find是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (found， found) 找到； 发现； 发觉； 感到，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute.
-- Scrooge asked the question, because he didn't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a con-dition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrass-ing explanation.
-- Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.
-- Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Pe-ter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in hon-our of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fash-ionable Parks.
-- 'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,' returned the Ghost, 'will find him here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (You will find a fine sea-coal fire, sir.)
-- It was told me by the Bank that the gentleman would explain to me the details of the business, and that I must prepare myself to find them of a surprising nature.
-- But when he did find spoken words for it, they came to him coherently, though slowly.
-- If you will lock the door to secure us from interruption, I do not doubt that you will find him, when you come back, as quiet as you leave him.
-- It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the odd circumstance connected with Mr. Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay.
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：
-- 'Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!This stuff must be woven for me immediately.'
-- 'As to a pavement, I can find no traces of one, and all the lamps, it seems, have gone to sleep.'
-- He was unable to find the bridge: there was no railway either.
-- 'I must go back to the New Market; there, it is to be hoped, I shall find some coaches; for if I don't, I shall never get safe to Christianshafen.'
-- 'I mean those new fangled novels, twisting and writhing themselves in the dust of commonplace, which also expect to find a reading public.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "On one side it's a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and I'm neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side" (he stammered) "it's a means for the coterie of the district to make money.
-- "I sent to find out where he is living, and sent him his IOU to Trubin, which I paid.
-- From his brother's Levin went to Oblonsky's office, and on getting news of the Shtcherbatskys from him, he drove to the place where he had been told he might find Kitty.
-- Chapter 9 At four o'clock, conscious of his throbbing heart, Levin stepped out of a hired sledge at the Zoological Gardens, and turned along the path to the frozen mounds and the skating ground, knowing that he would certainly find her there, as he had seen the Shtcherbatskys' carriage at the entrance.
-- But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout had been a sort of vagrant in his early years, and now yearned for repose; but so far he had failed to find it, though he had already served in ten English houses.
-- Would he not find himself, when travelling by steamer in winter, at the mercy of the winds and fogs?
-- Fix," said the consul, "I like your way of talking, and hope you'll succeed; but I fear you will find it far from easy.
-- He was pleased, on the day after leaving Suez, to find on deck the obliging person with whom he had walked and chatted on the quays.
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