occupation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 占领， 占据； 占用； 职业， 工作，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This courts,' said Scrooge,' through which we hurry now, is where my place of occupation is, and has been for a length of time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards nine o'clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect, and, presenting as respectable and business-like an exterior as he could overlay his natural self with, issued forth to the occupation of the day.
-- 'The occupation resumed under the influence of this passing affliction so happily recovered from,' said Mr. Lor-ry, clearing his throat, 'we will call Blacksmith's work, Blacksmith's work.
-- it chanced that they derived a kind of security from the patriotic occupation of the main building, but the true-hearted old gentleman never calculated about that.
-- 'My mind misgives me much,' said Mr. Lorry, angrily 437shaking a forefinger at him, 'that you have used the respect-able and great house of Tellson's as a blind, and that you have had an unlawful occupation of an infamous descrip-tion.
-- So used are the regular inhabitants of the houses to the spectacle, that in many windows there are no people, and in some the occupation of the hands is not so much as suspended, while the eyes survey the faces in the tumbrils.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary, he needed occupation and distraction quite apart from his love, so as to recruit and rest himself from the violent emotions that agitated him.
-- And so, just as before, only by occupation in the day, by morphine at night, could she stifle the fearful thought of what would be if he ceased to love her.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not entirely ignorant of caresses but he did not make an occupation of them.
-- "Dr. M. Arrowsmith of Wheatsylvania is being congratulated, we are informed by our valued pioneer local physician, Dr. Adam Winter, by the medical fraternity all through the Pony River Valley, there being no occupation or profession more unselfishly appreciative of each other's virtues than the medical gentlemen, on the courage and enterprise he recently displayed in addition to his scientific skill.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll agree it's an occupation of a sort.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had abundant occupation for mythoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.
-- My occupation of Peggotty'sspare-room put a constraint upon me, from which he was free: for,knowing how assiduously she attended on Mr. Barkis all day, I didnot like to remain out late at night; whereas Steerforth, lying at theinn, had nothing to consult but his own humour.
-- For my own part, my occupation in my solitary pilgrimages was torecall every yard of the old road as I went along it, and to hauntthe old spots, of which I never tired.
-- Coming before me on this particular evening that I mention,mingled with the childish recollections and later fancies, the ghostsof half-formed hopes, the broken shadows of disappointmentsdimly seen and understood, the blending of experience andimagination, incidental to the occupation with which my thoughtshad been busy, it was more than commonly suggestive.
-- She laid her hand on myarm, and hurried me on to one of the sombre streets, of which thereare several in that part, where the houses were once fair dwellingsin the occupation of single families, but have, and had, longdegenerated into poor lodgings let off in rooms.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had still a small house in High-bury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.
-- This would not do; she immediately stopped, under pretence of having some alteration to make in the lacing of her half-boot, and stooping down in com-plete occupation of the footpath, begged them to have the goodness to walk on, and she would follow in half a minute.
-- The visit was of course short; and there was so much embarrassment and occupation of mind to shorten it, that Emma would not allow herself entirely to form an opinion of the lady, and on no account to give one, beyond the nothing-meaning terms of being 'elegantly dressed, and very pleasing.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be ungallant to suggest that the novelty of her engagement in such an occupation had almost as much to do with the magnetism as had the beauty of her face and movements.
-- A woman was out of the question in such an occupation at this hour, and the comer could be no less than a thief, who might probably have known the weakness of the household on this particular night, and have chosen it on that account for his daring attempt.
-- Then the great objection he had felt to allowing news of his proximity to precede him to Weatherbury in the event of his return, based on a feeling that knowledge of his present occupation would discredit him still further in his wife's eyes, returned in full force.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene feared that his neighbor had been taken ill; he went over and looked through the keyhole; the old man was busily engaged in an occupation so singular and so suspicious that Rastignac thought he was only doing a piece of necessary service to society to watch the self- styled vermicelli maker's nocturnal industries.
-- Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to its recent occupation by a wedding party.
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