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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real name of the little man was Harris, but it had gradually merged into the less euphonious one of Trotters, which, with the prefatory adjective, Short, had been conferred upon him by reason of the small size of his legs.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Nekhludoff, besides the usual irresoluteness before marriage of people of his age, and who are not passionately in love, had an important reason for withholding his offer of marriage for the time being.
-- The reason was not that ten years before he had ruined and abandoned Katiousha, which incident he had entirely forgotten, but that at this very time he was sustaining relations with a married woman, and though he now considered them at an end, they were not so considered by her.
-- This was the reason why Nekhludoff considered that he had no right, even if he desired, to ask for the hand of Korchagin.
-- For this reason the steward's letter was disagreeable to him.
-- The fact that he spoke English, French and German fluently; that his linen, clothing, scarf and cuff-buttons were of superior make would not be sufficient reason for assuming his superiority, as he himself well understood.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw the wild folly of my frenzy overnight, and I could reason with myself.
-- And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason of the fear of the little Upperworld people for the dark.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And then there's the Butterfly,' Alice went on, after she had taken a good look at the insect with its head on fire, and had thought to herself, 'I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies!'
-- That's the reason the horse has all those anklets round his feet.'
-- Now the reason hair falls off is because it hangs down things never fall upwards, you know.
-- That must be the reason you were so untidy in my dream Dinah!do you know that you're scrubbing a White Queen?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I puts it all away, some here, some there, and none too much anywheres, by reason of suspicion.
-- But the main that's the big un, with the cloud on it they usually calls the Spy-glass, by reason of a lookout they kept when they was in the anchorage cleaning, for it's there they cleaned their ships, sir, asking your pardon."
-- "Well," said I, "that may be so, and so be it; all the more reason that I should hurry on and join my friends."
-- And you never saw me take snuff, the reason being that in my snuff-box I carry a piece of Parmesan cheese a cheese made in Italy, very nutritious.
-- 23 The Ebb-tide RunsHE coracle as I had ample reason to know before I was done with her was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both buoyant and clever in a seaway; but she was the most cross-grained, lop-sided craft to manage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we do NOT know them all if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an organisation formed to inhabit the strata inaccessible to soundings, and which an accident of some sort has brought at long intervals to the upper level of the ocean.
-- Have you any particular reason for being so incredulous?"
-- The reason is that, your identity recognised, I wished to weigh maturely what part to act towards you.
-- I see no reason for hindering them.
-- "No, sir; for that reason I am accustomed to go into the steersman's cage and myself direct our course.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People were silent when she passed, impressed, roused, wanting to jeer, yet for some reason silenced.
-- Imagine it, two boys playing together then this comes upon them, for no reason whatever out of the air.
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