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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In days gone by he remembered how he had looked at her beautiful eyes, how even then he had marvelled at their dark myste-rious depths, and at their wondering gaze which seemed to seek an answer to some unknown riddle.
-- He was particularly anxious that this one day should be passed especially the evening without unpleasantness between himself and his family; and just at the right mo-ment the prince turned up 'as though Heaven had sent him on purpose,' said the general to himself, as he left the study to seek out the wife of his bosom.
-- I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.'
-- The miscreants have written a tissue of calumny in their article, and these are the men who seek for truth, and do battle for the right!
-- Oh!what a lot of things I wanted!Now I want nothing; I renounce all my wants; I swore to myself that I would want nothing; let them seek the truth without me!
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, Patroclus, bring her and give her to them, but let them be witnesses by the blessed gods, by mortal men, and by the fierceness of Agamemnon's anger, that if ever again there be need of me to save the people from ruin, they shall seek and they shall not find.
-- Go, then, to the temple of Minerva, while I seek Paris and exhort him, if he will hear my words.
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：
-- 'Seek you any here?'
-- demanded a new speaker; 'the place you advise us to seek we left this morning, and our destination is the head of the lake.'
-- muttered the white man, on whom the sole control of their future move-ments appeared to devolve; 'it would be time lost to cut their throats, and cast them into the river; and to leave them here would be to tell the Mingoes that they have not far to seek to find their owners!'
-- Twenty times the gourd or the venison was suspended before his lips, while his head was turned aside, as though he listened to some distant and distrusted sounds a movement that never failed to recall his guests from regarding the novelties of their situation, to a recollection of the alarming reasons that had driven them to seek it.
-- Pass into the other cave, you that need it, and seek for sleep; we must be afoot long before the sun, and make the most of our time to get to Edward, while the Mingoes are taking their morning nap.'
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：
-- But I seek refuge in no such excuses.
-- The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
-- Who am I that I should seek to unravel the mysterious intricacies of sex?
-- It was vain to seek the analysis of his emotion.
-- He begged me to repeat to her that he loved her still; he would reproach her for nothing, but desired only to help her; he made no claim on her, and on her recovery would not seek to induce her to return to him; she would be perfectly free.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harding then thought that the western coast would have offered refuge, either to a ship in distress, or to a vessel in her regular course; but now, as he saw that this coast presented no good anchorage, he wished to seek on the south what they had not been able to find on the west.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still casting about for some plausible means of accounting for their non-appearance, and of persuading himself that they must soon return, he bent his steps towards home, intending to finish the task which the sudden recollection of his contract had interrupted, and then to sally forth once more to seek his fortune for the day.
-- The men and boys were playing at cricket on the green; and as the other folks were looking on, they wandered up and down, uncertain where to seek a humble lodging.
-- Fearful of taking shelter beneath a tree or hedge, the old man and the child hurried along the high road, hoping to find some house in which they could seek a refuge from the storm, which had now burst forth in earnest, and every moment increased in violence.
-- If he should return there was no lock or bolt upon the door, and if, distrustful of having left some money yet behind, he should come back to seek for more a vague awe and horror surrounded the idea of his slinking in again with stealthy tread, and turning his face toward the empty bed, while she shrank down close at his feet to avoid his touch, which was almost insupportable.
-- And this had passed into such a habit with him, that, if he could not be correctly said to have his tongue at his fingers' ends, he might certainly be said to have it anywhere but in his face: which being, as we have already seen, of a harsh and repulsive character, was not oiled so easily, but frowned above all the smooth speeches one of nature's beacons, warning off those who navigated the shoals and breakers of the World, or of that dangerous strait the Law, and admonishing them to seek less treacherous harbours and try their fortune elsewhere.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "_Seek the truth and the Kingdom of God, and the rest will come of itself._ We seek that which is to come, and do not find it, and not only do we not build the Kingdom of God, but we destroy it.
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