invest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 投资, 购买; 授予，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I swear, it don't hardly pay to invest in mortgages any longer.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have been able to invest them with none of those characteristics which make the persons of a book exist with a real life of their own; and, wondering if the fault is mine, I rack my brains to remember idiosyncrasies which might lend them vividness.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Just think!One might invest all one's money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The insult had occurred on a day when Pitty wished to draw five hundred dollars from herestate, of which he was trustee, to invest in a non-existent gold mine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, though she had taken such strong possession of me, though my fancy and my hope were so set upon her, though her influence on my boyish life and character had been all-powerful, I did not, even that romantic morning, invest her with any attributes save those she possessed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?
-- People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing in good interest.
-- Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
-- Whatever superstitions the sperm whalemen in general have connected with the sight of this object, certain it is, that a glimpse of it being so very unusual, that circumstance has gone far to invest it with portentousness.
-- The unflinching earnestness with which he declared these things; the dark, daring play of his sleepless, excited imagination, and all the preternatural terrors of real delirium, united to invest this Gabriel in the minds of the majority of the ignorant crew, with an atmosphere of sacredness.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He contributed nothing for the domestic expenses of the family, but was thought to be saving his money to invest in real estate.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it you'll spend it.'
-- She hove up the bag of money and put it in the king's hands, and says, 'Take this six thousand dollars, and invest for me and my sisters any way you want to, and don't give us no receipt for it.'
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