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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- Chapter XIXMorning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same.
-- And I might have gone, my dear Herbert, but for the prospect of taking counsel with your friendship and affection."
-- You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since,--on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets.
-- "My dear fellow," said Herbert, "let the near prospect of our separation--for, it is very near--be my justification for troubling you about yourself.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This I was afterwards told, for I durst not stay to see the issue of the adventure; but ran as fast as I could the way I first went, and then climbed up a steep hill, which gave me some prospect of the country.
-- In jour-neys, when I was weary of the coach, a servant on horseback would buckle on my box, and place it upon a cushion before him; and there I had a full prospect of the country on three sides, from my three windows.
-- The only difficulty that remained, was to persuade my wife, whose consent however I at last obtained, by the prospect of ad-vantage she proposed to her children.
-- We were in a chamber, from whence there was a fair prospect into the park.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak, upon hearing these remarks, became more curious to observe her features, but this prospect being denied him by the hooding effect of the cloak, and by his a脙芦rial position, he felt himself drawing upon his fancy for their details.
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
-- OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS SNOW A MEETINGFor dreariness nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of a certain town and military station, many miles north of Weatherbury, at a later hour on this same snowy evening if that may be called a prospect of which the chief constituent was darkness.
-- In other directions, the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow, that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred; and in general there was here, too, that before-mentioned preternatural inversion of light and shade which attends the prospect when the garish brightness commonly in the sky is found on the earth, and the shades of earth are in the sky.
-- Amaranthine glosses came over them then, and the unresting world wheeled her round to a contrasting prospect eastward, in the shape of indecisive and palpitating stars.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyag-es which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole.
-- His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
-- 'My children,' she said, 'my firmest 39hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
-- This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was happy, pleasantly excited over the prospect of spending the day shouting about the Yankees and the war,and proud of his three pretty daughters in their bright spreading hoop skirts beneath foolish little lace parasols.
-- Charles was not excited over the prospect of marrying her, for she stirred in him none of the emotions of wild romancethat his beloved books had assured him were proper for a lover.
-- The prospect looked brighter to Scarlett, so bright in fact thatshe turned beaming eyes on Charles and smiled from pure joy.
-- She leaped to her feet, her heart hammering so wildly she feared she could not stand, hammering with the thrill ofbeing the center of attention again, of being the most highly desired girl present and oh, best of all, at the prospect ofdancing again.
-- Melly rallied to the defense, though white and frightened at the prospect of facing the fire-eating Mr. O'Hara.
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