gift是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 礼品， 赠品； 天赋， 才能，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And who, to end all this, has lured you into accepting a gift which no lady can accept and stillremain a lady?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet giv-en her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years.
-- However, he determined to man-age more cleverly than his brother, and got together a rich present of gold and fine horses for the king; and thought he must have a much larger gift in return; for if his brother had received so much for only a turnip, what must his present be wroth?
-- The king took the gift very graciously, and said he knew not what to give in return more valuable and wonderful than the great turnip; so the soldier was forced to put it into a cart, and drag it home with him.
-- 258 Grimms' Fairy TalesLILY AND THE LION merchant, who had three daughters, was once setting A out upon a journey; but before he went he asked each daughter what gift he should bring back for her.
-- Then she felt for the little piece of wood; but when she un-wrapped the cloth it was not there, and she saw she had lost the gift of the good stars.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is al-leged, indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution; but, however this be, his majesty has determined to make use only of low heels in the adminis-tration of the government, and all offices in the gift of the crown, as you cannot but observe; and particularly that his majesty's imperial heels are lower at least by a drurr than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch).
-- So that, sup-posing us to have the gift of reason, he could not see how it were possible to cure that natural antipathy, which ev-ery creature discovered against us; nor consequently how we could tame and render them serviceable.
-- When I thought of my family, my friends, my country-men, or the human race in general, I considered them, as they really were, Yahoos in shape and disposition, perhaps a little more civilized, and qualified with the gift of speech; but making no other use of reason, than to improve and 356 Gulliver's Travelsmultiply those vices whereof their brethren in this country had only the share that nature allotted them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They have got the gift of the gab, they have.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why couldn't a girl be queenly, and give the gift of herself?
-- So they had given the gift of themselves, each to the youth with whom she had the most subtle and intimate ar-guments.
-- So the compensation was only three hundred pounds, and they made out as if it was more of a gift than legal compensation, because it was really the man's own fault.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was Mr Merdle's last gift to Society.
-- Some laughed; some said, by way of complete excuse, that the post was virtually a sinecure, and any fool who could spell his name was good enough for it; some, and these the more solemn political oracles, said that Decimus did wisely to strengthen himself, and that the sole constitutional purpose of all places within the gift of Decimus, was, that Decimus should strengthen himself.
-- Ultimately, he went into the most famous jeweller's, and said he wanted to buy a little gift for a lady.
-- For example, then, said the little woman, what species of gift did Monsieur desire?
-- So Mr Dorrit bought a gift of each sort, and paid handsomely for it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth blushed like a rose under the friendly look he wore, but she was not frightened now, and gave the hand a grate-ful squeeze because she had no words to thank him for the precious gift he had given her.
-- Amy especially enjoyed this high honor, and became quite a belle among them, for her ladyship early felt and learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.
-- No one did for several months, but the word 'fete' always produced a general smile, and Laurie's birthday gift to Amy was a tiny coral lobster in the shape of a charm for her watch guard.
-- Another and a better gift than intellect was shown her in a most unexpected manner.
-- He did not give the complacent wraith any name, but he took her for his heroine and grew quite fond of her, as well he might, for he gifted her with every gift and grace under the sun, and escorted her, unscathed, through trials which would have annihilated any mortal woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket.
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