estate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 房地产, 财产，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mon-sieur Gabelle had held the impoverished and involved estate on written instructions, to spare the people, to give them what little there was to give such fuel as the heavy credi-tors would let them have in the winter, and such produce as could be saved from the same grip in the summer and no doubt he had put the fact in plea and proof, for his own safety, so that it could not but appear now.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here a Polish speculator bought for half its value a magnificent estate from a young lady who lives in Nice.
-- She had gone to Ergushovo, the estate that had been her dowry, and the one where in spring the forest had been sold.
-- The chief source of income on his sister's estate was from the riverside meadows.
-- He sent the saddle without an answer, and with a sense of having done something shameful; he handed over all the now revolting business of the estate to the bailiff, and set off next day to a remote district to see his friend Sviazhsky, who had splendid marshes for grouse in his neighborhood, and had lately written to ask him to keep a long-standing promise to stay with him.
-- He gave orders for the wheat to be delivered, sent the bailiff to the merchant to get the money owing him, and went out himself to give some final directions on the estate before setting off.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now just between you and me and the gatepost, my vogue doesn't lie in real estate but in oratory.
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：
-- But at last he lost all control and had the face to make Dounia an open and shameful proposal, promising her all sorts of inducements and offering, besides, to throw up everything and take her to another estate of his, or even abroad.
-- But do you know I managed the estate quite decently, they know me in the neighbourhood.
-- 'Then he said that he wasn't rich and all the estate was left to his children who are now with an aunt, then that he was staying somewhere not far from me, but where, I don't know, I didn't ask芒聙娄.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In such a case, he said, notonly were there very pretty pickings, in the way of arguments atevery stage of the proceedings, and mountains upon mountains ofevidence on interrogatory and counter-interrogatory (to saynothing of an appeal lying, first to the Delegates, and then to theLords); but, the costs being pretty sure to come out of the estate atlast, both sides went at it in a lively and spirited manner, andexpense was no consideration.
-- That these meshes; beginning with alarmingand falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver,at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for whichhe was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on withpretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, reallycoming fromHEEP- and by- HEEP- fraudulently obtained orwithheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations orotherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue ofunscrupulous chicaneriesgradually thickened, until the unhappyMr. W. could see no world beyond.
-- 'But,' said Traddles, 'the surplus that would be left as his means ofsupportand I suppose the house to be sold, even in saying this-would be so small, not exceeding in all probability some hundredsof pounds, that perhaps, Miss Wickfield, it would be best toconsider whether he might not retain his agency of the estate towhich he has so long been receiver.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had, by that time, realised an easy competence enough to secure the purchase of a little estate adjoining Highbury, which he had always longed for enough to marry a wom-an as portionless even as Miss Taylor, and to live according to the wishes of his own friendly and social disposition.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE HOMESTEAD A VISITOR HALF-CONFIDENCESBy daylight, the bower of Oak's new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a distinct property, and merged in the vast tract of a non-resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes.
-- There had originally been shown by the agent to the estate some distrust of Bathsheba's tenure as James Everdene's successor, on the score of her sex, and her youth, and her beauty; but the peculiar nature of her uncle's will, his own frequent testimony before his death to her cleverness in such a pursuit, and her vigorous marshalling of the numerous flocks and herds which came suddenly into her hands before negotiations were concluded, had won confidence in her powers, and no further objections had been raised.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father was persuaded that he had sufficient reason for declining to acknowledge her, and allowed her a bare six hundred francs a year; he had further taken measures to disinherit his daughter, and had converted all his real estate into personalty, that he might leave it undivided to his son.
-- His father and mother, his two brothers and two sisters, with an aged aunt, whose whole fortune consisted in annuities, lived on the little estate of Rastignac.
-- cried the Count, her husband, "this gentleman's family estate is not far from Verteuil, on the Charente; his great-uncle and my grandfather were acquainted."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- y father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was Mthe third of five sons.
-- My eldest uncle John had left me an estate in land, near Epping, of about thirty pounds a-year; and I had a long lease of the Black Bull in Fetter-Lane, which yielded me as much more; so that I was not in any danger of leaving my family upon the par-ish.
-- He said, 'if I would go with him to his coun-try-house, about twenty miles distant, where his estate lay, 219there would be more leisure for this kind of conversation.'
-- His ex-cellency observed my countenance to clear up; he told me, with a sigh, 'that there his estate began, and would continue the same, till we should come to his house: that his country-men ridiculed and despised him, for managing his affairs no better, and for setting so ill an example to the kingdom; which, however, was followed by very few, such as were old, and wilful, and weak like himself.'
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