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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ship came within half a league of this creek, and sent her long boat with vessels to take in fresh water (for the place, it seems, was very well known); but I did not ob-serve it, till the boat was almost on shore; and it was too late to seek another hiding-place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wandering to and fro, unceasingly, without hope, and in search of he knew not what (he only knew that he was doomed to seek it), he was the subject of a nameless, horrible dread, a mortal fear of one particular shape which everything took.
-- I mun turn my face fro Coketown fur th' time, and seek a fort'n, dear, by beginnin fresh.'
-- 'I didn't seek it of him, poor lad.
-- I seek to repair what is amiss, if I possibly can; and I hope you will assist me in a good spirit, Bounderby, for I have been very much distressed.'
-- Soon as I come out of the Mill to-night, I hastened to hear what was said of Stephen for I know wi' pride he will come back to shame it! and then I went again to seek Mr. Bounderby, and I found him, and I told him every word I knew; and he believed no word I said, and brought me here.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At the approach of an eruption these spouts of vapor redouble their activity--to disappear altogether during the period of volcanic eruption; for the elastic fluids, no longer having the necessary tension, seek refuge in the interior of the crater, instead of escaping through the fissures of the earth.
-- Let us sup now, and seek slumber as best we may."
-- Travelers who bury themselves in the wilds and depths of the African desert, who seek profit and pleasure in the forests of the New World, are compelled to take it in turn to watch during the hours of sleep; but in this region of the earth absolute solitude and complete security reigned supreme.
-- This was the only word of reproach which came to my lips; for I thoroughly understood how deeply and sorrowfully the worthy Professor would regret my loss, and how in his turn he would patiently seek for me.
-- I cast hasty glances aloft at the suspended vapors, and I seek to penetrate their mighty depths.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then suffered them to seek the fire, as before; but with the frown fixed above them, as if the sculptor of old Egypt had indented it in the hard granite face, to frown for ages.
-- But no small cabaret for a straitened traveller being within sight, he had to seek one round the dark corner, where the cabbage leaves lay thickest, trodden about the public cistern at which women had not yet left off drawing water.
-- First, there was the subject seldom absent from his mind, the question, what he was to do henceforth in life; to what occupation he should devote himself, and in what direction he had best seek it.
-- But there were circumstances attending my ha slight knowledge of Mr Clennam (it was very slight), which,' here Mr Dorrit became extremely grave and impressive, 'would render it highly indelicate in Mr Clennam to ha to seek to renew communication with me or with any member of my family under existing circumstances.
-- 'So far from it, I hum have come to seek information.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Once on a time, a knight went out into the world to seek his fortune, for he had nothing but his sword and his shield.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance.
-- 'I seek a passage in this ship to Tarshish; how soon sail ye, sir?'
-- For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts, when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth into the sea, for he knew that for his sake this great tempest was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to save the ship.
-- Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans, it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet.
-- His broad fins are bored, and scalloped out like a lost sheep's ear!And here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race; till a weariness and faintness of pondering came over him; and in the open air of the deck he would seek to recover his strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune, some long way off.
-- Mr. Fagin did not seek to conceal his share in the catastrophe, but lamented with tears in his eyes that the wrong-headed and treacherous behaviour of the young person in question, had rendered it necessary that he should become the victim of certain evidence for the crown: which, if it were not precisely true, was indispensably necessary for the safety of him (Mr. Fagin) and a few select friends.
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