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。
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his man-ners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Der-byshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be com-pared with his friend.
-- His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her.
-- I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it.'
-- They had often attempted to do it before, but it was a subject on which Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
-- As a clergy-man, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within in the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive-branch.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived af-terwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good fam-ily in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in Eng-land, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
-- There was a letter of my partner's, congratulating mevery affectionately upon my being alive, giving me an ac-count how the estate was improved, and what it produced a year; with the particulars of the number of squares, or acres that it contained, how planted, how many slaves there were upon it: and making two- and-twenty crosses for blessings, told me he had said so many AVE MARIAS to thank the Blessed Virgin that I was alive; inviting me very passion-ately to come over and take possession of my own, and in the meantime to give him orders to whom he should de-liver my effects if I did not come myself; concluding with a hearty tender of his friendship, and that of his family; and sent me as a present seven fine leopards' skins, which he had, it seems, received from Africa, by some other ship that he had sent thither, and which, it seems, had made a better voyage than I.
-- I was now master, all on a sudden, of above five thousand pounds sterling in money, and had an estate, as I might well call it, in the Brazils, of above a thousand pounds a year, as sure as an estate of lands in England: and, in a word, I was in a condition which I scarce knew how to understand, or how to compose myself for the enjoyment of it.
-- I had now to consider which way to steer my course next, and what to do with the estate that Providence had thus put into my hands; and, indeed, I had more care upon my head now than I had in my state of life in the island where I wanted nothing but what I had, and had nothing but what I wanted; whereas I had now a great charge upon me, and my business was how to secure it.
-- I was now come to the centre of my travels, and had in a little time all my new-discovered estate safe about me, the bills of exchange which I brought with me having been cur-rently paid.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
-- The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
-- To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small.
-- He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave his estate from his nephew; but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the bequest.
-- Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate improvement.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young Hurstwood, Jr., was in his twentieth year, and was already connected in a promising capacity with a large real estate firm.
-- Even Hurstwood was doing well enough, and she was anxious that his small real estate adventures should prosper.
-- "And then if that little real estate deal I've got on goes through, we'll get married," he said with a great show of earnestness, the while he took his place before the mirror and began brushing his hair.
-- It so happened, however, that a real estate deal on the part of the owner of the land arranged things even more effectually than ill- will could have schemed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Circumlocution Department, sir,' Mr Barnacle replied, 'may have possibly recommended possibly I cannot say that some public claim against the insolvent estate of a firm or copartnership to which this person may have belonged, should be enforced.
-- Thus, in a prolix, gently-growling, foolish way, did Plornish turn the tangled skein of his estate about and about, like a blind man who was trying to find some beginning or end to it; until they reached the prison gate.
-- He had been required to look over the title of a very considerable estate in one of the eastern counties lying, in fact, for Mr Merdle knew we lawyers loved to be particular, on the borders of two of the eastern counties.
-- Now, the title was perfectly sound, and the estate was to be purchased by one who had the command of Money (jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), on remarkably advantageous terms.
-- Plornish, after a little conversation, in which he blended his former duty as a Collegian with his present privilege as a humble outside friend, qualified again by his low estate as a plasterer, took his leave; making the tour of the prison before he left, and looking on at a game of skittles with the mixed feelings of an old inhabitant who had his private reasons for believing that it might be his destiny to come back again.
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