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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After his wedding your father gave up his occupation as landsurveyor, and with his wife's dowry of fifteen thousand roubles went in for commercial speculations.
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：
-- In short, every occupation was abandoned for the time, and all other pur-suits seemed discarded in order that the tribe might freely indulge, after their own peculiar manner, in an open ex-pression of feeling.
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：
-- He told me with grim humour of the time he had spent acting as guide to Cockneys who wanted to see the night side of life in Paris; it was an occupation that appealed to his sardonic temper and somehow or other he had acquired a wide acquaintance with the more disreputable quarters of the city.
-- She looked upon venery as the natural occupation for men and women, and was ever ready with precept and example from her own wide experience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither did the place present any extraordinary aspect of life or activity, as its only human occupant was an amphibious boy in a canvas suit, whose sole change of occupation was from sitting on the head of a pile and throwing stones into the mud when the tide was out, to standing with his hands in his pockets gazing listlessly on the motion and on the bustle of the river at high-water.
-- Damp rotten houses, many to let, many yet building, many half-built and mouldering away lodgings, where it would be hard to tell which needed pity most, those who let or those who came to take children, scantily fed and clothed, spread over every street, and sprawling in the dust scolding mothers, stamping their slipshod feet with noisy threats upon the pavement shabby fathers, hurrying with dispirited looks to the occupation which brought them 'daily bread' and little more mangling-women, washer-women, cobblers, tailors, chandlers, driving their trades in parlours and kitchens and back room and garrets, and sometimes all of them under the same roof brick-fields skirting gardens paled with staves of old casks, or timber pillaged from houses burnt down, and blackened and blistered by the flames mounds of dock-weed, nettles, coarse grass and oyster-shells, heaped in rank confusion small dissenting chapels to teach, with no lack of illustration, the miseries of Earth, and plenty of new churches, erected with a little superfluous wealth, to show the way to Heaven.
-- The other that was he who took the money had rather a careful and cautious look, which was perhaps inseparable from his occupation also.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have guessed right; I have lately been so deeply en-gaged in one occupation that I have not allowed myself 62 Frankensteinsufficient rest, as you see; but I hope, I sincerely hope, that all these employments are now at an end and that I am at length free.'
-- The prospect of such an occupation made every other circumstance of existence pass before me like a dream, and that thought only had to me the reality of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, Pip," said Joe, taking up the poker, and settling himself to his usual occupation when he was thoughtful, of slowly raking the fire between the lower bars; "I'll tell you.
-- It had been placed there since my last visit, and I entered, that same day, on a regular occupation of pushing Miss Havisham in this chair (when she was tired of walking with her hand upon my shoulder) round her own room, and across the landing, and round the other room.
-- They watch you, misrepresent you, write letters about you (anonymous sometimes), and you are the torment and the occupation of their lives.
-- And, Biddy, it shall rest with you to say whether I shall work at the forge with Joe, or whether I shall try for any different occupation down in this country, or whether we shall go away to a distant place where an opportunity awaits me which I set aside, when it was offered, until I knew your answer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Louisa would suspend the occupation of the moment, whatever it was, and look for the reply as earnestly as Sissy did.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as we passed through a flat though fertile country, this occupation was slightly monotonous.
-- My uncle was most graciously received by M. Finsen, the mayor, who as far as costume went, was quite as military as the governor, but also from character and occupation quite as pacific.
-- "I very much regret," continued M. Fridriksson, "that my occupation will entirely preclude the possibility of my accompanying you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood.
-- He resumed this occupation when he was replete with beef, had sucked up all the gravy in the baking-dish with the flat of his knife, and had drawn liberally on a barrel of small beer in the scullery.
-- First, there was the subject seldom absent from his mind, the question, what he was to do henceforth in life; to what occupation he should devote himself, and in what direction he had best seek it.
-- 'I have acted on your advice; and having disembarrassed myself of an occupation that was painful to me for many reasons, wish to devote myself and what means I have, to another pursuit.'
-- As Arthur came over the stile and down to the water's edge, the lounger glanced at him for a moment, and then resumed his occupation of idly tossing stones into the water with his foot.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy meantime.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir John Middleton, who called on them every day for the first fortnight, and who was not in the habit of seeing much occupation at home, could not conceal his amazement on finding them always employed.
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