reason是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 原因， 理性， 理智v. 推理， 说服， 辩论， 讨论，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jacob stooped to the God-forgive-me, which was a two-handled tall mug standing in the ashes, cracked and charred with heat: it was rather furred with extraneous matter about the outside, especially in the crevices of the handles, the innermost curves of which may not have seen daylight for several years by reason of this encrustation thereon formed of ashes accidentally wetted with cider and baked hard; but to the mind of any sensible drinker the cup was no worse for that, being incontestably clean on the inside and about the rim.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed.
-- Her father was persuaded that he had sufficient reason for declining to acknowledge her, and allowed her a bare six hundred francs a year; he had further taken measures to disinherit his daughter, and had converted all his real estate into personalty, that he might leave it undivided to his son.
-- Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
-- As soon as she saw that her blandishments were in vain, and 莽卢卢11 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 that her outlay on her toilette was money thrown away, she was not slow to discover the reason of his indifference.
-- With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances, she was wont to reason thus: "If Father Goriot had daughters of his own as rich as those ladies who came here seemed to be, he would not be lodging in my house, on the third floor, at forty-five francs a month; and he would not go about dressed like a poor man."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica she looked so frank-hearted and happy.
-- Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each oth-er's blood.
-- He was a Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years, when, for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government.
-- 'A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apart-ment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Con-stantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.
-- I entreat you not to reason with me any more.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was for this precise reason that Stuart and Brent were idling on the porch of Tara this April afternoon.
-- "Just because we've been away and didn't know about thebarbecue and the ball, that's no reason why we shouldn't get plenty of dances tomorrow night.
-- Many had moved for no reason at all, except thatthe restless blood of pioneering fathers still quickened in their veins.
-- The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason forlearning it.
-- It never interested her enough to try to think out the reason for it, for she knew nothing of theinner workings of any human being's mind, not even her own.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it at all; or why, if she did wear it at all, she should not have taken it off, every day of her life.
-- "Dressed like you, you know, only with a hat," I explained, trembling; "and--and"--I was very anxious to put this delicately--"and with--the same reason for wanting to borrow a file.
-- Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
-- But I loved Joe,--perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him,--and, as to him, my inner self was not so easily composed.
-- Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that if I did, he would think me worse than I was.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For this very reason have I come here,' the tailor replied, 'I am ready to enter the king's service.'
-- The bird complained to the dog of this bare-faced robbery, but nothing he said was of any avail, for the dog answered that he found false credentials on the sausage, and that was the reason his life had been forfeited.
-- 'Ah,' she answered, 'have I not reason to weep?
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