possession是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 所有, 拥有, 财产，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had such a noticeable air of being in somebody else's hands, that I wondered who really was in possession of the house and let them live there, until I found this unknown power to be the servants.
-- I presented him with a half-share in my boat, which was the occasion of his often coming down to Hammersmith; and my possession of a half-share in his chambers often took me up to London.
-- But, though she had taken such strong possession of me, though my fancy and my hope were so set upon her, though her influence on my boyish life and character had been all-powerful, I did not, even that romantic morning, invest her with any attributes save those she possessed.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This evil thought took possession of her more and more, and made her behave very unkindly to the boy.
-- When it was ready and the soldier had taken possession of it, he summoned the little black mani-kin and said: 'I have served the king faithfully, but he has dismissed me, and left me to hunger, and now I want to take my revenge.'
-- Although their intention was to pre-serve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with schol-arly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reason of this assertion was, that he had now in his possession a certain wonderful Yahoo (meaning myself) which most of them had heard of, and many of them had seen.
-- For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more, by force, for a sample; return home, and get their pardon.
-- But, as to the formality of taking possession in my sover-eign's name, it never came once into my thoughts; and if it had, yet, as my affairs then stood, I should perhaps, in point of prudence and self-preservation, have put it off to a better opportunity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby had taken possession of a house and grounds, about fifteen miles from the town, and accessible within a mile or two, by a railway striding on many arches over a wild country, undermined by deserted coal-shafts, and spotted at night by fires and black shapes of stationary engines at pits' mouths.
-- She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there.
-- A curious passive inattention had such possession of her, that the presence of her little sister in the room did not attract her notice for some time.
-- For, so he took possession of him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What horror and stupefaction took possession of my soul.
-- "Hans," he continued, "you will take charge of the tools and some of the provisions; you, Harry, must take possession of another third of the provisions and of the arms.
-- My uncle had charge of one of the Ruhmkorff coils, I had possession of the other.
-- In the midst of all these horrible sources of anguish and despair, a new horror took possession of my soul.
-- Madness must have taken possession of me.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was coming bit by bit into possession of all that the gentry knew, all that made them upper class: apart from the money.
-- And she suffered going into her own bedroom, re-enter-ing into possession as if nothing had happened.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of them had already taken possession of the two children, and were hospitably carrying them off; others were offering loans of little comforts from their own scanty store; others were sympathising with the greatest volubility.
-- The doctor was scarcely the kind of apparition to inspire a patient with a sense of absolute completeness, but as he presently delivered the opinion, 'We are as right as we can be, Mrs Bangham, and we shall come out of this like a house afire;' and as he and Mrs Bangham took possession of the poor helpless pair, as everybody else and anybody else had always done, the means at hand were as good on the whole as better would have been.
-- When all the other thoughts had faded out, this one held possession of him.
-- The company might have had other engagements, or they might have felt their inferiority, but in any case they dispersed by degrees, and not being replaced by other company, left their new patron in possession of the Break of Day.
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