interest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (in) 兴趣， 重要性； 利益v. (in) 使发生兴趣，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sight of these poor revellers appeared to interest the Spirit very much, for he stood with Scrooge beside him in a baker's doorway, and taking off the covers as their bearers passed, sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch.
-- 'Spirit,' said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, 'tell me if Tiny Tim will live.'
-- There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge, for, wholly for-getting the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Concord bed-chamber being always assigned to a passenger by the mail, and passengers by the mail being al-ways heavily wrapped up from head to foot, the room had the odd interest for the establishment of the Royal George, that although but one kind of man was seen to go into it, all kinds and varieties of men came out of it.
-- I have done my best to prepare myself, and I naturally have a strong and ea-ger interest to know what they are.'
-- Some minutes of silent work had passed: and the haggard eyes had looked up again: not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception, beforehand, that the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood, was not yet empty.
-- Having thus given his parent God speed, young Jerry seated himself on the stool, entered on his reversionary interest in the straw his father had been chewing, and cogi-tated.
-- The sort of interest with which this man was stared and breathed at, was not a sort that elevated humanity.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could all talk well enough when they were out in the street; but as soon as they came inside the palace gates, and saw the guard richly dressed in silver, and the lackeys in gold on the staircase, and the large illu-minated saloons, then they were abashed; and when they stood before the throne on which the Princess was sitting, all they could do was to repeat the last word they had ut-tered, and to hear it again did not interest her very much.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them--or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.
-- How often he had seen him come up to Moscow from the country where he was doing something, but what precisely Stepan Arkadyevitch could never quite make out, and indeed he took no interest in the matter.
-- Levin knew that his elder brother took little interest in farming, and only put the question in deference to him, and so he only told him about the sale of his wheat and money matters.
-- 'How can it interest you so much?'
-- The only point of interest was that it was settled they should go abroad.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rather enjoyed the voyage, for he was well fed and well lodged, took a great interest in the scenes through which they were passing, and consoled himself with the delusion that his master's whim would end at Bombay.
-- Left an orphan, she was married against her will to the old rajah of Bundelcund; and, knowing the fate that awaited her, she escaped, was retaken, and devoted by the rajah's relatives, who had an interest in her death, to the sacrifice from which it seemed she could not escape.
-- Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he would have espied the detective ensconced in a corner of the court-room, watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood; for the warrant had failed to reach him at Calcutta, as it had done at Bombay and Suez.
-- Either the servant was the accomplice of his master, and in this case the master knew of his operations, and he should fail; or else the servant knew nothing about the robbery, and then his interest would be to abandon the robber.
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES A TOO GREAT INTEREST IN HIS MASTER,AND WHAT COMES OF ITHong Kong is an island which came into the possession of the English by the Treaty of Nankin, after the war of 1842; and the colonising genius of the English has created upon it an important city and an excellent port.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clif's opposition stirred him to consider Madeline not merely with a sly and avaricious interest but with a dramatic conviction that he longed to marry her.
-- "My DEAR young woman, it may interest you to know--" "Oh!
-- "I am Dr. Arrowsmith," he snorted, "and I've been informed that even probationers learn that the first duty of a nurse is to stand when addressing doctors!I wish to find Ward D, to take a strain of--IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW!--a very dangerous microbe, and if you will kindly direct me--" "Oh, gee, I've been getting fresh again.
-- There is a certain interest in other people's affairs, and the eyes of citizens of whose existence Martin did not know had followed him from his arrival.
-- No sense taking a risk, with the blame farmers demanding all the money they can get for their wheat and cream, and then deliberately going to work and not paying the interest on their loans.
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