damage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 损害， 毁坏n. (pl. ) 损害赔偿费，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：
-- Two hours more and the damage the carriage had sustained was made good.
-- Who can damage me except yourself, by bringing forward a single crime against me, or even a blameable action?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If there's damage done, put it down in the bill," and he went on ticking a list in the exercise book before him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw that the complex conditions of the life they led made the coarse proofs of his wife's guilt, required by the law, out of the question; he saw that a certain refinement in that life would not admit of such proofs being brought forward, even if he had them, and that to bring forward such proofs would damage him in the public estimation more than it would her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the damage caused by the storm in the forest, that could not as yet be ascertained; they would have to wait till the snowy covering was dissipated.
-- Also, Neb and Pencroft having gone to examine into the state of things at Port Balloon, and reported that the stock of cloth would suffer no damage in the grotto where it was stored, it was decided that the work at Prospect Heights should not be discontinued.
-- He accordingly resolved to manufacture and employ pyroxyle, although it has some inconveniences, that is to say, a great inequality of effect, an excessive inflammability, since it takes fire at one hundred and seventy degrees instead of two hundred and forty, and lastly, an instantaneous deflagration which might damage the firearms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Finches spent their money foolishly (the Hotel we dined at was in Covent Garden), and the first Finch I saw when I had the honor of joining the Grove was Bentley Drummle, at that time floundering about town in a cab of his own, and doing a great deal of damage to the posts at the street corners.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible, describing to him the use and the nature of it: and the next day the waggoners arrived with it, but not in a very good condition; they had bored two holes in the brim, within an inch and half of the edge, and fastened two hooks in the holes; these hooks were tied by a long cord to the harness, and thus my hat was dragged along for above half an Eng-lish mile; but, the ground in that country being extremely smooth and level, it received less damage than I expected.
-- Now the buildings of the outer court were at least five feet high, and it was impossible for me to stride over them without infinite damage to the pile, though the walls were strongly built of hewn stone, and four inch-es thick.
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
-- I was put to bed: however, I received no other damage than the loss of a suit of clothes, which was utterly spoiled.
-- The method I contrived was this: I prepared two round sticks, about the bigness of com-mon cudgels; they were thicker at one end than the other, and I covered the thicker ends with pieces of a mouse's skin, that by rapping on them I might neither damage the tops of the keys nor interrupt the sound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would go in and damage any subject whatever with his right, follow up with his left, stop, exchange, counter, bore his opponent (he always fought All England) to the ropes, and fall upon him neatly.
-- Regarded as a classical ruin, Mrs. Sparsit was an interesting spectacle on her arrival at her journey's end; but considered in any other light, the amount of damage she had by that time sustained was excessive, and impaired her claims to admiration.
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：
-- Wrapped up carefully to preserve it from damage and dry-rot was the old family cradle, of rosewood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Chivery parents were not ignorant of their son's attachment indeed it had, on some exceptional occasions, thrown him into a state of mind that had impelled him to conduct himself with irascibility towards the customers, and damage the business but they, in their turns, had worked it out to desirable conclusions.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain D'Wolf applied immediately to the pumps to examine whether or not the vessel had received any damage from the shock, but we found that very happily it had escaped entirely uninjured."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, I went among it to see what damage was already done, and found they had spoiled a good deal of it; but that as it was yet too green for them, the loss was not so great but that the remainder was likely to be a good crop if it could be saved.
-- If I had had hands to have refitted her, and to have launched her into the water, the boat would have done well enough, and I might have gone back into the Brazils with her eas-ily enough; but I might have foreseen that I could no more turn her and set her upright upon her bottom than I could remove the island; however, I went to the woods, and cut le-vers and rollers, and brought them to the boat resolving to try what I could do; suggesting to myself that if I could but turn her down, I might repair the damage she had received, and she would be a very good boat, and I might go to sea in her very easily.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning Drouet was interested again, but the damage had been done.
-- No severe damage was done, owing to the agility of the strikers in keeping out of reach.
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