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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now this neatly dressed gentleman, with perfumed beard, was to her not that Nekhludoff whom she had loved, but one of those people who, as opportunity afforded, were taking advantage of such creatures as she, and of whom such creatures as she ought to take advantage as opportunity offers.
-- The only purpose these things served, he thought, was to afford the servants an opportunity of exercise.
-- "No, I will go to the prison and obtain her signature," said Nekhludoff, rejoicing at the opportunity of seeing Katiousha before the appointed day.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then you'd better not fight to-day,' said Alice, thinking it a good opportunity to make peace.
-- 'We gave you the opportunity of doing it,' the Red Queen remarked: 'but I daresay you've not had many lessons in manners yet?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an opportunity for him to talk, and for me to hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces.
-- Should I ever again have such an opportunity of observing the wonders of the ocean?
-- On the other side, prudence bids us profit by the first opportunity to leave the Nautilus."
-- But the question is still this: If a favourable opportunity presents itself, it must be seized."
-- "Well, I think I do not say I hope I think that this favourable opportunity will never present itself."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet here we are we have the opportunity to make beautiful factories, beautiful machine-houses we have the opportunity "Gudrun could only partly understand.
-- Meanwhile Gudrun and Ursula waited for the next opportunity to talk to Loerke.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I declined joining their breakfast, and, at the first gleam of dawn, took an opportunity of escaping into the free air, now clear, and still, and cold as impalpable ice.
-- I did not call her unfeeling long; for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master: as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.
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