take是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 拿取； 吃； 记录； 取得； 花费； 捕获； 认为，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true."
-- Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
-- Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness Give it up, Sub-Subs!For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless!Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye!But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.
-- With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
-- Right and left, the streets take you waterward.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- 'Lor bless her dear heart, when she has lived as long as I have, sir, and had thirteen children of her own, and all on 'em dead except two, and them in the wurkus with me, she'll know better than to take on in that way, bless her dear heart!Think what it is to be a mother, there's a dear young lamb do.'
-- said the nurse, picking up the cork of the green bottle, which had fallen out on the pillow, as she stooped to take up the child.
-- Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing--though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm--the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.
-- '(Susan, take Oliver and them two brats upstairs, and wash 'em directly.)
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.'
-- You take delight in vexing me.
-- But if WE do not ven-ture somebody else will; and after all, Mrs. Long and her daughters must stand their chance; and, therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.'
-- Compliments always take YOU by surprise, and ME never.
-- But to be candid without ostentation or design to take the good of every-body's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad belongs to you alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well!One day when we took Pet to church there to hear the music because, as practical people, it is the business of our lives to show her everything that we think can please her Mother (my usual name for Mrs Meagles) began to cry so, that it was necessary to take her out.
-- Let us take one of those same little children to be a little maid to Pet.
-- So if we should find her temper a little defective, or any of her ways a little wide of ours, we shall know what we have to take into account.
-- 'If they take much care of themselves, and little or none of you, you must not mind it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your airs are funny now, but you'll grow up an affected little goose, if you don't take care.
-- As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within.
-- 'I'm the oldest,' began Meg, but Jo cut in with a decided, 'I'm the man of the family now Papa is away, and I shall provide the slippers, for he told me to take special care of Mother while he was gone.'
-- 'She took it out a minute ago, and went off with it to put a ribbon on it, or some such notion,' replied Jo, dancing about the room to take the first stiffness off the new army slip-pers.
-- 'I shall take the cream and the muffings,' added Amy, he-roically giving up the article she most liked.
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