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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If, on the contrary, we DO know all living kinds, we must necessarily seek for the animal in question amongst those marine beings already classed; and, in that case, I should be disposed to admit the existence of a gigantic narwhal.
-- But in the meanwhile I must seek this narwhal in the North Pacific Ocean, which, to return to France, was taking the road to the antipodes.
-- I would not even seek to understand the caprice which had decided Captain Nemo upon entering the gulf.
-- "In that case, I should seek to make myself master of the pinnace.
-- But I had guessed that, whatever the motive which had forced him to seek independence under the sea, it had left him still a man, that his heart still beat for the sufferings of humanity, and that his immense charity was for oppressed races as well as individuals.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why seek to draw a brand and a curse across the life that had caused the accident?
-- And he had not the power, or the will, to seek it out and to know it.
-- She was free of it all, she could seek a new union elsewhere.
-- He must withdraw, he must seek reinforcements.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll have to seek for her shoes in the bog to morrow.
-- It struck me soon, however, there would be more sense in endeavouring to repair some of his wrongs than shedding tears over them: I got up and walked into the cou rt to seek him.
-- She jumped up in a fine fright, flung Hareton on to the settle, and ran to seek for her friend herself; not taking leisure to consider why she was so flurried, or how her talk would have affected him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something must speedily be resolved upon, and it occurred to us at last to go forth together and seek help in the neighbouring hamlet.
-- And I was going to sea myself, to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig-tailed singing seamen, to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasure!
-- I'm off to seek it for you, and that itself will show you if I speak at random.
-- That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola.
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