origin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 起源， 由来； 出身， 来历，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：
-- This region of the globe is so underlaid with volcanic fires and the volcanoes of recent origin are such insufficient safety valves for the subterranean vapors, that shocks are of frequent occurrence, and are called by the people TREMBLORES.
-- "I don't know what to think," replied the geographer; "Maria Theresa is a spot little known; nevertheless, it would not be surprising if its origin were due to some submarine upheaval, and consequently it may be volcanic."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he had never connected these scientific deductions as to the origin of man as an animal, as to reflex action, biology, and sociology, with those questions as to the meaning of life and death to himself, which had of late been more and more often in his mind.
-- In spite of the magnificent harvest, never had there been, or, at least, never it seemed to him, had there been so many hindrances and so many quarrels between him and the peasants as that year, and the origin of these failures and this hostility was now perfectly comprehensible to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The conversation (which seemed to have been concerning the origin of the fire) immediately ceased, and every one ocularly criticised him to the degree expressed by contracting the flesh of their foreheads and looking at him with narrowed eyelids, as if he had been a light too strong for their sight.
-- Here, in the quiet of Boldwood's parlour, where everything that was not grave was extraneous, and where the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week, the letter and its dictum changed their tenor from the thoughtlessness of their origin to a deep solemnity, imbibed from their accessories now.
-- The letter must have had an origin and a motive.
-- The vast porches at the sides, lofty enough to admit a waggon laden to its highest with corn in the sheaf, were spanned by heavy-pointed arches of stone, broadly and boldly cut, whose very simplicity was the origin of a grandeur not apparent in erections where more ornament has been attempted.
-- Fanny's face was framed in by that yellow hair of hers; and there was no longer much room for doubt as to the origin of the curl owned by Troy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doubtless my words surprised Henry; he at first believed them to be the wander-ings of my disturbed imagination, but the pertinacity with which I continually recurred to the same subject persuaded him that my disorder indeed owed its origin to some un-common and terrible event.
-- 'Why do you call to my remembrance,' I rejoined, 'cir-cumstances of which I shudder to reflect, that I have been the miserable origin and author?
-- My father's care and attentions were indefatigable, but he did not know the origin of my sufferings and sought erro- neous methods to remedy the incurable ill.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If this really be the case, its origin can be attributed to only one cause--that of the continued action of subterranean fires.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this was the origin of a series of Sunday excursions that these two curious companions made together.
-- A generous nature is not prone to strong aversions, and is slow to admit them even dispassionately; but when it finds ill-will gaining upon it, and can discern between-whiles that its origin is not dispassionate, such a nature becomes distressed.
-- Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Devil-Dam, I do not know the origin of; Tit-bit is obvious; Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes.
-- For at that time, and indeed until a comparatively late day, the precise origin of ambergris remained, like amber itself, a problem to the learned.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here I must needs observe, that as rea-son is the substance and origin of the mathematics, so by stating and squaring everything by reason, and by making the most rational judgment of things, every man may be, in time, master of every mechanic art.
-- I endeavoured to clear up this fraud to my man Friday; and told him that the pretence of their old men going up to the mountains to say O to their god Benamuckee was a cheat; and their bringing word from thence what he said was much more so; that if they met with any answer, or spake with any one there, it must be with an evil spirit; and then I entered into a long discourse with him about the devil, the origin of him, his rebellion against God, his enmity to man, the reason of it, his setting himself up in the dark parts of the world to be worshipped instead of God, and as God, and the many stratagems he made use of to delude mankind to their ruin; how he had a secret access to our passions and to our affections, and to adapt his snares to our inclinations, so as to cause us even to be our own tempters, and run upon our destruction by our own choice.
-- In this manner I set out from Lisbon; and our company being very well mounted and armed, we made a little troop, whereof they did me the honour to call me captain, as well because I was the oldest man, as because I had two servants, and, indeed, was the origin of the whole journey.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bad indeed must the nature of Marianne's affliction be, when her mother could talk of fortitude!mortifying and humiliating must be the origin of those regrets, which SHE could wish her not to indulge!
-- That crime has been the origin of every lesser one, and of all his present discontents."
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