bankrupt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 破产的, 彻底失败的; 彻底缺乏的 n. 破产者 vt. 使破产, 使枯竭，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was naturally a very nervous, shuddering sort of little fellow, this bread-faced steward; the progeny of a bankrupt baker and a hospital nurse.
-- For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.
-- In truth, it turned out to be one of those problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving their defunct bodies almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil.
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：
-- And maybe Sonia herself will be bankrupt to-day, for there is always a risk, hunting big game 芒聙娄 digging for gold 芒聙娄 then they would all be without a crust to-morrow except for my money.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he knew nothing himself, but the art ofslashing, being more ignorant (J. Steerforth said) than the lowestboy in the school; that he had been, a good many years ago, a smallhop-dealer in the Borough, and had taken to the schooling businessafter being bankrupt in hops, and making away with Mrs.Creakle's money.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he became a very celebrated bankrupt two or three times."
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