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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then it came out that the hedgehog was not theirs, but the property of a schoolmate, one Petroff, who had given them some money to buy Schlosser's History for him, from another schoolfellow who at that moment was driven to raising money by the sale of his books.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was really surprised to observe how rapidly the young men and women whipped away the goods displayed for sale during the day.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He smiled maliciously at Tiare, and with lamentations she told us again the story of how at the sale of Strickland's effects she had neglected the pictures, but bought an American stove for twenty-seven francs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dear me!And so it comes to pass that I hold every security you could scrape together, and a bill of sale upon the upon the stock and property,' said Quilp standing up and looking about him, as if to assure himself that none of it had been taken away.
-- But if he spoke of the delights of the atmosphere of Mr Brass's office in a literal sense, he had certainly a peculiar taste, as it was of a close and earthy kind, and, besides being frequently impregnated with strong whiffs of the second-hand wearing apparel exposed for sale in Duke's Place and Houndsditch, had a decided flavour of rats and mice, and a taint of mouldiness.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- lower than the one prevailing in the district, and Nekhludoff's income was reduced to almost one-half, but, with money realized from the sale of the timber and yet to be realized from the sale of the stock, it was amply sufficient for him.
-- There ought to be no property in land, and it ought not to be the subject of purchase and sale or renting."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In return, I signed the instrument of sale in the form which they sent from Lisbon, and sent it to my old man, who sent me the bills of exchange for thirty-two thousand eight hundred pieces of eight for the estate, reserving the payment of one hundred moidores a year to him (the old man) during his life, and fifty moidores afterwards to his son for his life, which I had promised them, and which the plantation was to make good as a rent-charge.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had given the word among his friends--and they were many and influential--that here was something which they ought to attend, and, as a consequence, the sale of tickets by Mr. Quincel, acting for the lodge, had been large.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people that BUYS the property is the suff'rers; because as soon 's it's found out 'at we didn't own it which won't be long after we've slid the sale won't be valid, and it 'll all go back to the estate.
-- Well, blamed if the king didn't bill the house and the nig-gers and all the property for auction straight off sale two days after the funeral; but anybody could buy private be-forehand if they wanted to.
-- I can't ever get it out of my memory, the sight of them poor mis-erable girls and niggers hanging around each other's necks and crying; and I reckon I couldn't a stood it all, but would a had to bust out and tell on our gang if I hadn't knowed the sale warn't no account and the niggers would be back home in a week or two.
-- No-body don't have to pay for the things they buy till a whole day after the auction on accounts of the short notice, and they ain't going out of this till they get that money; and the way we've fixed it the sale ain't going to count, and they ain't going to get no money.
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