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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She asked it so anxiously, that if he had been in possession of any kind of tenement, he would have had it plastered a foot deep rather than answer No.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had cherished her anger till it grew strong and took possession of her, as evil thoughts and feelings al-ways do unless cast out at once.
-- I am content to see Meg begin humbly, for if I am not mistaken, she will be rich in the possession of a good man's heart, and that is better than a fortune.'
-- I love you to teach, and this is easier than German,' broke in John, getting possession of the other hand, so that she had no way of hiding her face as he bent to look into it.
-- Annie Moffat's foolish les-sons in coquetry came into her mind, and the love of power, which sleeps in the bosoms of the best of little women, woke up all of a sudden and took possession of her.
-- Before she could make up her mind, she was taken possession of by Mr. Brooke, who said all in one breath, 'I couldn't help hearing, Meg.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linn脙娄us's express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan.
-- True, among the more upright and honorable whalemen allowances are always made for peculiar cases, where it would be an outrageous moral injustice for one party to claim possession of a whale previously chased or killed by another party.
-- case, wherein a gentleman, after in vain trying to bridle his wife's viciousness, had at last abandoned her upon the seas of life; but in the course of years, repenting of that step, he instituted an action to recover possession of her.
-- Is it not a saying in every one's mouth, Possession is half of the law: that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession?
-- But often possession is the whole of the law.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning, the public were once informed that Oliver Twist was again To Let, and that five pounds would be paid to anybody who would take possession of him.
-- 'I consider, sir, that you have obtained possession of that book, under very suspicious and disreputable circumstances; and you may think yourself very fortunate that the owner of the property declines to prosecute.
-- Flight!He could scarcely stand: and if he were in full possession of all the best powers of his slight and youthful frame, whither could he fly?
-- 'The more I think of it,' said the doctor, 'the more I see that it will occasion endless trouble and difficulty if we put these men in possession of the boy's real story.
-- Mr. Bumble immediately darted out of the room, without bestowing another thought on his unfinished sentence: leaving the late Mrs. Corney in full possession of the field.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.'
-- In making me the offer, you must have satisfied the delicacy of your feelings with regard to my family, and may take possession of Long-bourn estate whenever it falls, without any self-reproach.
-- Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more in-terest than the matter had ever excited before, how many years longer Mr. Bennet was likely to live; and Sir William gave it as his decided opinion, that whenever Mr. Collins should be in possession of the Longbourn estate, it would be highly expedient that both he and his wife should make their appearance at St. James's.
-- His countenance, voice, and manner had estab-lished him at once in the possession of every virtue.
-- She was no sooner in possession of it than, hurrying into the little copse, where she was least likely to be interrupted, she sat down on one of the benches and prepared to be happy; for the length of the letter convinced her that it did not contain a denial.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had nothing to covet, for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying; I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of: there were no rivals; I had no competitor, none to dis-pute sovereignty or command with me: I might have raised ship-loadings of corn, but I had no use for it; so I let as little grow as I thought enough for my occasion.
-- It now occurred to me that the time of our deliverance was come, and that it would be a most easy thing to bring these fellows in to be hearty in getting possession of the ship; so I retired in the dark from them, that they might not see what kind of a governor they had, and called the captain to me; when I called, at a good distance, one of the men was ordered to speak again, and say to the captain, 'Captain, the commander calls for you;' and presently the captain replied, 'Tell his excellency I am just coming.'
-- He told me he could not tell exactly to what degree the planta-tion was improved; but this he knew, that my partner was grown exceeding rich upon the enjoying his part of it; and that, to the best of his remembrance, he had heard that the king's third of my part, which was, it seems, granted away to some other monastery or religious house, amounted to above two hundred moidores a year: that as to my being restored to a quiet possession of it, there was no question to be made of that, my partner being alive to witness my title, and my name being also enrolled in the register of the country; also he told me that the survivors of my two trust-ees were very fair, honest people, and very wealthy; and he believed I would not only have their assistance for putting me in possession, but would find a very considerable sum of money in their hands for my account, being the produce of the farm while their fathers held the trust, and before it was given up, as above; which, as he remembered, was for about twelve years.
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