quest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 寻找, 追求，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：
-- But his quest was not long, for in a few minutes he called out: "I've got it!‘May 30, 1862, Peru-Callao, with cargo for Glasgow, the BRITANNIA, Captain Grant.'"
-- Should a "leader" unfortunately go astray, he had to be found, cost what it might, on pain of a general disbandment, and the blacks were often long days in quest of him, before their search was successful.
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：
-- If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the event has proved, it was not impossible to find evidence of his ab-sence, though I must confess that chance has helped me in a quest which might very well have come to nothing.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hector was greatly grieved at the loss of his charioteer, but let him lie for all his sorrow, while he went in quest of another driver; nor did his steeds have to go long without one, for he presently found brave Archeptolemus the son of Iphitus, and made him get up be-hind the horses, giving the reins into his hand.
-- They went side by side for about as far as a young man can hurl a disc from his shoulder when he is trying his strength, and then Menelaus's mares drew behind, for he left off driving for fear the horses should foul one another and upset the chariots; thus, while pressing on in quest of victory, they might both come headlong to the ground.
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：
-- The hardy colonist, and the trained Europe-an who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportu-nity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.
-- The eye of the hunt-er, or scout, whichever he might be, was small, quick, keen, and restless, roving while he spoke, on every side of him, as if in quest of game, or distrusting the sudden approach of some lurking enemy.
-- In vain were the eyes of each individual bent along the oppo-site shores, in quest of some signs of life, that might explain the nature of the interruption they had heard.
-- Wearied at length by their impor-tunities, and apprehensive of irritating his captors by too stubborn a silence, the former looked about him in quest of Magua, who might interpret his answers to questions which were at each moment becoming more earnest and threaten-ing.
-- 'Tis some creature of the forest prowling around us in quest of food,' he said, in a whisper, as soon as the low, and apparently distant sounds, which had startled the Mohi-cans, reached his own ears.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mount-ed, issued forth like a knight- errant in quest of adventures.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waiting was a strain, and it was decided that Hunter and I should go ashore with the jolly-boat in quest of information.
-- All the lockfast places had been broken open in quest of the chart.
-- Add to this double apprehension the mystery that still hung over the behaviour of my friends, their unexplained desertion of the stockade, their inexplicable cession of the chart, or harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver, "Look out for squalls when you find it," and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast and with how uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "After all, the happiest voyage is the quest of Rupert's Blessed Isles."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I departed to renew my search; its result was disappointment, and Joseph's quest ended in the same.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fatigued as she had been by the morning's walk they had no sooner dined than she set off again in quest of her former acquaintance, and the evening was spent in the satisfactions of a intercourse renewed after many years' dis-continuance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She still screamed and sobbed lustily, kicked her two brothers for offering to touch her, and all their united soothings were ineffectual till Lady Middleton luckily remembering that in a scene of similar distress last week, some apricot marmalade had been successfully applied for a bruised temple, the same remedy was eagerly proposed for this unfortunate scratch, and a slight intermission of screams in the young lady on hearing it, gave them reason to hope that it would not be rejected. She was carried out of the room therefore in her mother's arms, in quest of this medicine, and as the two boys chose to follow, though earnestly entreated by their mother to stay behind, the four young ladies were left in a quietness which the room had not known for many hours.
-- After a few moments' chat, John Dashwood, recollecting that Fanny was yet uninformed of her sister's being there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to improve her acquaintance with Robert, who, by the gay unconcern, the happy self-complacency of his manner while enjoying so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confirming her most unfavourable opinion of his head and heart.
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