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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule.
-- If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his 56 Frankensteindomestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To her, all women, including her twosisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The interest of the impending pursuit not only absorbed the general attention, but even made my sister liberal.
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- Somehow, that pursuit seemed more in keeping with Barnard's Inn.
-- A little while, and he was always in pursuit of her, and he and I crossed one another every day.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now the old cook herself got on her legs, and went with the three servants in pursuit of the children.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the pursuit of which, by thrift and management, I might reasonably expect, in about two hundred years, to be the wealthiest man in the kingdom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While, from Mr. Gradgrind, he heard in his much lower tone the words, 'But even as an example to Louisa, of what this pursuit which has been the subject of a vulgar curiosity, leads to and ends in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, after another interval of successorship to Mrs Bangham, he found a pursuit for himself, and announced it.
-- The whole had at once a fanciful and practical air in Clennam's eyes, which was a welcome change; and, as often as he raised them from his first work of getting the array of business documents into perfect order, he glanced at these things with a feeling of pleasure in his pursuit that was new to him.
-- In the constant effort not to be betrayed into a new phase of the besetting sin of his experience, the pursuit of selfish objects by low and small means, and to hold instead to some high principle of honour and generosity, there might have been a little merit.
-- Perhaps you have heard that I have suffered the keenest distress of mind from Henry's having taken to a pursuit which well!'
-- ' and that his talent, combined with disappointment,' Mrs Gowan went on, 'has led him into a pursuit which ah dear me!You know, my dear.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and darted out of the house in pursuit of him.
-- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
-- The worthy Obed tells us, that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly launched in pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected lofty spars along the sea-coast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house.
-- Nor is it so very unlikely, that far from distrusting his fitness for another whaling voyage, on account of such dark symptoms, the calculating people of that prudent isle were inclined to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons he was all the better qualified and set on edge, for a pursuit so full of rage and wildness as the bloody hunt of whales.
-- For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be verbally developed here, Ahab plainly saw that he must still in a good degree continue true to the natural, nominal purpose of the Pequod's voyage; observe all customary usages; and not only that, but force himself to evince all his well known passionate interest in the general pursuit of his profession.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- too, joined in the pursuit like good citizens.
-- 'There is no pursuit more worthy of me: more worthy of the highest nature that exists: than the struggle to win such a heart as yours,' said the young man, taking her hand.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, my dear,' said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, 'if your daughter should have a dan-gerous fit of illness if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.'
-- His present pursuit could not make him forget that Elizabeth had been the first to excite and to deserve his attention, the first to listen and to pity, the first to be admired; and in his manner of bidding her adieu, wishing her every enjoyment, reminding her of what she was to expect in Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and trusting their opinion of her their opinion of everybody would always coincide, there was a solicitude, an interest which she felt must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard; and she parted from him convinced that, whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
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