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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I tell you, you aggravating vagabond,' said the angry Sampson, 'that I'd stake my life upon his honesty.
-- He was left to be buried with a stake through his heart in the centre of four lonely roads.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One half, therefore, of the spear stuck fast like a charred stake in Antilochus's shield, while the other lay on the ground.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If the case is tried here, and not in the district, I will stake anything on their discharge.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to say to you is this; one glass of rum won't kill you, but if you take one you'll take another and another, and I stake my wig if you don't break off short, you'll die do you understand that? die, and go to your own place, like the man in the Bible.
-- When you came in here, I'll stake my wig, you meant more than this."
-- "I don't know about treasure," he said, "but I'll stake my wig there's fever here."
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：
-- The action, and the choked utterance of Cora, spoke more impressively than any words, and quickly drew the attention of her companions on that spot where her own was riveted with an intenseness that nothing but the impor-tance of the stake could create.
-- The tourist, the valetudinarian, or the amateur of the beauties of nature, who, in the train of his four-in-hand, now rolls through the scenes we have attempted to describe, in quest of information, health, or pleasure, or floats steadi-ly toward his object on those artificial waters which have sprung up under the administration of a statesman* who has dared to stake his political character on the hazardous issue, is not to suppose that his ancestors traversed those hills, or struggled with the same currents with equal facility.
-- It was, in truth, the father in quest of his children, attended by the youth who felt so deep a stake in their happiness, and those brave and trusty foresters, who had already proved their skill and fi- delity through the trying scenes related.
-- exclaimed the excited Heyward, forgetful that a double stake was involved in his life; 'you and your vengeance are alike despised.'
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