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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same opportunity served me for noticing that Mr. Pumblechook appeared to conduct his business by looking across the street at the saddler, who appeared to transact his business by keeping his eye on the coachmaker, who appeared to get on in life by putting his hands in his pockets and contemplating the baker, who in his turn folded his arms and stared at the grocer, who stood at his door and yawned at the chemist.
-- I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have long been waiting for an opportunity to escape.'
-- 284 Grimms' Fairy Tales The eldest thought: 'I shall soon find an opportunity of pulling out a feather,' and as soon as Dummling had gone out she seized the goose by the wing, but her finger and hand remained sticking fast to it.
-- The host who heard this, laughed and said: 'If that is your desire, there ought to be a good opportunity for you here.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here the emperor ascended, with many principal lords of his court, to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not see them.
-- However, it was not long be-fore I had an opportunity of doing his majesty, at least as I then thought, a most signal service.
-- I have some pri-vate reasons to believe, that this visit from his majesty gave Flimnap an opportunity of doing me ill offices to his mas-ter.
-- A strange effect of narrow principles and views!that a prince possessed of every quality which procures venera-tion, love, and esteem; of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored by his subjects, should, from a nice, unneces-sary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people!Neither do I say this, with the least intention to detract from the many virtues of that excellent king, whose character, I am sensible, will, on this account, be very much lessened in the opinion of an English reader: but I take this defect among them to have risen from their ignorance, by not having hitherto reduced politics into a science, as the more acute wits of Europe have done.
-- I answered, as I had before determined, 'that I was a Dutch merchant, shipwrecked in a very remote country, whence I had trav-elled by sea and land to Luggnagg, and then took shipping for Japan; where I knew my countrymen often traded, and with some of these I hoped to get an opportunity of return-ing into Europe: I therefore most humbly entreated his royal favour, to give order that I should be conducted in safety to Nangasac.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.
-- Shortly after which oration, as they were going on a nuptial trip to Lyons, in order that Mr. Bounderby might take the opportunity of seeing how the Hands got on in those parts, and whether they, too, required to be fed with gold spoons; the happy pair departed for the railroad.
-- He was a ready man, and he saw, and seized, an opportunity here of presenting her own image to her, slightly disguised as her brother.
-- As he had rather a long ride to take that day for there was a public occasion 'to do' at some distance, which afforded a tolerable opportunity of going in for the Gradgrind men he dressed early and went down to breakfast.
-- However, still true to his conviction that indifference was the genuine high-breeding (the only conviction he had), he seized this crisis as the opportunity for ordering candles and a newspaper.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had all the more opportunity to reflect and admire the awful grandeur of the scene around.
-- But there was no longer any opportunity for me to hesitate.
-- I accordingly lost no opportunity of searching, and had not gone more than about a hundred yards, when the evidence I sought for cropped up in the most incontestable manner before my eyes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found an opportunity to say to her, as they were light-ing the candles in the hall: 'May I come?'
-- She was quivering, watching her real opportunity for leaving him altogether, waiting till the time, herself himself should be ripe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that he had an opportunity of observing her, Arthur found that her diminutive figure, small features, and slight spare dress, gave her the appearance of being much younger than she was.
-- He had risen now, and took the opportunity of glancing round the room.
-- Apparently, he helped to make the bed, that he might not lose an opportunity of stating this case; after which unloading of his mind, and after announcing (as it seemed he always did, without anything coming of it) that he was going to write a letter to the papers and show the marshal up, he fell into miscellaneous conversation with the rest.
-- There he had an opportunity of refreshing himself with both the bottles at once, looking out at a low blinding wall three feet off, and speculating on the number of Barnacle families within the bills of mortality who lived in such hutches of their own free flunkey choice.
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