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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For that reason I live near the broad free downland, and can escape thither when this shadow is over my soul; and very sweet is the empty downland then, under the wind-swept sky.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
-- The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsports-manlike to touch him.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After simpering in a small way, like one whose modesty prohib-ited a more open expression of his admiration of a witticism that was perfectly unintelligible to his hearers, he contin-ued, 'It is not prudent for any one of my profession to be too familiar with those he has to instruct; for which reason I follow not the line of the army; besides which, I conclude that a gentleman of your character has the best judgment in matters of wayfaring; I have, therefore, decided to join company, in order that the ride may be made agreeable, and partake of social communion.'
-- 'There is reason in an Indian, though nature has made him with a red skin!'
-- Six hours the waters run in, and six hours they run out, and the reason is this: when there is higher water in the sea than in the river, they run in until the river gets to be highest, and then it runs out again.'
-- In this manner, pools and ponds, and even the great fresh-water lakes, may be stagnant, as you and I both know they are, having seen them; but when you come to spread water over a great tract, like the sea, where the earth is round, how in reason can the water be quiet?
-- interrupted Heyward, 'it will not do we must think of some other scheme and yet, I have much reason to believe the rascal has deceived me.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts except in our long-established Dutch communities.
-- The bridge became more than ever an object of superstitious awe; and that may be the reason why the road has been altered of late years, so as to approach the church by the border of the mill-pond.
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：
-- To avoid the tedium of dining tete-a-tete, to give their servants a rest, because there was no reason to refuse, because they were "owed" a dinner.
-- He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker; but there was no reason to waste one's time over him.
-- I pictured their lives, troubled by no untoward adventure, honest, decent, and, by reason of those two upstanding, pleasant children, so obviously destined to carry on the normal traditions of their race and station, not without significance.
-- He had some reason to conceal the fact that he had run away with a woman, and he was using every precaution to hide her whereabouts.
-- "There's no reason why you shouldn't live with him in Paris for a year.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, our brave settlers had reason to be satisfied, and Pencroft was lavish in his praise of what he humorously called, "his apartments on the fifth floor above the ground!"
-- "There are heaps of fuel, and no reason for sparing it."
-- The dog had reason to be surprised, as he did not know Natural History.
-- There is a reason for that, and to me it is that Lincoln Island may have formerly been a part of some vast continent which had gradually sunk below the Pacific."
-- In short, the colonists had reason to be extremely satisfied, for this chest contained tools, weapons, instruments, clothes, books; and this is the exact list of them as stated in Gideon Spilett's note- book: Tools: 3 knives with several blades, 2 woodmen's axes, 2 carpenter's hatchets, 3 planes, 2 adzes, 1 twibil or mattock, 6 chisels, 2 files, 3 hammers, 3 gimlets, 2 augers, 10 bags of nails and screws, 3 saws of different sizes, 2 boxes of needles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and yet for some hidden reason they were all angry with the widow, and each lady whispered in her neighbour's ear that it was very plain that said widow thought herself the person referred to, and what a puss she was!
-- Here was the very thing he wanted, here was good cause reason and foundation for pretending to be angry; but having this cause reason and foundation which he had come expressly to seek, not expecting to find, Richard Swiveller was angry in sound earnest, and wondered what the devil Cheggs meant by his impudence.
-- The poor woman, who had no cause to doubt her son, but every reason for relying on his honesty and truth, was staggered, notwithstanding, by his not having advanced one word in his defence.
-- Kit, who knew no particular reason why he should keep the matter secret now, related the purpose for which he had come on that occasion, and the proposal he had made.
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