earn是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 赚得， 挣得， 获得，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One, the lower class, vulgar, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people, who believe that one husband ought to live with the one wife whom he has lawfully married; that a girl should be innocent, a woman modest, and a man manly, self-controlled, and strong; that one ought to bring up one's children, earn one's bread, and pay one's debts; and various similar absurdities.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin would return to medical school at once, and be a good boy and get through as quickly as he could and begin to earn money.
-- Then, it appeared, she had secretly sent for a shorthand book and, on pretense of helping Bert, she was using the typewriter in the bank, hoping that by next autumn she could join Martin and earn her own living as a stenographer.
-- for nothing a year and earn my keep by being a night watchman than give up the fight for everything that is decent and constructive.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you suppose that a respectable poor girl can earn much by honest work?
-- He was very poor, and kept himself entirely on what he could earn by work of one sort or another.
-- He knew of no end of resources by which to earn money.
-- If Nastasya brought me anything, I ate it, if she didn't, I went all day without; I wouldn't ask, on purpose, from sulkiness!At night I had no light, I lay in the dark and I wouldn't earn money for candles.
-- 'Explain to this silly girl, please, that nothing better could be done!Even organ-grinders earn their living, and everyone will see at once that we are differ-ent, that we are an honourable and bereaved family reduced to beggary.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Murdstone with an impatient, even anangry gesture, resumed, without noticing what he had said-'Those terms are, that you will earn enough for yourself to providefor your eating and drinking, and pocket-money.
-- I explained withtolerable firmness, that I really did not know where my means ofsubsistence were to come from, unless I could earn them formyself.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- you would not earn a very good livelihood as a working sil-versmith at this rate.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the dog, 'my master was going to knock me on the head, because I am old and weak, and can no longer make myself useful to him in hunting; so I ran away; but what can I do to earn my live-lihood?'
-- said the shepherd, 'he has not a tooth in his head, and the thieves don't care for him at all; to be sure he has served us, but then he did it to earn his livelihood; tomorrow shall be his last day, depend upon it.'
-- After Hans had had her some time, he said: 'Wife, I am going out to work and earn some money for us; go into the 193field and cut the corn that we may have some bread.'
-- said they; 'they who would eat bread should first earn it; away with the kitchen-maid!'
-- 222 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER here was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and Twas very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to their combining together; there are many of them, I have no doubt, that by watching and informing upon one another could earn a trifle now and then, whether in money or good will, and improve their livelihood.
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：
-- If only they were educat-ed to LIVE instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily on twenty-five shillings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To enable this girl to earn her few weekly shillings, it was necessary for the Child of the Marshalsea to go through an elaborate form with the Father.
-- 'It would be a new distress to him even to know that I earn a little money, and that Fanny earns a little money.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm sure we work hard enough to earn it,' cried Jo, examining the heels of her shoes in a gentlemanly manner.
-- Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.
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