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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, Neb," replied Gideon Spilett, "and we will find him too!"
-- Let us have patience, and at low water it is possible we may find a fordable passage."
-- In three hours we will attempt the passage, and once on the other side, we will try to get out of this scrape, and I hope may find the captain."
-- "Stop here, my boy," said the sailor; "we have to prepare an encampment, and to try and find rather better grub than these shell-fish.
-- There is wood in the forest, and eggs in nests; we have only to find a house."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think he would have amused one anywhere, but the child's exquisite enjoyment of his oddity, and the relief it was to find that there was something she associated with merriment in a place that appeared so unsuited to her, were quite irresistible.
-- I'll bet that I'd find her if she was above ground, I would, as quick as anybody, master.
-- What could take him from home by night, and every night!I called up all the strange tales I had ever heard of dark and secret deeds committed in great towns and escaping detection for a long series of years; wild as many of these stories were, I could not find one adapted to this mystery, which only became the more impenetrable, in proportion as I sought to solve it.
-- Nobody venturing to dispute these positions, he proceeded to observe that the human hair was a great retainer of tobacco-smoke, and that the young gentlemen of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quantities of apples to conceal any scent of cigars from their anxious friends, were usually detected in consequence of their heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour to find in the resources of science a means of preventing such untoward revelations, they might indeed be looked upon as benefactors to mankind.
-- In a few minutes Mr Quilp returned, and expressed the utmost surprise to find her in this condition, which he did very naturally and with admirable effect, for that kind of acting had been rendered familiar to him by long practice, and he was quite at home in it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first he intended to find her and the child, but as it pained him very much, and he was ashamed to think of it, he did not make the necessary efforts, and gradually ceased to think of his sin.
-- His fear of the disgrace that would fall upon him if everybody in the court-room were to find out his conduct toward her stifled the struggle that was going on within him.
-- From all that occurred at the trial and his knowledge of Maslova, Nekhludoff was convinced that she was innocent, and at first was confident that the other jurors would so find her, but when he saw that because of the merchant's bungling defense of Maslova, evidently prompted by his undisguised liking for her, and the foreman's resistance which it caused, but chiefly because of the weariness of the jury, there was likely to be a verdict of guilty, he wished to make objection, but feared to speak in her favor lest his relations toward her should be disclosed.
-- "We find her guilty, but without the intent to rob, and without stealing any property--is that correct?"
-- It is necessary to find grounds for appeal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I determined to descend and find where I could sleep.
-- Still, I must be calm and patient, find its hiding-place, and recover it by force or cunning.
-- In the end you will find clues to it all.'
-- I could find no machinery, no appliances of any kind.
-- I could not find it at first; but, after a time in the profound obscurity, I came upon one of those round well-like openings of which I have told you, half closed by a fallen pillar.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind.
-- said the King, looking up anxiously into the fire, as if he thought that was the most likely place to find one.
-- The King immediately fell flat on his back, and lay perfectly still: and Alice was a little alarmed at what she had done, and went round the room to see if she could find any water to throw over him.
-- However, she could find nothing but a bottle of ink, and when she got back with it she found he had recovered, and he and the Queen were talking together in a frightened whisper so low, that Alice could hardly hear what they said.
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