arrive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 到达； (时间、 事件) 到来， 发生； 达到，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thanked her, observing, 'How lucky that we should arrive at the same moment!for, if we had met first in the drawing-room, I doubt whether you would have discerned me to be more of a gentleman than usual. You might not have distinguished how I came, by my look or manner.'
-- She rose early, and wrote her letter to Harriet; an em-ployment which left her so very serious, so nearly sad, that Mr. Knightley, in walking up to Hartfield to breakfast, did not arrive at all too soon; and half an hour stolen afterwards to go over the same ground again with him, literally and figuratively, was quite necessary to reinstate her in a proper share of the happiness of the evening before.
-- 'I was just going to tell you of our agreeable surprize in seeing him arrive this morning.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taillefer was tired of the annual application made by his daughter and her elderly friend; he gave them a personal interview in order to arrive at an understanding with them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
-- Af-ter so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying con-summation of my toils.
-- As I could not pass through the town, I was obliged to cross the lake in a boat to arrive at Plainpalais.
-- The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safety at the cottage of her lover.'
-- I revolved rapidly in my mind a multitude of thoughts and endeavoured to arrive at some conclusion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Added to her terror of being blown to pieces was her equally active terror that Melanie's baby might arrive at anymoment.
-- Mad to be away from exploding shells, desperate to get home to the quiet of Tara, sheprayed every night that the baby would arrive the next day, so she would be released from her promise and could leaveAtlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the afternoon coach by which I had taken my place, and, as winter had now come round, I should not arrive at my destination until two or three hours after dark.
-- I so shaped out my walk as to arrive at the gate at my old time.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go straight on, and in the evening you will arrive at a castle.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ambassadors arrive from the emperor of Blefuscu, and sue for peace.
-- He observed, 'that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?'
-- In the second place, I would, from my earliest youth, apply myself to the study of arts and sciences, by which I should arrive in time to excel all others in learn-ing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have undertaken then to let you know that in short, that Mr. Bounderby has informed me that he has long watched your progress with particular interest and pleasure, and has long hoped that the time might ultimately arrive when he should offer you his hand in marriage.
-- The evening come, she put on her bonnet and shawl, and went quietly out: having her reasons for hovering in a furtive way about the station by which a passenger would arrive from Yorkshire, and for preferring to peep into it round pillars and corners, and out of ladies' waiting-room windows, to appearing in its precincts openly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But then years might elapse before he would arrive at the correct solution.
-- Nevertheless, I am compelled to confess that until now we have been most remarkably fortunate, and that this voyage is being accomplished in most favorable conditions of temperature; but it appears evident, in fact, certain, that we shall sooner or later arrive at one of those regions where the central heat will reach its utmost limits, and will go far beyond all the possible gradations of thermometers.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I arrive late, you'll say a good word for me, won't you, Beth?'
-- A smart shower at eleven had evidently quenched the enthusiasm of the young ladies who were to arrive at twelve, for nobody came, and at two the exhausted family sat down in a blaze of sunshine to consume the per-ishable portions of the feast, that nothing might be lost.
-- 'The flowers are not at all nice, Amy says, and the fresh ones may not arrive in time.
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