seek是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (after， for) 寻找， 探索； 试图， 企图，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm a going to seek my Em'ly.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers.
-- As Harriet now lived, the Martins could not get at her, without seek-ing her, where hitherto they had wanted either the courage or the condescension to seek her; for since her refusal of the brother, the sisters never had been at Mrs. Goddard's; and a twelvemonth might pass without their being thrown together again, with any necessity, or even any power of speech.
-- Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him? Was it new for any thing in this world to be unequal, inconsistent, incongruous or for chance and circumstance (as second causes) to direct the human fate?
-- He had despaired at one period; he had received such an injunction to caution and silence, as for the time crushed every hope; she had begun by refus-ing to hear him. The change had perhaps been somewhat sudden; her proposal of taking another turn, her renew-ing the conversation which she had just put an end to, might be a little extraordinary! She felt its inconsistency; but Mr. Knightley was so obliging as to put up with it, and seek no farther explanation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned to an opening in the hedge, which he found to be a gate, and mounting thereon, he sat meditating whether to seek a cheap lodging in the village, or to ensure a cheaper one by lying under some hay or corn-stack.
-- On inquiring for her at her house they had told him she was at the sheep-washing, and he went off to seek her there.
-- A composite feeling, made up of disgust with the, to him, humdrum tediousness of a farmer's life, gloomy images of her who lay in the churchyard, remorse, and a general averseness to his wife's society, impelled him to seek a home in any place on earth save Weatherbury.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first he determined to fling himself heart and soul into his work, but he was diverted from this purpose by the need of society and connections; then he saw how great an influence women exert in social life, and suddenly made up his mind to go out into this world to seek a protectress there.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom, and he replied, 'To seek one who fled from me.'
-- You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
-- He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.
-- At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.
-- I wish to prepare you for the woeful news, but I know it is impossible; even now your eye skims over the page to seek the words which are to convey to you the horrible tidings.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am not a soldier and I have nodesire to seek the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.
-- Perhaps all men didthis!It was bad enough that they forced their wives to go through such indecent performances but to actually seek outlow women and pay them for such accommodation!Oh, men were so vile, and Rhett Butler was the worst of them all!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After glancing at him once or twice, in an increased state of smouldering ferocity, I said,--"Mr. Drummle, I did not seek this conversation, and I don't think it an agreeable one."
-- That I was ashamed to tell him exactly how I was placed, and what I had come down to, I do not seek to conceal; but I hope my reluctance was not quite an unworthy one.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
-- 219THE QUEEN BEE wo kings' sons once upon a time went into the world Tto seek their fortunes; but they soon fell into a wasteful foolish way of living, so that they could not return home again.
-- Then their brother, who was a little insignificant dwarf, went out to seek for his brothers: but when he had found them they only laughed at him, to think that he, who was so young and simple, should try to travel through the world, when they, who were so much wiser, had been unable to get on.
-- I have been to the sun, the moon, and the night-wind, to seek thee, and at last I have helped thee to 264 Grimms' Fairy Talesovercome the dragon.
-- Next morning the king sent his people out to seek the track, but it was all in vain, for in every street poor chil-dren were sitting, picking up peas, and saying: 'It must have rained peas, last night.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their live-lihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poison-ing, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations:' every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.
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