obtain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 获得， 得到，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：
-- The passengers and guards of the last and only remaining carriage at once tried to obtain help.
-- But in spite of rewards offered to the natives, he could not obtain a single specimen.
-- The slaves and the lower class can not obtain this decoration.
-- "You wish to obtain from me certain facts which may be useful to you.
-- I wish to obtain from you certain advantages which would be valuable to me.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then had it returned and obtained anoth-er a most instructive incident, since it proved conclusively to my mind that we were dealing with a real hound, as no other supposition could explain this anxiety to obtain an old boot and this indifference to a new one.
-- He might claim the property from South America, establish his identity be-fore the British authorities there and so obtain the fortune without ever coming to England at all; or he might adopt an elaborate disguise during the short time that he need be in London; or, again, he might furnish an accomplice with the proofs and papers, putting him in as heir, and retaining a claim upon some proportion of his income.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had said that he intended to stop at no means to obtain his free-dom; even if Nastasia were to promise to leave him entirely alone in future, he would not (he said) believe and trust her; words were not enough for him; he must have solid guaran-tees of some sort.
-- Mrs. Epanchin was surprised at the effect which the news from Moscow had upon the girls, and they were no less sur-prised that after solemnly remarking that her most striking characteristic was 'being mistaken in people' she should have troubled to obtain for the prince the favour and protec-tion of so powerful an old lady as the Princess Bielokonski.
-- Oh no, I should find strength enough, and if I wished it I could obtain consola-tion from the thought of the injury that is done me.
-- He was ready, in the same way, to do a base action in order to obtain his wished-for object; and yet, when the moment came to do it, he found that he was too honest for any great baseness.
-- At all events, she had been unable to obtain any definite news from the Ep- anchin girls the most she could get out of them being hints and surmises, and so on.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it.
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：
-- Near its southern termina-tion, it received the contributions of another lake, whose waters were so limpid as to have been exclusively selected by the Jesuit missionaries to perform the typical purifica-tion of baptism, and to obtain for it the title of lake 'du Saint Sacrement.'
-- The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the dis-tant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; and, as his companions drew their reins at the same instant, the whole party came to a halt, in order to obtain an expla-nation of the unlooked-for interruption.
-- Thus, it was deemed more important to obtain the scalp than to kill the man.
-- These are called 'licks' or 'salt licks,' in the language of the country, from the circumstance that the quadruped is often obliged to lick the earth, in order to obtain the saline particles.
-- They were fol-lowed at a little distance by the scout, with a view to profit early by their report, and to obtain some faint knowledge for himself of the more immediate localities.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gideon Spilett was one of that race of indomitable English or American chroniclers, like Stanley and others, who stop at nothing to obtain exact information, and transmit it to their journal in the shortest possible time.
-- Anxiety hastened his steps, for he longed to obtain news of his friend, and he soon disappeared round an angle of the cliff.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could only obtain a promise of their calling at the Park within a day or two, and then left them in amazement at their indifference, to walk home and boast anew of their attractions to the Miss Steeles, as he had been already boasting of the Miss Steeles to them.
-- Restless and dissatisfied every where, her sister could never obtain her opinion of any article of purchase, however it might equally concern them both: she received no pleasure from anything; was only impatient to be at home again, and could with difficulty govern her vexation at the tediousness of Mrs. Palmer, whose eye was caught by every thing pretty, expensive, or new; who was wild to buy all, could determine on none, and dawdled away her time in rapture and indecision.
-- I mean to offer some kind of explanation, some kind of apology, for the past; to open my whole heart to you, and by convincing you, that though I have been always a blockhead, I have not been always a rascal, to obtain something like forgiveness from Ma from your sister."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At Rector's he could always obtain this satisfaction, for there one could encounter politicians, brokers, actors, some rich young "rounders" of the town, all eating and drinking amid a buzz of popular commonplace conversation.
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