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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I asked for no moreinformation about Mr. Wickfield, as she offered none, and weconversed on other subjects until we came to Canterbury, where, asit was market-day, my aunt had a great opportunity of insinuatingthe grey pony among carts, baskets, vegetables, and hucksters'goods.
-- Thatalthough it was little else than a matter of form, I presumed Ishould have an opportunity of trying how I liked it, before I boundmyself to it irrevocably.
-- I was not so vexed atlosing Agnes as I might have been, since it gave me an opportunity 348of making myself known to Traddles on the stairs, who greeted mewith great fervour: while Uriah writhed with such unobtrusivesatisfaction and self-abasement, that I could gladly have pitchedhim over the banisters.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was not sorry to have such an opportunity of survey; and walking a few yards forward, while they talked together, soon made her quick eye suffi-ciently acquainted with Mr. Robert Martin.
-- I dare say Miss Nash would envy you such an opportunity as this of being married.
-- While he talked to Isabella, however, Emma found an opportunity of saying, 'And so you do not consider this visit from your son as by any means certain.
-- I was introducing her into good company, and giving her the opportunity of pleasing some one worth having; I ought not to have attempted more.
-- His son, too well bred to hear the hint, rose immediately also, saying, 'As you are going farther on business, sir, I will take the opportunity of paying a visit, which must be paid some day or other, and therefore may as well be paid now.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found his opportunity in the death of a ewe, mother of a living lamb.
-- Here was an opportunity for putting his dearly bought wisdom into practice.
-- Gabriel lately, for the first time since his prostration by misfortune, had been independent in thought and vigorous in action to a marked extent conditions which, powerless without an opportunity as an opportunity without them is barren, would have given him a sure lift upwards when the favourable conjunction should have occurred.
-- An opportunity occurred one evening when she had gone for a short walk by a path through the neighbouring cornfields.
-- "Since this subject has been mentioned," she said very emphatically, "I am glad of the opportunity of clearing up a mistake which is very common and very provoking.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Delighted to have an opportunity of making your acquaintance," he said.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know of no opportunity afforded him for so do-ing; or, if I had, why should he have stolen the jewel, to part with it again so soon?
-- 'Felix conducted the fugitives through France to Lyons and across Mont Cenis to Leghorn, where the merchant had decided to wait a favourable opportunity of passing into some part of the Turkish dominions.
-- He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a boarder at a con-vent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this pro-ceeding.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew also that he was presenting her with just the opportunity shewanted for opening the conversation without revealing her true purpose.
-- These visits were disappointing, for she had little opportunity for thelong quiet talks with her mother to which she looked forward while in Atlanta, no time to sit by Ellen while she sewed,smelling the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet as her skirts rustled, feeling her soft hands on her cheek in agentle caress.
-- Even John Wilkes,visibly proud of his son, had no opportunity for quiet conversation with him.
-- Why hadn't she made the opportunity during thislast week?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.
-- You'll have opportunity enough to say about it, and hear about it, before it's done with, you know."
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
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