sale是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 出售， 上市； 贱卖， 廉价出售； 销售额，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poulterers' and grocers' trades became a splendid joke; a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impos-sible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the idea that he might be let on by his interests, that he might seek a reconciliation with his wife on account of the sale of the forest--that idea hurt him.
-- He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not give him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification.
-- Levin knew that his elder brother took little interest in farming, and only put the question in deference to him, and so he only told him about the sale of his wheat and money matters.
-- The stupid sale of the forest, the fraud practiced upon Oblonsky and concluded in his house, exasperated him.
-- A few weeks before, Konstantin Levin had written to his brother that through the sale of the small part of the property, that had remained undivided, there was a sum of about two thousand roubles to come to him as his share.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pete conducted what he called a "drug store," devoted to the sale of candy, soda water, patent medicines, fly paper, magazines, washing-machines, and Ford accessories, yet Pete would have starved if he had not been postmaster also.
-- He had bought thirty of them and they were on sale at the bank at seventy-five cents apiece.
-- The only variation is the Weeks in which the object is not to acquire money immediately by the sale of tags but by general advertising to get more of it later.
-- He went from mathematics into physical chemistry; began to understand the mass action law; became as sarcastic as Terry about what he called the "bedside manner" of Tubbs and Holabird; read much French and German; went canoeing on the Hudson on Sunday afternoons; and had a bawdy party with Leora and Terry to celebrate the day when the Institute was purified by the sale of Holabird's pride, Gladys the Centrifuge.
-- He patented the process of synthesizing his quinine derivative and retired to Birdies' Rest, to build a laboratory out of his small savings and spend a life of independent research supported by a restricted sale of sera and of his drug.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was so young and childish, and so little qualified- how could I beotherwise?to undertake the whole charge of my own existence, thatoften, in going to Murdstone and Grinby's, of a morning, I couldnot resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half-price at the pastry-cooks' doors, and spent in that, the money I should have kept formy dinner.
-- Feeling that I could go but a very little way that day,if I were to reserve any strength for getting to my journey's end, Iresolved to make the sale of my jacket its principal business.
-- She gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me verymuch, namely, that there had been a sale of the furniture at our oldhome, and that Mr. and Miss Murdstone were gone away, and thehouse was shut up, to be let or sold.
-- With awasherwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlour-window, dwelling next door, and a Bow-street officer residing overthe way, you may imagine that his society is a source ofconsolation to myself and to Mrs. Micawber.
-- I am at present, mydear Copperfield, engaged in the sale of corn upon commission.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was now some time since Miss Taylor had begun to in-fluence his schemes; but as it was not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth, it had not shaken his determination of never settling till he could purchase Randalls, and the sale of Randalls was long looked forward to; but he had gone steadily on, with these objects in view, till they were accom-plished.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The editor, sensing the social drama ofthe letter, put it on the second page of the paper, in itself a startling innovation, as the first two pages of the paper werealways devoted to advertisements of slaves, mules, plows, coffins, houses for sale or rent, cures for private diseases,abortifacients and restoratives for lost manhood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were printed bills on the gate and on bits of carpet hanging out of the windows, announcing a sale by auction of the Household Furniture and Effects, next week.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At five minutes past twelve o'clock next day, he directed Mrs. Bounderby's property to be carefully packed up and sent to Tom Gradgrind's; advertised his country retreat for sale by private contract; and resumed a bachelor life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I beg Mr Dorrit to offer a thousand apologies and indeed they would be far too few for such an intrusion which I know must appear extremely bold in a lady and alone too, but I thought it best upon the whole however difficult and even apparently improper though Mr F.'s Aunt would have willingly accompanied me and as a character of great force and spirit would probably have struck one possessed of such a knowledge of life as no doubt with so many changes must have been acquired, for Mr F. himself said frequently that although well educated in the neighbourhood of Blackheath at as high as eighty guineas which is a good deal for parents and the plate kept back too on going away but that is more a meanness than its value that he had learnt more in his first years as a commercial traveller with a large commission on the sale of an article that nobody would hear of much less buy which preceded the wine trade a long time than in the whole six years in that academy conducted by a college Bachelor, though why a Bachelor more clever than a married man I do not see and never did but pray excuse me that is not the point.'
-- They brought with them a basket, filled with choice selections from that stock in trade which met with such a quick sale and produced such a slow return.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In its filthy shops are exposed for sale huge bunches of second-hand silk handkerchiefs, of all sizes and patterns; for here reside the traders who purchase them from pick-pockets.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything the good man said was full of affection, and I could hardly refrain from tears while he spoke; in short, I took one hundred of the moidores, and called for a pen and ink to give him a receipt for them: then I returned him the rest, and told him if ever I had possession of the plantation I would return the other to him also (as, indeed, I afterwards did); and that as to the bill of sale of his part in his son's ship, I would not take it by any means; but that if I wanted the money, I found he was honest enough to pay me; and if I did not, but came to receive what he gave me reason to expect, I would never have a penny more from him.
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