire was to apply myself to some pursuit thatwould not lie too heavily upon her purse; and to do my duty in it,whatever it might be.
-- 'Indeed he does, and you know how truly; knowing how ardentyou are in any pursuit you follow, and how easily you can masterit.
-- When we got to our journey's end, our first pursuit was to lookabout for a little lodging for Peggotty, where her brother couldhave a bed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
-- He begged to be shewn the house which his father had lived in so long, and which had been the home of his father's father; and on recollecting that an old woman who had nursed him was still living, walked in quest of her cot-tage from one end of the street to the other; and though in some points of pursuit or observation there was no positive merit, they shewed, altogether, a good-will towards High-bury in general, which must be very like a merit to those he was with.
-- He began to sus-pect him of some double dealing in his pursuit of Emma.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make.
-- In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
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