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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her story got about, and several of the people here did something to enable her to earn an hon-est living.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I mean to get something to do directly, and earn money.
-- 'Look here, Parfen; if you love her so much, surely you must be anxious to earn her respect?
-- But what can one earn by teaching the children of Russian merchants at ten copecks a lesson, especially with an invalid mother to keep?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, though you hate both him and his gifts with all your heart, yet pity the rest of the Achaeans who are being harassed in all their host; they will honour you as a god, and you will earn great glory at their hands.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Kemp was a tall and slender young man, with flaxen hair and a moustache almost white, and the work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it.
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：
-- Colonel MacAndrew had not exaggerated when he said she would be penniless, and it was necessary for her to earn her own living as quickly as she could.
-- But she could not get over the idea that to earn her living was somewhat undignified, and she was inclined to remind you that she was a lady by birth.
-- "I can earn money for him."
-- The years during which he was struggling to acquire proficiency in a difficult art were monotonous, and I do not know that there was anything significant in the shifts to which he was put to earn enough money to keep him.
-- But even during the brief intervals in which they are in love, men do other things which distract their mind; the trades by which they earn their living engage their attention; they are absorbed in sport; they can interest themselves in art.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dear grandfather,' cried the girl with an energy which shone in her flushed face, trembling voice, and impassioned gesture, 'I am not a child in that I think, but even if I am, oh hear me pray that we may beg, or work in open roads or fields, to earn a scanty living, rather than live as we do now.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Amy tried on the blue ring with a delighted face and a firm resolve to earn it.
-- He was perfectly open and honorable about Meg, for he told us he loved her, but would earn a comfortable home before he asked her to marry him.
-- The tea bell rang before he had finished describing the paradise which he meant to earn for Meg, and he proudly took her in to supper, both looking so happy that Jo hadn't the heart to be jealous or dismal.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She proposed to earn her living honestly.
-- I don't earn enough."
-- It takes more than I can earn to pay for things.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These yer orphans 'll git their house back agin, and that's enough for THEM; they're young and spry, and k'n easy earn a livin'.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With it I intend to go around the world, to earn my crust of bread and cup of wine.
-- But the Cricket, who was a wise old philosopher, instead of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone: "If you do not like going to school, why don't you at least learn a trade, so that you can earn an honest living?"
-- Then, clever as I am, I can earn a lot of money.
-- "Does he earn much?"
-- I have reached the conclusion that, in order to come by money honestly, one must work and know how to earn it with hand or brain."
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