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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the weather is fine I think that I shall obtain the longitude of the island with an approximation of some degrees."
-- 'Also, since the night is clear, I will try, this very evening, to obtain our latitude by calculating the height of the Southern Cross, that is, from the southern pole above the horizon.
-- This evening by the height of the pole, the next day by the passing of the sun at the meridian, he would obtain the position of the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dwarf had twice encountered him when he was endeavouring to obtain intelligence of the fugitives.
-- Nell returned a satisfactory reply, and Mrs Jarley, after sticking a great many pins into various parts of her figure, and making several abortive attempts to obtain a full view of her own back, was at last satisfied with her appearance, and went forth majestically.
-- 'On that occasion, Kit,' said Mr Brass, 'on that occasion that I have just alluded to, I had a hard battle with Mr Quilp (for Mr Quilp is a very hard man) to obtain them the indulgence they had.
-- murmured the lawyer, standing on tiptoe, and endeavouring to obtain a glimpse of what was passing inside, which at that distance was impossible 'drinking, I suppose, making himself more fiery and furious, and heating his malice and mischievousness till they boil.
-- cried the dwarf, stretching his neck to obtain a better view of his visitor.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was ambitious, and was determined to make his career, and hence he endeavored to obtain a conviction in every case he prosecuted.
-- In spite of all the efforts of her husband, her father-in-law, and especially her mother-in-law, who had grown very fond of her, to obtain her discharge, she was sentenced to hard labor in Siberia.
-- The prosecutor gave me a pass for the prison, but I was told there that it was necessary to obtain the Governor's permission to visit the prison on other than visitors' days.
-- "No, I will go to the prison and obtain her signature," said Nekhludoff, rejoicing at the opportunity of seeing Katiousha before the appointed day.
-- First, to obtain Maslova's transfer to the hospital, and to help, if possible, the hundred and thirty unfortunates.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But while such details are easy enough to obtain when the whole world is contained in one's imagination, they are altogether inaccessible to a real traveller amid such realities as I found here.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Increase its size fivefold or tenfold, give it strength proportionate to its size, lengthen its destructive weapons, and you obtain the animal required.
-- "Very well!suppose this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.
-- Would he obtain air by chemical means, in getting by heat the oxygen contained in chlorate of potash, and in absorbing carbonic acid by caustic potash?
-- These two dimensions enable you to obtain by a simple calculation the surface and cubic contents of the Nautilus.
-- Could not master obtain permission from his friend Captain Nemo to put us on land, if only so as not to lose the habit of treading on the solid parts of our planet?"
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：
-- The initial idea had been, to obtain as much money from the earth as would make the owners comfortably rich, would allow the workmen sufficient wages and good conditions, and would increase the wealth of the country altogether.
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