stake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 木桩; 赌注; 利害关系，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dear me!It is a stake for which a man might well play a desperate game.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There must have been something stronger than the stake or the fire, or even than the habits of twenty years!There must have been an idea more powerful than all the calami-ties and sorrows of this world, famine or torture, leprosy or plague an idea which entered into the heart, directed and enlarged the springs of life, and made even that hell sup-portable to humanity!Show me a force, a power like that, in this our century of vices and railways!I might say, perhaps, in our century of steamboats and railways, but I repeat in our century of vices and railways, because I am drunk but truthful!Show me a single idea which unites men nowa-days with half the strength that it had in those centuries, and dare to maintain that the 'springs of life' have not been polluted and weakened beneath this 'star,' beneath this net-work in which men are entangled!Don't talk to me about your prosperity, your riches, the rarity of famine, the rapid-ity of the means of transport!There is more of riches, but less of force.
-- He was impaled on a stake in the time of Peter.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here again: Mr. Lorry's inquiries into Miss Pross's per-sonal history had established the fact that her brother Solomon was a heartless scoundrel who had stripped her of everything she possessed, as a stake to speculate with, and had abandoned her in her poverty for evermore, with no touch of compunction.
-- I say nothing more of my stake in this; this is what I ask.
-- When great masses of stone and timber fell, the face with 329the two dints in the nose became obscured: anon struggled out of the smoke again, as if it were the face of the cruel Mar-quis, burning at the stake and contending with the fire.
-- Now, the stake I have resolved to play for, in case of the worst, is a friend in the Conciergerie.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the last of the hay had been divided, Levin, intrusting the superintendence of the rest to the counting-house clerk, sat down on a haycock marked off by a stake of willow, and looked admiringly at the meadow swarming with peasants.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So great had been the expense of his tour that, even had he won, it would not have enriched him; and it is probable that he had not sought to enrich himself, being a man who rather laid wagers for honour's sake than for the stake proposed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here this man will go to the stake for me, and I find him delighted at having it cleared up why I spoke of rings in my delirium!What a hold the idea must have on all of them!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I say, Rosa, not a word!If he can stake his all upon the lightestobject, I can stake my all upon a greater purpose.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the removal of yet another stake from the palisade of cold manners which had kept him off.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The uncultivated fields, studded with tiny pines and underbrush, that stretched their rolling red-clay surface away into the distance on four sides belonged to Gerald O'Hara were all his because he had anunbefuddled Irish head and the courage to stake everything on a hand of cards.
-- The destination of the proposed railroad,Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, ayear later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta, born Terminus,had begun.
-- In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven inthe ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit saw him detain her with his encircling arm, and heard him then and there, within her (Mrs. Sparsit's) greedy hearing, tell her how he loved her, and how she was the stake for which he ardently desired to play away all that he had in life.
-- The hotel where he was known to live when condemned to that region of blackness, was the stake to which he was tied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The constancy of his attendance never touched Fanny: though he was so inseparable from Edward, that, when that gentleman wished for a change of society, he was under the irksome necessity of gliding out like a conspirator in disguised boats and by secret doors and back ways; though he was so solicitous to know how Mr Dorrit was, that he called every other day to inquire, as if Mr Dorrit were the prey of an intermittent fever; though he was so constantly being paddled up and down before the principal windows, that he might have been supposed to have made a wager for a large stake to be paddled a thousand miles in a thousand hours; though whenever the gondola of his mistress left the gate, the gondola of Mr Sparkler shot out from some watery ambush and gave chase, as if she were a fair smuggler and he a custom-house officer.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo opened her lips to say something rude, but checked herself in time, colored up to her forehead and stood a min-ute, hammering down a wicket with all her might, while Fred hit the stake and declared himself out with much ex-ultation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before you stake your all on this chance; before you suffer yourself to be carried to the highest point of hope; reflect for a few moments, my dear child, on Rose's history, and consider what effect the knowledge of her doubtful birth may have on her decision: devoted as she is to us, with all the intensity of her noble mind, and with that perfect sacrifice of self which, in all matters, great or trifling, has always been her characteristic.'
-- 'Rose, my own dear Rose!For years--for years--I have loved you; hoping to win my way to fame, and then come proudly home and tell you it had been pursued only for you to share; thinking, in my daydreams, how I would remind you, in that happy moment, of the many silent tokens I had given of a boy's attachment, and claim your hand, as in redemption of some old mute contract that had been sealed between us!That time has not arrived; but here, with not fame won, and no young vision realised, I offer you the heart so long your own, and stake my all upon the words with which you greet the offer.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, as my arable land was but small, suited to my crop, I got it totally well fenced in about three weeks' time; and shooting some of the creatures in the daytime, I set my dog to guard it in the night, tying him up to a stake at the gate, where he would stand and bark all night long; so in a little time the enemies forsook the place, and the corn grew very strong and well, and began to ripen apace.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Visions of a big stake floated before him.
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