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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lost prospect of a jour-ney as sole passenger with this quarrelsome sot was not one to mourn over.
-- It grew blanker the more I turned the prospect over.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see no enemies!They have sickened of a struggle in which they risk so much with so little prospect of gain!'
-- Faint and almost despairing as was the prospect of es-cape, the words of Duncan were not thrown away, for it awakened the powers of the sisters in such a manner that they awaited the results in silence.
-- Mile after mile was, however, passed through the bound-less woods, in this painful manner, without any prospect of a termination to their journey.
-- See,' she continued, as if determined to shake off infirmity, in a sense of duty; 'look around you, Major Heyward, and tell me what a prospect is this for the daughter of a soldier whose greatest happiness is his honor and his military renown.'
-- 'You showed knowledge in the shaping of a birchen bark, Uncas, when you chose this from among the Huron canoes,' said the scout, smiling, apparently more in satisfaction at their superiority in the race than from that prospect of final escape which now began to open a little upon them.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see her was a delight that never staled, and even though he had not been out an hour he was as excited at the prospect as if they had been parted for a month.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate, there was only one thing to be done to await the return of Neb and the reporter; but they must give up the feast of hard eggs which they had meant to prepare, and a meal of raw flesh was not an agreeable prospect either for themselves or for the others.
-- To the islet upon which the castaways had first landed, the name of Safety Island; to the plateau which crowned the high granite precipice above the Chimneys, and from whence the gaze could embrace the whole of the vast bay, the name of Prospect Heights.
-- As to the points of the compass, the engineer had roughly fixed them by the height and position of the sun, which placed Union Bay and Prospect Heights to the east.
-- Herbert and Pencroft the one young and the other very boyish were enchanted, and while walking, the sailor said, "Hey, Herbert!how capital it sounds!It will be impossible to lose ourselves, my boy, since, whether we follow the way to Lake Grant, or whether we join the Mercy through the woods of the Far West, we shall be certain to arrive at Prospect Heights, and, consequently, at Union Bay!"
-- As to the trees, which some hundred feet downwards shaded the banks of the creek, they belonged, for the most part, to the species which abound in the temperate zone of America and Tasmania, and no longer to those coniferae observed in that portion of the island already explored to some miles from Prospect Heights.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Late as the Dutch clock showed it to be, the poor woman was still hard at work at an ironing-table; a young child lay sleeping in a cradle near the fire; and another, a sturdy boy of two or three years old, very wide awake, with a very tight night-cap on his head, and a night-gown very much too small for him on his body, was sitting bolt upright in a clothes-basket, staring over the rim with his great round eyes, and looking as if he had thoroughly made up his mind never to go to sleep any more; which, as he had already declined to take his natural rest and had been brought out of bed in consequence, opened a cheerful prospect for his relations and friends.
-- With that they parted; Mr Swiveller to make the best of his way home and sleep himself sober; and Quilp to cogitate upon the discovery he had made, and exult in the prospect of the rich field of enjoyment and reprisal it opened to him.
-- The lady of the caravan sat at one window in all the pride and poetry of the musical instruments, and little Nell and her grandfather sat at the other in all the humility of the kettle and saucepans, while the machine jogged on and shifted the darkening prospect very slowly.
-- He was very patient and willing, happy to execute any little task, and glad to be of use; but he was in the same listless state, with no prospect of improvement a mere child a poor, thoughtless, vacant creature a harmless fond old man, susceptible of tender love and regard for her, and of pleasant and painful impressions, but alive to nothing more.
-- Being now penniless, and no relief or prospect of relief appearing, they retraced their steps through the deserted streets, and went back to the wharf, hoping to find the boat in which they had come, and to be allowed to sleep on board that night.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either hand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both eyes and glasses, a little dazzled, it is true, by the prospect of two thousand dollars, had not an instant's repose.
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