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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infir-mities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was very young, and she p. 8looked as if she were frightened by the matter-of-fact prospect the world afforded.
-- You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such sulky blotch upon the prospect without a town.
-- The first four days of his endurance were days so long and heavy, that he began to be appalled by the prospect before him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of going without food and sleep was not a promising one, so I determined to do my best to solve the mystery.
-- We crouched on the raft ready to fire at them at a moment's notice, poor as the prospect of hurting or terrifying them was.
-- How the remembrance of the spiced sausage, the wheaten loaf, and the beer, made my mouth water now!I would have given every prospect of worldly wealth for such a meal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That from the son set forth that Mr Clennam would, he knew, be gratified to hear that he had at length obtained permanent employment of a highly satisfactory nature, accompanied with every prospect of complete success in life; but that the temporary inability of his employer to pay him his arrears of salary to that date (in which condition said employer had appealed to that generous forbearance in which he trusted he should never be wanting towards a fellow-creature), combined with the fraudulent conduct of a false friend and the present high price of provisions, had reduced him to the verge of ruin, unless he could by a quarter before six that evening raise the sum of eight pounds.
-- Indeed, when the two maids came in (escorted by the courier, lest any one should strike them dumb by addressing a foreign language to them on the road), there was a prospect of too much assistance.
-- It was quite a walk, by mysterious staircases and corridors, from Mrs General's apartment, hoodwinked by a narrow side street with a low gloomy bridge in it, and dungeon-like opposite tenements, their walls besmeared with a thousand downward stains and streaks, as if every crazy aperture in them had been weeping tears of rust into the Adriatic for centuries to Mr Dorrit's apartment: with a whole English house-front of window, a prospect of beautiful church-domes rising into the blue sky sheer out of the water which reflected them, and a hushed murmur of the Grand Canal laving the doorways below, where his gondolas and gondoliers attended his pleasure, drowsily swinging in a little forest of piles.
-- It was probably owing to this fortification of the natural strength of his constitution with so much exposure to the air, and the salt sea, that Mr Sparkler did not pine outwardly; but, whatever the cause, he was so far from having any prospect of moving his mistress by a languishing state of health, that he grew bluffer every day, and that peculiarity in his appearance of seeming rather a swelled boy than a young man, became developed to an extraordinary degree of ruddy puffiness.
-- She was then dining alone, and her solitary dinner had been brought in from somewhere, over a kind of brazier with a fire in it, and she had no company or prospect of company, that I could see, but the old man who had brought it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg, in the other boat, was delightfully situated, face to face with the rowers, who both admired the prospect and feathered their oars with uncommon 'skill and dexterity'.
-- She only said, 'Thank you, deary,' but something in her face made the girls change the subject, and talk as cheerfully as they could about Mr. Brooke's kindness, the prospect of a fine day tomorrow, and the happy times they would have when Father came home to be nursed.
-- And Jo's eyes went slowly round the room, brightening as they looked, for the prospect was a pleasant one.
-- Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.
-- He paused discreetly at a distance when Brooke disappeared, but he could both see and hear, and be-ing a bachelor, enjoyed the prospect mightily.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us.
-- The prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I could see.
-- I looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one.
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
-- And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known separate feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in crossing the widest expanses of water between those grounds he could, by his art, so place and time himself on his way, as even then not to be wholly without prospect of a meeting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.
-- Indeed, the worthy gentleman, stimulated perhaps by the immediate prospect of being on active service, was in great spirits and good humour; in proof whereof, it may be here remarked, that he humourously drank all the beer at a draught, and did not utter, on a rough calculation, more than four-score oaths during the whole progress of the meal.
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