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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My idea was to procure clothing to make myself a muffled but acceptable figure, to get money, and then to recover my books and parcels where they awaited me, take a lodging somewhere and elaborate plans for the complete realisation of the advantages my invisibility gave me (as I still imagined) over my fellow-men.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sons, in short square-skirted coats, with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fash-ion of the times, especially if they could procure an eelskin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They must, in fact, prepare some provisions and procure more strengthening food than eggs and molluscs.
-- The particular object of their expedition was, as has been said, to procure the greatest possible quantity of game for the inhabitants of the Chimneys.
-- The sailor, extremely vexed, tried in all sorts of ways to procure fire.
-- However, they were obliged to give up, for this night at least, the attempt to procure fire.
-- He amused the engineer by the history of the single match, then his abortive attempt to procure fire in the savages' way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Richard Swiveller's apartments were in the neighbourhood of Drury Lane, and in addition to this convenience of situation had the advantage of being over a tobacconist's shop, so that he was enabled to procure a refreshing sneeze at any time by merely stepping out upon the staircase, and was saved the trouble and expense of maintaining a snuff-box.
-- CHAPTER 20Day after day as he bent his steps homeward, returning from some new effort to procure employment, Kit raised his eyes to the window of the little room he had so much commended to the child, and hoped to see some indication of her presence.
-- Mrs Jiniwin being very fond of cards was carefully excluded by her son-in-law from any participation in the game, and had assigned to her the duty of occasionally replenishing the glasses from the case-bottle; Mr Quilp from that moment keeping one eye constantly upon her, lest she should by any means procure a taste of the same, and thereby tantalising the wretched old lady (who was as much attached to the case-bottle as the cards) in a double degree and most ingenious manner.
-- It was not very easy to procure a direction to the fold in question, as none of the neighbours were of the flock that resorted thither, and few knew anything more of it than the name.
-- While we have no doubt of that, or that a proper use of it would procure the poor lad's immediate pardon and liberation, we have a great doubt whether it would, by itself, enable us to reach Quilp, the chief agent in this villany.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the history of every prisoner was known to everyone in prison, she knew Maslova's history, and advised him to procure her removal to the ward for politicals, or, at least, to the hospital, which was just now crowded, requiring a larger staff of nurses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the next place, I hoped to procure some means of fire, so that I should have the weapon of a torch at hand, for nothing, I knew, would be more efficient against these Morlocks.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The animal came in time for us to procure real quadruped meat, and he was well received.
-- "Then it was to procure fresh meat for my crew.
-- Unknown to the crew, I have been able to procure food and some bottles of water."
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