purchase是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 买， 购买n. 购买的物品，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：
-- Glenarvan wished to purchase an eighth horse for the Patagonian, but he gave him to understand that it would be useless.
-- He profited by his own former experience, and laid by every penny he could till he had saved enough to purchase new lots.
-- Olbinett's stores furnished some preserved meat which remained of the purchase made for their voyage in the MACQUARIE.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Colia and Kostia were about to make this purchase for their friend when chance brought the hedgehog to their notice, and they had succumbed to the temptation of buying it.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This done, they brought from the store-chamber the rich ransom that was to purchase the body of Hector, and they set it all orderly on the waggon; then they yoked the strong harness-mules which the Mysians had on a time given as a goodly present to Priam; but for Priam himself they yoked horses which the old king had bred, and kept for own use.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One night he slid down from the post and slipped in between the elephants and threw up the loose end of a rope, which had dropped, to a driver who was trying to get a purchase on the leg of a kicking young calf (calves always give more trouble than full-grown animals).
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Purchase wealth by her safety and satisfy your revenge with a single victim.
-- Let us, then, sell our lives at such a rate as shall make our enemies believe the purchase too dear.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though his means were adequate to the needs of himself and his wife, he certainly had no money to waste; but now he was wantonly extravagant in the purchase of delicacies, out of season and dear, which might tempt Strickland's capricious appetite.
-- I reflected that French paper was bad, and that, foiled of my purpose, I need not burden myself with a purchase that I did not need.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between them they agreed upon the sum it would be fair to offer for the purchase of a half-share in the business, and then Mr Meagles unsealed a paper in which Daniel Doyce had noted the amount at which he valued it; which was even something less.
-- The purchase was completed within a month.
-- His patronage did not stop here; for he charged Maggy to get the tea ready, and instructed her to buy certain tea-cakes, fresh butter, eggs, cold ham, and shrimps: to purchase which collation he gave her a bank-note for ten pounds, laying strict injunctions on her to be careful of the change.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In its filthy shops are exposed for sale huge bunches of second-hand silk handkerchiefs, of all sizes and patterns; for here reside the traders who purchase them from pick-pockets.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had in-tended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.
-- Eliza-beth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.
-- 'But I would really advise you to make your purchase in that neighbourhood, and take Pemberley for a kind of mod-el.
-- 'Upon my word, Caroline, I should think it more possible to get Pemberley by purchase than by imitation.'
-- 'I should not be surprised,' said Darcy, 'if he were to give it up as soon as any eligible purchase offers.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this cargo arrived I thought my fortune made, for I was surprised with the joy of it; and my stood steward, the captain, had laid out the five pounds, which my friend had sent him for a present for himself, to purchase and bring me over a servant, under bond for six years' service, and would not accept of any consideration, except a little tobacco, which I would have him accept, being of my own produce.
-- You may suppose, that having now lived almost four years in the Brazils, and beginning to thrive and prosper very well upon my plantation, I had not only learned the language, but had contracted acquaintance and friendship among my fellow-planters, as well as among the merchants at St. Salvador, which was our port; and that, in my discourses among them, I had frequently given them an account of my two voyages to the coast of Guinea: the manner of trading with the negroes there, and how easy it was to purchase upon the coast for trifles - such as beads, toys, knives, scissors, hatchets, bits of glass, and the like - not only gold-dust, Guinea grains, elephants' teeth, &c., but negroes, for the service of the Brazils, in great numbers.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then I have made a little purchase within this half year; East Kingham Farm, you must remember the place, where old Gibson used to live.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a few minutes she was back and the purchase was closed.
-- These house details settled, Hurstwood visited some of the advertised opportunities to purchase an interest in some flourishing down-town bar.
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