choose是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 选择， 挑选； 甘愿，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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Gradgrind was not a scientific character, and usually dismissed her children to their studies with this general injunction to choose their pursuit.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Other bodies were found, as we trod the dusty plain, and my uncle was able to choose the most marvelous of these specimens in order to convince the most incredulous.
-- In such circumstances you do not choose your own thoughts.
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：
-- 'And what if I don't choose to tell you?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, John Baptist, now able to choose his own spot within the compass of those walls for the exercise of his faculty of going to sleep when he would, lay down upon the bench, with his face turned over on his crossed arms, and slumbered.
-- 'Mrs Bangham,' returned the doctor, 'I am in professional attendance on this lady, and don't choose to allow any discussion on your part.
-- He is willing to take you back, my dear, if you are sensible of the favour and choose to go.
-- he inquired, with that peculiar smile which Mistress Affery could not choose but keep her eyes upon.
-- As to the fact of the line of conduct I choose to adopt towards the individual present, you ought to be proud of my showing a proper spirit.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw anyone faint, and I don't choose to make myself all black and blue, tumbling flat as you do.
-- 'Call yourself any names you like, but I am neither a ras-cal nor a wretch and I don't choose to be called so.'
-- 'Why, you pile up your hands, choose a number, and draw out in turn, and the person who draws at the number has to answer truly any question put by the rest.
-- 'I've made such quantities it would be hard to choose which I'd have,' said Laurie, lying flat and throwing cones at the squirrel who had betrayed him.
-- 'Which would Mademoiselle choose if she had her will?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.
-- But the Pequod was only making a passage now; not regularly cruising; nearly all whaling preparatives needing supervision the mates were fully competent to, so that there was little or nothing, out of himself, to employ or excite Ahab, now; and thus chase away, for that one interval, the clouds that layer upon layer were piled upon his brow, as ever all clouds choose the loftiest peaks to pile themselves upon.
-- The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
-- Or, to choose a wholly unsubstantial instance, purely addressed to the fancy, why, in reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does "the tall pale man" of the Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrustlingly glides through the green of the groves why is this phantom more terrible than all the whooping imps of the Blocksburg?
-- To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And wot,' said Sikes, scowling fiercely on his agreeable friend, 'wot makes you take so much pains about one chalk-faced kid, when you know there are fifty boys snoozing about Common Garden every night, as you might pick and choose from?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
-- 'You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to dis-cuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; if the first, I would be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.'
-- Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, he intended to marry; and in seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view, as he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report.
-- Elizabeth, however, did not choose to take the hint, being well aware that a serious dispute must be the conse-quence of any reply.
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