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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All through April and May he coveted an opportunity of talking to the stranger, and at last, towards Whitsuntide, he could stand it no longer, but hit upon the subscription-list for a village nurse as an excuse.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the first opportunity possessed by Duncan and his companions to view the marked lineaments of either of their Indian atten-dants, and each individual of the party felt relieved from a burden of doubt, as the proud and determined, though wild expression of the features of the young warrior forced itself on their notice.
-- Cora alone remembered the parting injunctions of the scout, and whenever an opportunity offered, she stretched forth her arm to bend aside the twigs that met her hands.
-- Notwithstanding the swiftness of their flight, one of the Indians had found an opportunity to strike a straggling fawn with an arrow, and had borne the more preferable fragments of the victim, patiently on his shoulders, to the stopping place.
-- The Mohican now found an opportunity to make a powerful thrust with his knife; Magua suddenly relinquished his grasp, and fell backward without motion, and seemingly without life.
-- 'No, no; instead of throwing away strength and opportunity by crossing to the fort, we lay by, under the bank of the Hud-son, waiting to watch the movements of the Hurons.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy, and it is evident that there was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic.
-- She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material.
-- This would give her the opportunity to send me away.
-- He really looked upon it as unfriendly that I had not given him the opportunity of making himself useful to me.
-- I welcomed the opportunity to examine him at my ease.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some extraordinary opportunity was needed to make the attempt with any chance of success, and this opportunity not only did not present itself, but was very difficult to find.
-- Here was the long-sought-for opportunity he was not a man to let it pass.
-- There was no doubt that they might be killed, but on the other hand they might succeed, and without this storm!Without this storm the balloon would have started already and the looked-for opportunity would not have then presented itself.
-- "This will be a good opportunity to taste jacamar," replied the sailor, "if that fellow is in a humor to be roasted!"
-- But if the engineer and the boy were obliged to give up thoughts of following a circular direction, in return an opportunity was given for ascending the cone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have fallen insensibly into this habit, both because it favours my infirmity and because it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on the characters and occupations of those who fill the streets.
-- She busied herself immediately in preparing supper, and while she was thus engaged I remarked that the old man took an opportunity of observing me more closely than he had done yet.
-- By these means he in time reached the door, where he gave a great cough to attract the dwarf's attention and gain an opportunity of expressing in dumb show, the closest confidence and most inviolable secrecy.
-- The opinion was not the result of hasty consideration, for which indeed there was no opportunity at that time, as the child came directly, and soon occupied herself in preparations for giving Kit a writing lesson, of which it seemed he had a couple every week, and one regularly on that evening, to the great mirth and enjoyment both of himself and his instructress.
-- 'Come, you drop that stick or it'll be worse for you,' said his boy, dodging round him and watching an opportunity to rush in; 'you drop that stick.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Nekhludoff was watching an opportunity to meet Katiousha that day, he did not succeed in seeing her face to face even once.
-- The jury rose from their seats, glad of an opportunity to leave the court-room, and, not knowing what to do with their hands, as if ashamed of something, they filed into the consultation-room.
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