sell是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 卖， 出售，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It would be no pleasure to aLondon tradesman to sell anything which was what he pretendedit was.'
-- What they have done with them since; whether theyhave lost many, or whether they sell any, now and then, to thebutter-shops; I don't know.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be taking out my free-dom. I dare say they sell gloves.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I'll sell it, and sit under thatched hurdles as they did in old times, and curl up to sleep in a lock of straw!It played me nearly the same trick the other day!"
-- I rather cling to the chaise, because it is the same my poor father and mother drove, but if you don't like it I will sell it, and you shall have a pony-carriage of your own.
-- The alternative is dreadful, but take Bathsheba; I give her up!She must love you indeed to sell soul and body to you so utterly as she has done.
-- "I was fortunate enough to sell them all just as we got upon the hill, so we hadn't to pen at all."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would marry again, sell her boarding-house, give her hand to this fine flower of citizenship, become a lady of consequence in the quarter, and ask for subscriptions for charitable purposes; she would make little Sunday excursions to Choisy, Soissy, Gentilly; she would have a box at the theatre when she liked, instead of waiting for the author's tickets that one of her boarders sometimes gave her, in July; the whole Eldorado of a little Parisian household rose up before Mme.
-- "So the wheel turns," said Vautrin; "yesterday night at a duchess' ball, this morning in a money-lender's office, on the lowest rung of the ladder--just like a Parisienne!If their husbands cannot afford to pay for their frantic extravagance, they will sell themselves.
-- They must drink the water from some particular spring--it is stagnant as often as not; but they will sell their wives and families, they will sell their own souls to the devil to get it.
-- Sell some of your old jewelry, my kind mother; I will give you other jewels very soon.
-- If you cannot otherwise procure the whole of the money, and are forced to sell our aunt's lace, tell her that I will send her some still handsomer," and so forth.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If I didn't do so much for those trashy Slatterys that they'd have to pay money for elsewhere," fumed Gerald,"they'd be willing to sell me their miserable few acres of swamp bottom, and the County would be well rid of them."
-- But you, obstinate creature that you are, are still refusing to sell us your finebeasts."
-- Have you thought thatwe would not have a single warship and that the Yankee fleet could bottle up our harbors in a week, so that we couldnot sell our cotton abroad?
-- To make matters worse, there was only one railroad line from Wilmington to Richmond and, while thousands ofbarrels of flour and boxes of bacon spoiled and rotted in wayside stations for want of transportation, speculators withwines, taffetas and coffee to sell seemed always able to get their goods to Richmond two days after they were landed atWilmington.
-- And I'll sell my boats to some foolish Englishmanwho thinks he can slip them through.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here's the cook lying insensibly drunk on the kitchen floor, with a large bundle of fresh butter made up in the cupboard ready to sell for grease!"
-- I'd sell all the friends I ever had for one, and think it a blessed good bargain.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I won't sell him at all,' said the father; 'my own flesh and blood is dearer to me than all the silver and gold in the world.'
-- So the woodman at last said he would sell Tom to the strangers for a large piece of gold, and they paid the price.
-- 'Well,' said they, 'you are come back, and we will not sell you again for all the riches in the world.'
-- They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds.
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