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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah,' said Elsie, 'have I not reason to weep?
-- 'Ah, dear Hans,' said Elsie, 'if we marry each other and have a child, and he is big, and we perhaps send him here to draw something to drink, then the pick-axe which has been left up there might dash his brains out if it were to fall down, so have we not reason to weep?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages re-lating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the min-ute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied.
-- Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- If the censure of the Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain, that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain, and have gone so far as to drop hints, that the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos have no more existence than the inhabitants of Utopia.
-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have systematically devoted myself (as you know) to the education of the reason of my family.
-- The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed.
-- 'And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of to-day, though in itself a trifling one, as if something had crept into Thomas's and Louisa's minds which is or rather, which is not I don't know that I can express myself better than by saying which has never been intended to be developed, and in which their reason has no part.'
-- 'There certainly is no reason in looking with interest at a parcel of vagabonds,' returned Bounderby.
-- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The very reason why you should go up.
-- I had every reason to believe that we had neither wild beasts nor savage natives to fear.
-- The natives called it the tablecloth, probably from some such reason as the dwellers in the Cape of Good Hope call their mountain Table Mountain, and their roads Table Bay.
-- He then turned to Hans, and asked him to give some reason for this decisive response.
-- I had every reason to believe from this that our descent was far more horizontal than vertical.
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：
-- Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
-- Set the mind and the reason to cock it over the rest, and all they can do is to criticize, and make a deadness.
-- Do you see any reason why we shouldn't?'
-- And she felt her reason would give way, or she would die.
-- And for this reason Connie found them not very interesting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well! Jeremiah then says to me, "As to banns, next Sunday being the third time of asking (for I've put 'em up a fortnight), is my reason for naming Monday.
-- He had no sooner turned the handle than the visitor saw Little Dorrit, and saw the reason of her setting so much store by dining alone.
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