economy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 节约； 经济，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I wished to behave nobly, justly, and with delicacy, I ought to bestow half my fortune upon the son of my benefactor; but as economy is my favourite virtue, and I know this is not a case in which the law can intervene, I will not give up half my millions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Political economy told him that the laws by which the wealth of Europe had been developed, and was developing, were universal and unvarying.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of them were still fishermen and plantation-foremen, but one of them, Kellett, a man small-mouthed and angry and industrious, had risen from office-boy to owner of a shipping company, and while his father still spread his nets on the beach at Point Carib, Kellett was the scourge of the House of Assembly and a hound for economy--particularly any economy which would annoy his fellow legislator, George William Vertigan.
-- Kellett's first triumph in economy was to pass an ordinance removing the melancholy Cockney (a player of oboes) who was the official rat-catcher of St. Hubert.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 33As the course of this tale requires that we should become acquainted, somewhere hereabouts, with a few particulars connected with the domestic economy of Mr Sampson Brass, and as a more convenient place than the present is not likely to occur for that purpose, the historian takes the friendly reader by the hand, and springing with him into the air, and cleaving the same at a greater rate than ever Don Cleophas Leandro Perez Zambullo and his familiar travelled through that pleasant region in company, alights with him upon the pavement of Bevis Marks.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apparently, such strict economy was called for, that he did without a fire all through the winter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the luminous arc was developed an important point of economy for Captain Nemo, who could not easily have replaced them; and under these conditions their waste was imperceptible.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By which the reader may con-ceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince.
-- had settled my little economy to my own heart's content.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This economy of motion was carried to the length of avarice.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm so fond of writing, I should go spinning on forever if motives of economy didn't stop me, for though I've used thin paper and written fine, I tremble to think of the stamps this long letter will need.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They haven't no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that,' said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When first Mr. Bennet had married, economy was held to be perfectly useless, for, of course, they were to have a son.
-- Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford, by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expences, she frequently sent them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- YOUR sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible: and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that and how little could the utmost of your single management do to stop the ruin which had begun before your marriage? Beyond THAT, had you endeavoured, however reasonably, to abridge HIS enjoyments, is it not to be feared, that instead of prevailing on feelings so selfish to consent to it, you would have lessened your own influence on his heart, and made him regret the connection which had involved him in such difficulties?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary, there was a fine reserve in his manner toward the entire domestic economy of his life which was all that is comprehended by the popular term, gentlemanly.
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