procure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. (努力) 取得; 获得，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：
-- The whole party then returned to the ship, after arranging a rendezvous with Ayrton, and ordering him to procure the necessary means of conveyance across the country.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet this was an explana-tion that did not procure him any peace of mind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But a man may feel himself unworthy sometimes to rise to that height," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, conscious of hypocrisy in admitting this religious height, but at the same time unable to bring himself to acknowledge his free-thinking views before a person who, by a single word to Pomorsky, might procure him the coveted appointment.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fogg had left English ground, and it was now necessary to procure his extradition!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was known that they were a little acquainted; but not a syl-lable of real information could Emma procure as to what he truly was.
-- They must be separated; but there was a great deal of pain in the process so much to herself at this time, that she soon felt the necessity of a little consolation, and resolved on going home by way of Randalls to procure it.
-- But I must be more in want of a friend, or an agreeable companion, than I have yet been, to take the trouble of conquering any body's reserve to procure one.
-- Acquit me here, and procure for me, when it is allowable, the acquittal and good wishes of that said Emma Woodhouse, whom I regard with so much brotherly affection, as to long to have her as deeply and as happily in love as myself. Whatever strange things I said or did during that fortnight, you have now a key to.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you cannot otherwise procure the whole of the money, and are forced to sell our aunt's lace, tell her that I will send her some still handsomer," and so forth.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the mean-time he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
-- When I re-turned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.
-- He then took me into his labora-tory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promis-ing me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.
-- I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little wa-ter when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, pass-ing before my hovel.
-- Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden and the milk of one cow, which gave very little during the winter, when its masters could scarcely procure food to support it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread.
-- Then the huntsman promised to procure as much game for him as he could possibly use at the royal table.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That, if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a struldbrug, as soon as I could discover my own hap-piness, by understanding the difference between life and death, I would first resolve, by all arts and methods, what-soever, to procure myself riches.
-- I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was nei-ther physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, house-breakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, stroll-ing whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the ship as far off shore as possible; loaded and ran out his two cannon from the bows; stacked his muskets on the poop; and warning the Islanders not to approach the ship at their peril, took one man with him, and setting the sail of his best whale-boat, steered straight before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a reinforcement to his crew.
-- "'Nay,' said Don Sebastian; 'but I know a worthy priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then it occurred to me again, how well I was furnished for my subsistence, and what would have been my case if it had not happened (which was a hundred thousand to one) that the ship floated from the place where she first struck, and was driven so near to the shore that I had time to get all these things out of her; what would have been my case, if I had been forced to have lived in the condition in which I at first came on shore, without necessaries of life, or necessar-ies to supply and procure them?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Sir John returned, he joined most heartily in the general regret on so unfortunate an event; concluding however by observing, that as they were all got together, they must do something by way of being happy; and after some consultation it was agreed, that although happiness could only be enjoyed at Whitwell, they might procure a tolerable composure of mind by driving about the country.
-- Impatient in this situation to be doing something that might lead to her sister's relief, Elinor resolved to write the next morning to her mother, and hoped by awakening her fears for the health of Marianne, to procure those inquiries which had been so long delayed; and she was still more eagerly bent on this measure by perceiving after breakfast on the morrow, that Marianne was again writing to Willoughby, for she could not suppose it to be to any other person.
-- For HIM she felt much compassion; for Lucy very little and it cost her some pains to procure that little; for the rest of the party none at all.
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