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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of New Zealand, the country to which destiny was leading him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a wonderful face,' said the prince, 'and I feel sure that her destiny is not by any means an ordinary, uneventful one.
-- In their opinion, the latter's destiny was not merely to be very happy; she was to live in a heaven on earth.
-- General Epanchin took up his part and spoke in the character of father of a family; he spoke sensibly, and with-out wasting words over any attempt at sentimentality, he merely recorded his full admission of her right to be the arbiter of Totski's destiny at this moment.
-- The prince was away for six months, and even those who were most interested in his destiny were able to pick up very little news about him all that while.
-- An impor-tant moment of my destiny is about to be decided' (this is how Aglaya expressed herself) 'and I wish to find out how the matter stands, for my own sake, though I am glad you are all here.
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：
-- 'There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.
-- 'Yes, Sir, indeed,' returned Dick, yielding to his destiny and saying whatever came uppermost; 'an equal quantity of slumber was never got out of one bed and bedstead, and if you're going to sleep in that way, you must pay for a double-bedded room.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Are you sorry that destiny has thrown us into Captain Nemo's hands?"
-- And I also hope that his powerful vessel has conquered the sea at its most terrible gulf, and that the Nautilus has survived where so many other vessels have been lost!If it be so if Captain Nemo still inhabits the ocean, his adopted country, may hatred be appeased in that savage heart!May the contemplation of so many wonders extinguish for ever the spirit of vengeance!May the judge disappear, and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea!If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no good he too was without unity, without mind, in the ultimate stages of living; not quite man enough to make a destiny for a woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An awful company, mysteriously come together!A wild destiny for that mother to have foreseen!
-- The little half-hour was expired, the lady and gentleman were taking their little dessert and half-cup of coffee, the note was paid, the horses were ordered, they would depart immediately; but, owing to an unhappy destiny and the curse of Heaven, they were not yet gone.
-- Having reiterated this demand an immense number of times, with a sustained glare of defiance at Little Dorrit, Mr F.'s Aunt folded her arms, and sat down in the corner of the pie-shop parlour; steadfastly refusing to budge until such time as 'he' should have been 'brought for'ard,' and the chucking portion of his destiny accomplished.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.
-- But the captain, for some unknown constitutional reason, had refrained from mentioning all this, and not till forced to it by Ahab's iciness did he allude to his one yet missing boy; a little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one circumstance only, my Marianne, may your destiny be different from hers!"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A shop girl was the destiny prefigured for the newcomer.
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