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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will bring you the interest for another month; wait a little.'
-- 'A rouble and a half, and interest in advance, if you like!'
-- There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
-- Since she has attained years of maturity, she has read other books of romantic ten-dency and of late she had read with great interest a book she got through Mr. Lebeziatnikov, Lewes' Physiology do you know it? and even recounted extracts from it to us: and that's the whole of her education.
-- And he began describing how spiteful and uncertain she was, how if you were only a day late with your interest the pledge was lost; how she gave a quarter of the value of an ar-ticle and took five and even seven percent a month on it and so on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was sodivided between pleasure and regret- pleasure in the achievementof a long design, regret in the separation from many companions-that I was in danger of wearying the reader with personalconfidences and private emotions.
-- In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declaredby the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood whohad taken a lively interest in me several months before there wasany possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that Iwas destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I wasprivileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitablyattaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender,born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
-- A lane ofsmall boys beyond me, with the same interest in his eye, watch ittoo.
-- I am the head-boy, now!I look down on the line of boys below me,with a condescending interest in such of them as bring to my mindthe boy I was myself, when I first came there.
-- Mr. Larkins (a gruff old gentleman with a double chin, andone of his eyes immoveable in his head) is fraught with interest tome.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was brought from Mrs. God-dard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen, whom Emma knew very well by sight, and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty.
-- A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me; I might hope to be useful to their families in some way or other.
-- I have a very sincere interest in Emma.
-- The plan of a drain, the change of a fence, the felling of a tree, and the destination of every acre for wheat, turnips, or spring corn, was entered into with as much equality of interest by John, as his cooler manners rendered possible; and if his willing brother ever left him any thing to inquire about, his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness.
-- Emma saw Mrs. Weston's surprize, and felt that it must be great, at an address which, in words and manner, was assuming to himself the right of first interest in her; and as for herself, she was too much provoked and offended to have the power of directly saying any thing to the purpose.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba had probably left Weatherbury long before this time, but the place had enough interest attaching to it to lead Oak to choose Shottsford fair as his next field of inquiry, because it lay in the Weatherbury quarter.
-- However, the interest was general, and this Saturday's d脙漏but in the forum, whatever it may have been to Bathsheba as the buying and selling farmer, was unquestionably a triumph to her as the maiden.
-- But a manly resolve to recognize boldly that he had no longer a lover's interest in her, helped him occasionally to conceal a feeling.
-- Boldwood's deep attachment was a matter of great interest among all around him; but, after having been pointed out for so many years as the perfect exemplar of thriving bachelorship, his lapse was an anticlimax somewhat resembling that of St. John Long's death by consumption in the midst of his proofs that it was not a fatal disease.
-- Bathsheba had spoken of her interest in Boldwood with the greatest freedom to Liddy, but she had only communed with her own heart concerning Troy.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Less superficial observers than young men engulfed by the whirlpool of Parisian life, or old men, who took no interest in anything that did not directly concern them, would not have stopped short at the vaguely unsatisfactory impression that Vautrin made upon them.
-- Surely the beautiful Vicomtesse's personal interest would turn the scale for me, when the mere mention of her name produces such an effect.
-- de Beauseant could not very well shut her door against these visitors, she gave them such a cold reception, and showed so much interest in the study of the ceiling, that no one could fail to understand how much he bored her; and when it became known in Paris that Mme.
-- "Henceforward I shall have two protectresses; those two women are great friends, no doubt, and this newcomer will doubtless interest herself in her friend's cousin."
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