design是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 设计； 构思； 绘制； 图案； 企图n. 设计， 图样，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he, 'all the world seems to have a design against my head this morning': and so saying, he threw himself sulkily into his easy chair; but, oh dear!the needle ran into him; and 81this time the pain was not in his head.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
-- The people had notice, by proclamation, of my design to visit the town.
-- But I shall not anticipate the reader with further de-scriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
-- They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to de-scribe or conceive.
-- 76 Gulliver's TravelsChapter VII The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high- treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The M'Choakumchild school was all fact, and the school of design was all fact, and the relations between master and man were all fact, and everything was fact between the lying-in hospital and the cemetery, and what you couldn't state in figures, or show to be purchaseable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen.
-- He had no particular design or plan before him: no energetic wickedness ruffled his lassitude.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This changed the client's half-formed design of remaining at the coffee-shop until the nondescript should bring him word that Dorrit had issued forth into the street.
-- At which identical evening hour and minute, the Patriarch who had floated serenely through the Yard in the forenoon before the harrying began, with the express design of getting up this trustfulness in his shining bumps and silken locks at which identical hour and minute, that first-rate humbug of a thousand guns was heavily floundering in the little Dock of his exhausted Tug at home, and was saying, as he turned his thumbs:'A very bad day's work, Pancks, very bad day's work.
-- He would have thought, even if there were no such design as that, had he brought him there to play with his repressed emotions, and torment him?
-- He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact.
-- To make a vaunt of being poor was another of the incidents of his splenetic state, though this may have had the design in it of showing that he ought to be rich; just as he would publicly laud and decry the Barnacles, lest it should be forgotten that he belonged to the family.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, the artist's design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I conversed upon the subject.
-- And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Is that his design in settling here?'
-- 'Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improve-ment on the harp; and pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table, and I think it infinitely superior to Miss Grantley's.'
-- Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively resolved nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley's carriage immediately, and at length it was settled that their original design of leaving Netherfield that morning should be mentioned, and the request made.
-- But before I am run away with by my feelings on this subject, perhaps it would be advisable for me to state my reasons for mar-rying and, moreover, for coming into Hertfordshire with the design of selecting a wife, as I certainly did.'
-- 'If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
-- My design in this was to make the river Gambia or Senegal, that is to say anywhere about the Cape de Verde, where I was in hopes to meet with some European ship; and if I did not, I knew not what course I had to take, but to seek for the islands, or perish there among the negroes.
-- But, when I ob-served the course she steered, I was soon convinced they were bound some other way, and did not design to come any nearer to the shore; upon which I stretched out to sea as much as I could, resolving to speak with them if possible.
-- The same day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the northward upon our own coast, with design to stretch over for the African coast when we came about ten or twelve degrees of northern latitude, which, it seems, was the man-ner of course in those days.
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