prospect是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 景色; 前景; vi. 勘探; 寻找，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is there' it was the good creature's way to affect to make light of anything that was a great anxiety with them all, and to come at it in this chance manner 'is there any prospect yet, of our getting out of this place?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew Anna Arkadyevna, but only very slightly, and she came now to her sister's with some trepidation, at the prospect of meeting this fashionable Petersburg lady, whom everyone spoke so highly of.
-- The greater number of the middle-aged people and certain great personages were displeased at the prospect of the impending scandal in society.
-- Kitty wrote that no prospect was so alluring as to spend the summer with Dolly at Ergushovo, full of childish associations for both of them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of so frightful an existence drives these poor creatures to the sacrifice much more than love or religious fanaticism.
-- But he was more disturbed at the prospect of her future fate.
-- It seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across the vicissitudes of life, and to conduct them, as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious Smith, who doubtless was the chief ornament of that delightful place, to all eternity.
-- A little while before, when there was no prospect of proceeding on the journey, he had made up his mind to leave Fort Kearney; but now that the train was there, ready to start, and he had only to take his seat in the car, an irresistible influence held him back.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The purpose of life was chemistry and physics and the prospect of biology next year.
-- The prospect of leaving his sheltered den for the patronage of the Reverend Mr. Hinkley was intolerable.
-- he said to Leora; but on them both was the cumulative dread of the fussing voices, beyond every breezy prospect was the order, "Be back at six sharp"; and they whipped up to arrive at eleven minutes to six, as Mr. Tozer was returning from the creamery, full thirty seconds later than usual.
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：
-- For coming out of V Prospect towards the square, he saw on the left a passage leading between two blank walls to a courtyard.
-- Prospect just now.
-- He ended by indicating the stone in the yard off the Voznesensky Prospect under which the purse and the trinkets were found.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mine was a quiet back-garret with a sloping roof,commanding a pleasant prospect of a timber-yard, and when I tookpossession of it, with the reflection that Mr. Micawber's troubleshad come to a crisis at last, I thought it quite a paradise.
-- I had grown to be so accustomed to the Micawbers, and had beenso intimate with them in their distresses, and was so utterlyfriendless without them, that the prospect of being thrown uponsome new shift for a lodging, and going once more amongunknown people, was like being that moment turned adrift intomy present life, with such a knowledge of it ready made, asexperience had given me.
-- His bedstead, covered with a tumbledand ragged piece of patchwork, was in the den he had come from,where another little window showed a prospect of more stinging-nettles, and a lame donkey.
-- I was greatly elated by these orders;but my heart smote me for my selfishness, when I witnessed theireffect on Mr. Dick, who was so low-spirited at the prospect of ourseparation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, aftergiving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.
-- I suppose the opening prospect confused me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wed-ding over, and the bride-people gone, her father and herself were left to dine together, with no prospect of a third to cheer a long evening.
-- Miss Woodhouse was so great a personage in Highbury, that the prospect of the introduction had given as much panic as pleasure; but the humble, grateful little girl went off with highly gratified feelings, delighted with the affability with which Miss Woodhouse had treated her all the evening, and actually shaken hands with her at last!
-- With Tuesday came the agreeable prospect of seeing him again, and for a longer time than hitherto; of judging of his general manners, and by inference, of the meaning of his manners towards herself; of guessing how soon it might be necessary for her to throw coldness into her air; and of fan-cying what the observations of all those might be, who were now seeing them together for the first time.
-- 310 EmmaChapter XIIOne thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely satisfactory to Emma its being fixed for a day within the granted term of Frank Churchill's stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr. Weston's confidence, she could not think it so very impossible that the Churchills might not allow their nephew to remain a day beyond his fort-night.
-- May is the very month which Mrs. Churchill is ordered, or has ordered herself, to spend in some warmer place than Enscombe in short, to spend in London; so that we have the agreeable prospect of frequent visits from Frank the whole spring precisely the season of the year which one should have chosen for it: days almost at the longest; weather genial and pleasant, always inviting one out, and never too hot for exercise.
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