foundation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 基础， 根本， 建立， 创立； 地基， 基金， 基金会，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if you are conscious yourself of even the smallest foundation for them, then I beg you to think a little, and if your heart prompts you, to speak out to me..." Alexey Alexandrovitch was unconsciously saying something utterly unlike what he had prepared.
-- Yes, she will tell me directly what she told me before; that there is no foundation for my suspicions, that it's absurd."
-- The delight he had experienced in the work itself, and the consequent greater intimacy with the peasants, the envy he felt of them, of their life, the desire to adopt that life, which had been to him that night not a dream but an intention, the execution of which he had thought out in detail --all this had so transformed his view of the farming of the land as he had managed it, that he could not take his former interest in it, and could not help seeing that unpleasant relation between him and the workspeople which was the foundation of it all.
-- Levin and he were very friendly, and so Levin used to venture to sound Sviazhsky, to try to get at the very foundation of his view of life; but it was always in vain.
-- In order to work out the whole subject theoretically and to complete his book, which, in Levin's daydreams, was not merely to effect a revolution in political economy, but to annihilate that science entirely and to lay the foundation of a new science of the relation of the people to the soil, all that was left to do was to make a tour abroad, and to study on the spot all that had been done in the same direction, and to collect conclusive evidence that all that had been done there was not what was wanted.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at these great strapping girls, Arrowsmith!Never been sick a day in their lives--practically--and though Mother does have her sick- headaches, that's to be attributed to the early neglect of her diet, because while her father, the old deacon--and a fine upstanding gentleman of the old school he was, too, if there ever was one, and a friend of Nathaniel Mugford, to whom more than any other we owe not only the foundation of Mugford College but also the tradition of integrity and industry which have produced our present prosperity--BUT he had no knowledge of diet or sanitation, and I've always thought--" The daughters were introduced as Orchid, Verbena, Daisy, Jonquil, Hibisca, Narcissa, and the twins, Arbuta and Gladiola.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excuse me, allow me to assure you that the report which has reached you, or rather, let me say, has been conveyed to you, has no foundation in truth, and I 芒聙娄 suspect who 芒聙娄 in a word 芒聙娄 this arrow 芒聙娄 in a word, your mamma 芒聙娄 She seemed to me in other things, with all her excellent qualities, of a somewhat high-flown and romantic way of thinking芒聙娄.
-- and not only that!There's an attraction here here you have the end of the world, an anchorage, a quiet haven, the na-vel of the earth, the three fishes that are the foundation of the world, the essence of pancakes, of savoury fish- pies, of the evening samovar, of soft sighs and warm shawls, and hot stoves to sleep on as snug as though you were dead, and yet you're alive the advantages of both at once!Well, hang it, brother, what stuff I'm talking, it's bedtime!Listen.
-- What foundation have they?
-- He found him incredibly inattentive and irritable, though he, Andrey Semyonovitch, began enlarging on his favourite subject, the foundation of a new special 'commune.'
-- We might be-gin it to-day, we will talk it over this evening and lay the foundation so to speak.
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 angry at that falsereport, until finding myself on my back in the passage, I began tothink there might be some foundation for it.
-- You have laid a foundation that any edifice may be raisedupon; and is it not a pity that you should devote the spring-time ofyour life to such a poor pursuit as I can offer?'
-- But how little you think of the rightful umblenessof a person in my station, Master Copperfield!Father and me wasboth brought up at a foundation school for boys; and mother, she 532was likewise brought up at a public, sort of charitable,establishment.
-- Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that natureand accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation withconfidence.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had already satisfied herself that he thought Harriet a beautiful girl, which she trusted, with such frequent meet-ings at Hartfield, was foundation enough on his side; and on Harriet's there could be little doubt that the idea of be-ing preferred by him would have all the usual weight and efficacy.
-- 'I always told you she was a little; but you will soon overcome all that part of her reserve which ought to be over-come, all that has its foundation in diffidence.
-- 'I see no probability in it, unless you have any better foundation than what you mention.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Troy was full of activity, but his activities were less of a locomotive than a vegetative nature; and, never being based upon any original choice of foundation or direction, they were exercised on whatever object chance might place in their way.
-- Her tone and mien signified beyond mistake that the seed which was to lift the foundation had taken root in the chink: the remainder was a mere question of time and natural changes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was in the secret of the famous scarcity of grain, and laid the foundation of his fortune in those days by selling flour for ten times its cost.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood on the blackened foundation stones of the burned building,looked down the long avenue of trees leading toward the road and swore lustily, with a joy too deep for thankfulprayer.
-- She looked toward thehouse and instead of the old white clapboard place she knew so well, she saw there only a long rectangle of blackenedgranite foundation stones and two tall chimneys rearing smoke-stained bricks into the charred leaves of still trees.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of reward-ing merit, great abilities, eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for em-ployments persons qualified to exercise them, with many other wild, impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, 'that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational, which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.'
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