opportunity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 机会，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：
-- Not to know that no space of re-gret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had no opportunity of saying, or so much as think-ing, anything else, until he was clear of the Old Bailey; for, the crowd came pouring out with a vehemence that nearly took him off his legs, and a loud buzz swept into the street as if the baffled blue-flies were dispersing in search of other carrion.
-- Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, with-out any apparent reason.
-- A good opportunity for consideration, surrounded by the advan-tages of solitude, might influence your destiny to far greater advantage than you influence it for yourself.
-- It was again a summer day when, lately arrived in London from his college occupation, he turned into the quiet corner in 184 A tale of two citiesSoho, bent on seeking an opportunity of opening his mind to Doctor Manette.
-- I took the opportunity of her being from home, to beg to speak to 185you.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was an excellent opportunity to have said something clever.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Turovtsin, warmed up by the champagne he had drunk, and long waiting for an opportunity to break the silence that had weighed on him.
-- Golenishtchev never let slip an opportunity of instilling sound ideas about art into Mihailov.
-- She enjoyed that form of communication, which gave opportunity for a refinement and air of mystery not afforded by their personal interviews.
-- He had been all the time looking for an opportunity to enter into conversation with Vronsky, so as to smooth over his rudeness at their first meeting.
-- He is glad of an opportunity of showing me that he has other duties; I know that, I submit to that.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir Francis Cromarty had observed the oddity of his travelling companion although the only opportunity he had for studying him had been while he was dealing the cards, and between two rubbers and questioned himself whether a human heart really beat beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense of the beauties of nature.
-- It was not impossible that the lost time might yet be recovered; and such an opportunity was not to be rejected.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I assume you agree with me, or you will when you have had an opportunity to see the effect our work has on the city, and the success we have in selling the idea of Better Health, that what the world needs is a really inspired, courageous, overtowering leader-- say a Billy Sunday of the movement--a man who would know how to use sensationalism properly and wake the people out of their sloth.
-- This one, about the temperance meeting I addressed in Des Moines--say, I had that hall, and it was jam-pack-full, lifting right up on their feet when I proved by statistics that ninety-three per cent of all insanity is caused by booze!Then this--well, it hasn't anything to do with health, directly, but it'll just indicate the opportunity you'll have here to get in touch with all the movements for civic weal."
-- Best opportunity in the world to meet the substantial citizens.
-- He thought about his indignities the whole week, but with the coming of winter there was a fever of dully sprightly dinners and safely wild bridge and their first evening at home, their first opportunity for secure and comfortable quarreling, was on Friday.
-- They came with letters and photographs amid the frayed clean linen in their shabby suit-cases- -at any opportunity they would stoop over their bags and hopefully bring out testimonials from their Pastors; they begged for a chance to heal humanity, and for themselves only enough money to send The Girl to musical conservatory.
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：
-- 'How can you, a doctor, whose duty it is to study man and who has more opportunity than anyone else for studying human nature how can you fail to see the character of the man in the whole story?
-- 'Dounia,' Raskolnikov continued with an effort, 'I don't want that marriage, so at the first opportunity to-morrow you must refuse Luzhin, so that we may never hear his name again.'
-- Nothing would have convinced Pyotr Petrovitch that Andrey Semyonovitch could really look on the money unmoved, and the latter, on his side, kept thinking bitterly that Pyotr Petrovitch was capable of entertaining such an idea about him and was, perhaps, glad of the opportunity of teasing his young friend by reminding him of his inferiority and the great difference between them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tookthe opportunity of asking if she was at all acquainted with Mr.Brooks of Sheffield, but she answered No, only she supposed hemust be a manufacturer in the knife and fork way.
-- As I could hardly hope for a more favourable opportunity ofputting a question in which I had a near interest, I said to Mrs.Micawber'May I ask, ma'am, what you and Mr. Micawber intendto do, now that Mr. Micawber is out of his difficulties, and atliberty?
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