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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then asked my master, 'whether he was willing to sell me at a good price?'
-- He was by no means satisfied with the relation I gave him of the manner I came into his kingdom, but thought it a story concerted between Glum-dalclitch and her father, who had taught me a set of words to make me sell at a better price.
-- But first they resolved to sell the goods the ship, and then go to Mad-agascar for recruits, several among them having died since my confinement.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I got a little pair of shoes by any chance, she would take 'em off and sell 'em for drink.
-- How it came to pass that any people found it worth their while to sell or buy the wretched little toys, mixed up in its window with cheap newspapers and pork (there was a leg to be raffled for to-morrow-night), matters not here.
-- 'I'll sell thee off again, and I'll sell thee off again, and I'll sell thee off a score of times!'
-- It must be admitted that he allowed her half a pound of tea a year, which was weak in him: first, because all gifts have an inevitable tendency to pauperise the recipient, and secondly, because his only reasonable transaction in that commodity would have been to buy it for as little as he could possibly give, and sell it for as much as he could possibly get; it having been clearly ascertained by philosophers that in this is comprised the whole duty of man not a part of man's duty, but the whole.
-- You know I am a sordid piece of human nature, ready to sell myself at any time for any reasonable sum, and altogether incapable of any Arcadian proceeding whatever.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I'll sell electric power.
-- Splendid!It will employ all the men again, and you won't have to sell your coal, or fail to sell it.
-- He knew he ought to find some way of USING it, or converting it, so that he needn't sell it, or needn't have the chagrin of failing to sell it.
-- But if he made electric power, could he sell that or use it?
-- Whatever you make you've got to sell it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Really so sorry that I should happen to be late on this morning of all mornings because my intention and my wish was to be ready to meet you when you came in and to say that any one that interested Arthur Clennam half so much must interest me and that I gave you the heartiest welcome and was so glad, instead of which they never called me and there I still am snoring I dare say if the truth was known and if you don't like either cold fowl or hot boiled ham which many people don't I dare say besides Jews and theirs are scruples of conscience which we must all respect though I must say I wish they had them equally strong when they sell us false articles for real that certainly ain't worth the money I shall be quite vexed,' said Flora.
-- If we didn't want to sell it for the most we can get for it, we shouldn't do it.
-- have a commodity to sell to my lady your respectable mother.
-- 'Do you sell all your friends?'
-- But he put it between his lips again, as he answered with coolness:'I sell anything that commands a price.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May's answer was inaudible, but another young lady, whose temper was evidently a little soured by making lem-onade, added, with a disagreeable laugh, 'Very lovely, for she knew she wouldn't sell them at her own table.'
-- Morals don't sell nowadays.'
-- 'There is a demand for whisky, but I think you and I do not care to sell it.
-- 'It's a fine old place, and will bring a handsome sum, for of course you intend to sell it,' said Laurie, as they were all talking the matter over some weeks later.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to-night he went out a peddling, you see, and I don't see what on airth keeps him so late, unless, may be, he can't sell his head."
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