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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An accident like this could not be remedied, and John's only resource was to fall back on his sails, and seek to make an auxiliary of his most powerful enemy, the wind.
-- This was a perfect type of the Irish colonist—a man who, weary of the miseries of his country, had come, with his family, to seek fortune and happiness beyond the seas.
-- Many come to seek fortunes who only find trouble and sorrow, and then they throw the blame on chance, and forget the true cause is their own idleness and vice and want of commonsense.
-- Hence these narrow leaves, which seek to defend themselves against the light, and prevent too great evaporation.
-- A hailstorm of extreme violence assailed the travelers, and obliged them to seek a shelter among the rocks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time Oliver lay awake, thinking it not impossible that Nancy might seek that opportunity of whispering some further advice; but the girl sat brooding over the fire, without moving, save now and then to trim the light.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration, the shock-ing rudeness of Mr. Darcy.
-- 'Elizabeth Bennet,' said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her, 'is one of those young ladies who seek to rec-ommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds.
-- Why did you not seek legal redress?'
-- Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, and seek to clear the one without involving the other.
-- But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly of their vice.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My design in this was to make the river Gambia or Senegal, that is to say anywhere about the Cape de Verde, where I was in hopes to meet with some European ship; and if I did not, I knew not what course I had to take, but to seek for the islands, or perish there among the negroes.
-- My next work was to view the country, and seek a prop-er place for my habitation, and where to stow my goods to secure them from whatever might happen.
-- nor had I any other employment, if that had been over, at least that I could foresee, except the ranging the island to seek for food, which I did, more or less, every day.
-- The 31st, in the morning, I went out into the island with my gun, to seek for some food, and discover the country; when I killed a she-goat, and her kid followed me home, which I afterwards killed also, because it would not feed.
-- How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!and by what secret different springs are the affections hurried about, as different circumstances present!To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.
-- "I certainly did not seek your confidence," said Elinor; "but you do me no more than justice in imagining that I may be depended on.
-- My first care, when I DID arrive, was of course to seek for her; but the search was as fruitless as it was melancholy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie was familiar with the names of several through the advertisements in the "Daily News," and now proceeded to seek them.
-- He had not the poetry in him that would seek a woman out under such circumstances and console her for the tragedy of life.
-- It gave her an excuse, and after encountering quite a number of them, and noting that the clock registered 12.15, she decided that it would be no use to seek further to-day, so she got on a car and went to Lincoln Park.
-- He decided to escape and seek a more secluded hotel.
-- Worst of all, she now began to feel the loneliness of the flat and seek the company of Mrs. Vance, who liked her exceedingly.
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