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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Helena soon joined her husband on deck, quite charmed at the prospect of such exciting sport.
-- The next business was to install themselves as comfortably as they could, in prospect of a long stay.
-- The young captain was very much annoyed, however, at the prospect of emptying his coal-bunkers, for he had covered his ship with canvas, intending to take advantage of the slightest breeze.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the time that I wrote this letter to Sir Charles I had learned that there was a prospect of my regaining my free-dom if certain expenses could be met.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As soon as I had finished reading it, she told me that you were fishing for her; that you wished to compromise her so far as to receive some hopes from her, trusting to which hopes you might break with the prospect of receiving a hundred thousand roubles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, Mrs. Corney, what a prospect this opens!What a opportunity for a jining of hearts and housekeepings!'
-- There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive.
-- 'The prospect before you,' answered Rose, firmly, 'is a brilliant one.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have a sweet room here, Mr. Bingley, and a charming prospect over the gravel walk.
-- The prospect of such de-lights was very cheering, and they parted in mutual good spirits.
-- 'It was the prospect of constant society, and good soci- ety,' he added, 'which was my chief inducement to enter the shire.
-- The prospect of the Netherfield ball was extremely agree-able to every female of the family.
-- But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particu-lar notice.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure.
-- Here I meditated nothing but my escape, and what meth-od I might take to effect it, but found no way that had the least probability in it; nothing presented to make the sup-position of it rational; for I had nobody to communicate it to that would embark with me - no fellow-slave, no English-man, Irishman, or Scotchman there but myself; so that for two years, though I often pleased myself with the imagi-nation, yet I never had the least encouraging prospect of putting it in practice.
-- I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord!how was it possible I could get on shore After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dread-ful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me; neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hun-ger or being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was, that I had no weapon, -either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs.
-- All the remedy that offered to my thoughts at that time was to get up into a thick bushy tree like a fir, but thorny, which grew near me, and where I resolved to sit all night, and consider the next day what death I should die, for as yet I saw no prospect of life.
-- I had a dismal prospect of my condition; for as I was not cast away upon that island without being driven, as is said, by a violent storm, quite out of the course of our intended voyage, and a great way, viz.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity. "Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome!It would be enough to make them completely easy.
-- Her eagerness to be gone from Norland was preserved from diminution by the evident satisfaction of her daughter-in-law in the prospect of her removal; a satisfaction which was but feebly attempted to be concealed under a cold invitation to her to defer her departure.
-- The prospect in front was more extensive; it commanded the whole of the valley, and reached into the country beyond.
-- Her mother too, in whose mind not one speculative thought of their marriage had been raised, by his prospect of riches, was led before the end of a week to hope and expect it; and secretly to congratulate herself on having gained two such sons-in-law as Edward and Willoughby.
-- Beyond the entrance of the valley, where the country, though still rich, was less wild and more open, a long stretch of the road which they had travelled on first coming to Barton, lay before them; and on reaching that point, they stopped to look around them, and examine a prospect which formed the distance of their view from the cottage, from a spot which they had never happened to reach in any of their walks before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She realised that hers was not to be a round of pleasure, and yet there was something promising in all the material prospect he set forth.
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