game是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 游戏， 娱乐； 比赛； (pl. ) 运动会vi. 赌博，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：
-- Then the huntsman promised to procure as much game for him as he could possibly use at the royal table.
-- 'Surely,' said he, 'the whole sev- en must have forgotten themselves over some game of play'; and when he had waited still longer and they yet did not come, he flew into a rage and wished them all turned into ravens.
-- After a short time, when they had warmed them-selves, they said: 'Comrade, shall we have a game of cards?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a game girl you are, to be such a first-rate sister, Loo!'
-- It was very game of her, wasn't it?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two iron-shod poles, two guns, and two large game bags, were reserved for my uncle and myself.
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：
-- But I'm darned if hang-ing on waiting for a woman to go off is much of a game for a man...' This speech was one of the crucial blows of Connie's life.
-- So tiny and so utterly without fear!Even when it scampered a little, scrambling into the coop again, and disappeared under the hen's feathers in answer to the mother hen's wild alarm-cries, it was not really frightened, it took it as a game, the game of living.
-- But if you looked, you saw on the left rows of handsome 'modern' dwellings, set down like a game of dominoes, with spaces and gardens, a queer game of dominoes that some weird 'masters' were playing on the surprised earth.
-- And in front of this, the game of dominoes stood forever in a sort of surprise, waiting to be played.
-- And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies, with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpenc-es.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's well done!By Heaven!I win, however the game goes.'
-- When he had played with her in the yard, his favourite game had been to counterfeit locking her up in corners, and to counterfeit letting her out for real kisses.
-- Plornish, after a little conversation, in which he blended his former duty as a Collegian with his present privilege as a humble outside friend, qualified again by his low estate as a plasterer, took his leave; making the tour of the prison before he left, and looking on at a game of skittles with the mixed feelings of an old inhabitant who had his private reasons for believing that it might be his destiny to come back again.
-- You shall win, however the game goes.
-- But there was greater game than this.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Meg went away to 'accept with thanks', look over her dress, and sing blithely as she did up her one real lace frill, while Jo finished her story, her four apples, and had a game of romps with Scrabble.
-- They had a merry time over the bonbons and mottoes, and were in the midst of a quiet game of BUZZ, with two or three other young people who had strayed in, when Hannah appeared.
-- Jo let Laurie win the game to pay for that praise of her Beth, who could not be prevailed upon to play for them after her compliment.
-- Now, let's have a game before it gets hot, and then we'll see about dinner.'
-- Frank, Beth, Amy, and Grace sat down to watch the game played by the other eight.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
-- art not game for Moby Dick?"
-- "I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance.
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