attain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 获得; 达到，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This might end in a delay of many days, and Glenarvan, impatient to succeed, could brook no delay, in his eagerness to attain his object.
-- He allowed an hour for this orgy of blood to attain its maximum and then cease, and the final scene of the obsequies was performed with the accustomed ceremonial.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will say nothing to add to his anxieties, but I will take my own steps to attain my own end.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now by pleading their rights alone, they will never attain all this, so the white horse, with his rider Death, comes next, and is followed by Hell.
-- The undoubtedly astonished, but now more col-lected, General Epanchin had several times endeavoured to interrupt the prince, and not having succeeded he was now preparing to take firmer and more vigorous measures to attain his end.
-- In order to attain to perfection, one must begin by failing to understand much.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have only to go stubbornly on towards my aim, and I shall attain my end," thought Levin; "and it's something to work and take trouble for.
-- Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attain its highest manifestations only by conjunction with all kinds of art.
-- This concentration of the footman upon his lamps, and his indifference to what was passing in Levin, at first astounded him, but immediately on considering the question he realized that no one knew or was bound to know his feelings, and that it was all the more necessary to act calmly, sensibly, and resolutely to get through this wall of indifference and attain his aim.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not enough to reach the walls; an opening in them must be accomplished, and to attain this purpose the party only had their pocket-knives.
-- That gentleman was really ruined, and that at the moment when he was about to attain his end.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was assailed by inquirers: public health officials, one Dr. Almus Pickerbaugh, a congressman who was said to be popular in Washington, Gustaf Sondelius, and a Martin Arrowsmith who could not (whether because he was too big or too small) quite attain Gottlieb's concentrated indifference.
-- But she often said that she was never allowed to attain her one ambition: to sit and read.
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：
-- Oh, yes, some attain their ends in this life, and then 芒聙娄' 'They begin executing other people?'
-- When we quarrelled, I usually held my tongue and did not irritate her and that gentlemanly conduct rarely failed to attain its object, it influenced her, it pleased her, indeed.
-- But now I see again how foolish I was, for you can attain any position you like by your intellect and talent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is my intention, my dearCopperfield, to educate my son for the Church; I will not deny thatI should be happy, on his account, to attain to eminence.'
-- 'When he grew into the better understanding of what he haddone, he saw it, and repented of it!I could sing to him, and talk tohim, and show the ardour that I felt in all he did, and attain withlabour to such knowledge as most interested him; and I attractedhim.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Gerald could never attain elegance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I moved my ears along the side of the place I was in, I found a mathematical point as it were, where the voices appeared to attain their maximum of intensity.
-- But if they feel a degree of cold in proportion to the elevation they attain in the atmosphere, we experienced quite a contrary effect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hard as she had tried in her laborious life to attain many ends, she had never tried harder than she did now, to be varnished by Mrs General.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now Carrie had attained that which in the beginning seemed life's object, or, at least, such fraction of it as human beings ever attain of their original desires.
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