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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season, yet putting it down instantly to their great fondness for ivy in winter-time, of which a great deal grew in the plantation, he followed through the hedge.
-- Obliged, to some extent, to forgo dreaming in order to find the way, he reached the churchyard, and passed round it under the wall where several ancient trees grew.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You expect in such places as these to find the weather-house whence a Capuchin issues on wet days; you look to find the execrable engravings which spoil your appetite, framed every one in a black varnished frame, with a gilt beading round it; you know the sort of tortoise-shell clock-case, inlaid with brass; the green stove, the Argand lamps, covered with oil and dust, have met your eyes before.
-- There was the same kind of charm about her too slender form, her faintly colored face and light-brown hair, that modern poets find in mediaeval statuettes; and a sweet expression, a look of Christian resignation in the dark gray eyes.
-- Vauquer exhausted the vocabulary of abuse, and failed to find words that did justice to the banker's iniquitous conduct; but while they heaped execrations on the millionaire, Victorine's words were as gentle as the moan of the wounded dove, and affection found expression even in the cry drawn from her by pain.
-- The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
-- Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.
-- I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I 18 Frankensteinshould find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
-- 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.
-- In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa.
-- I little expected, in this enlightened and scientific age, to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And we can hear all the news of the Troop and find out whatcolor they finally decided on for the uniforms."
-- If I can just see himprivately before supper, perhaps I'll find out the truth that it's just one of the twins' nasty practical jokes.
-- James and Andrew might have some advice to offer on this subject of marriage, and there might be daughtersamong their old friends who would both meet his requirements and find him acceptable as a husband.
-- Ellen finished and Gerald, who could never find his beads at prayer time, began furtively counting his decade onhis fingers.
-- She would find some way!And then Scarlett came abruptly out of her dream of delight, for she had neglected to make the responses and her motherwas looking at her reprovingly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find it wery hard to hold that young man off of your inside.
-- Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
-- I knew Mrs. Joe's housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.
-- Chapter IVI fully expected to find a Constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me up.
-- A man needn't go far to find a subject, if he's ready with his salt-box."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a lit-tle way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
-- Then the fox said, 'Do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel; I know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.
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