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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Irish peasant became a landed proprietor, and though his little estate had only been under cultivation for two years, he had five hundred acres cleared by his own hands, and five hundred head of cattle.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The total value of the estate was close on to a million.'
-- 'Since Rodger Baskerville, Sir Charles's younger brother died unmarried, the estate would descend to the Desmonds, who are distant cousins.
-- 'He would be the heir to the estate because that is en-tailed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides these houses he had a delightful little estate just out of town, and some sort of factory in another part of the city.
-- He had married young, while still a lieutenant, his wife being a girl of about his own age, who possessed neither beauty nor education, and who brought him no more than fifty souls of landed property, which little estate served, however, as a nest-egg for far more important accumulations.
-- Close to an estate of Totski's, in one of the central provinces of Russia, there lived, at that time, a poor gentleman whose estate was of the wretchedest description.
-- This gentleman was noted in the district for his persistent ill-fortune; his name was Barashkoff, and, as regards family and descent, he was vastly superior to Totski, but his estate was mortgaged to the last acre.
-- His estate was sold for the creditors; and the little girls two of them, of seven and eight years of age respectively, were adopted by Totski, who undertook their maintenance and education in the kindness of his heart.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover we hold a large estate by the banks of the river Xanthus, fair with orchard lawns and wheat-grow-ing land; it becomes us, therefore, to take our stand at the head of all the Lycians and bear the brunt of the fight, that one may say to another, 'Our princes in Lycia eat the fat of the land and drink best of wine, but they are fine fellows; they fight well and are ever at the front in battle.'
-- Achilles struck him full on the head as he was coming on to-wards him, and split it clean in two; whereon he fell heavily to the ground and Achilles vaunted over him saying, 'You be low, son of Otrynteus, mighty hero; your death is here, but your lineage is on the Gygaean lake where your father's estate lies, by Hyllus, rich in fish, and the eddying waters of Hermus.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maslova was the daughter of an unmarried menial who lived with her mother, a cowherd, on the estate of two spinsters.
-- The relations of Nekhludoff to Katiousha were the following: Nekhludoff first met Katiousha when he went to stay one summer out at the estate of his aunts in order that he might quietly prepare his thesis on the private ownership of land.
-- Ordinarily he lived on the estate of his mother, near Moskow, with his mother and sister.
-- His life on the estate of his aunts was ordered in the following way: He rose very early, some times at three o'clock, and till sunrise bathed in the river under a hill, often in the morning mist, and returned when the dew was yet on the grass and flowers.
-- Similarly, when Nekhludoff, on reaching his majority, distributed the estate he inherited from his father among the peasants, because he considered the ownership of land unjust, this act of his horrified his mother and relatives, who constantly reproached and ridiculed him for it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Is he not rich enough to keep the estate in good order?'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Shaughnessy one morning to Hurstwood, pointing to the real estate column in a copy of the "Herald," which he held.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king he visited around in the evening, and sweet- ened everybody up, and made himself ever so friendly; and he give out the idea that his congrega- tion over in Eng- land would be in a sweat about him, so he must hurry and settle up the estate right away and leave for home.
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