destiny是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 命运； 天数， 天命，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A good opportunity for consideration, surrounded by the advan-tages of solitude, might influence your destiny to far greater advantage than you influence it for yourself.
-- ' And if it does come, while we live to see it triumph I hope, for her sake, Destiny will keep her husband out of France.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To reach up to the bell was what he did not like; to cry aloud for help would have availed him little; besides, how ashamed would he have been to be found caught in a trap, like an outwitted fox!How was he to twist himself through!He saw clearly that it was his irrevocable destiny to remain a prisoner till dawn, or, perhaps, even late in the morning; then the smith must be fetched to file away the bars; but all that would not be done so quickly as he could think about it.
-- His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his destiny ordained he should obtain.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it," he said, in the word we linking himself with Anna.
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：
-- Men will catch at straws!Was it destiny or some in-stinct bringing them together?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'farewell!Every happiness andprosperity!If, in the progress of revolving years, I could persuademyself that my blighted destiny had been a warning to you, Ishould feel that I had not occupied another man's place inexistence altogether in vain.
-- 'In reference to our domestic preparations, madam,' said Mr.Micawber, with some pride, 'for meeting the destiny to which weare now understood to be selfdevoted, I beg to report them.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move; and Mr. Woodhouse having, as usual, tried to persuade his daughter to stay behind with all her children, was obliged to see the whole party set off, and return to his lamentations over the destiny of poor Isabella; which poor Isabella, passing her life with those she doated on, full of their merits, blind to their faults, and always innocently busy, might have been a model of right feminine happiness.
-- 'If not in our dispositions,' she presently added, with a look of true sensibility, 'there is a likeness in our destiny; the destiny which bids fair to connect us with two characters so much superior to our own.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I do, I do; but no baily I deserved that place," wailed Henery, signifying wasted genius by gazing blankly at visions of a high destiny apparently visible to him on Billy Smallbury's smock-frock.
-- And to that had destiny subjoined this reencounter to-night, which had, in Bathsheba's wild imagining, turned her companion's failure to success, her humiliation to triumph, her lucklessness to ascendency; it had thrown over herself a garish light of mockery, and set upon all things about her an ironical smile.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, in draw-ing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that pas-sion which afterward ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.
-- Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
-- 'Alas!Yes, my father,' replied I; 'some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must live to fulfil it, or surely I should have died on the coffin of Henry.'
-- De-spondency rarely visited my heart; a high destiny seemed to bear me on, until I fell, never, never again to rise.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, such was his faith in his destiny and four deuces thathe never for a moment wondered just how the money would be paid back should a higher hand be laid down across thetable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy in getting the house ready for the festivities of the day, and Joe had been put upon the kitchen doorstep to keep him out of the dust-pan,--an article into which his destiny always led him, sooner or later, when my sister was vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment.
-- He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself, for he referred to his having been told by Mr. Jaggers that I was not designed for any profession, and that I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with the average of young men in prosperous circumstances.
-- Then I thought if she were, as I feared, by no means rapturously grateful for that destiny yet, when would she begin to be interested in me?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a little time, I and my family and friends came to a right understanding: but my wife protested 'I should never go to sea any more;' although my evil destiny so ordered, that she had not power to hinder me, as the reader may know hereafter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made it a point to agree with the Professor in everything; but I envied the perfect indifference of Hans, who, without taking any such trouble about the cause and effect, went blindly onwards wherever destiny chose to lead him.
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：
-- Was it actu-ally her destiny to go on weaving herself into his life all the rest of her life?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Plornish, after a little conversation, in which he blended his former duty as a Collegian with his present privilege as a humble outside friend, qualified again by his low estate as a plasterer, took his leave; making the tour of the prison before he left, and looking on at a game of skittles with the mixed feelings of an old inhabitant who had his private reasons for believing that it might be his destiny to come back again.
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