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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why do you take so much interest in people of that kind?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.
-- This manuscript will doubtless afford you the greatest pleasure; but to me, who know him and who hear it from his own lips with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day!Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.
-- During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father 26 Frankensteinhad gradually relinquished all his public functions; and im-mediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.
-- The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the an-nihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded.
-- In the Sorrows of Wert-er, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and as-tonishment.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having maneuvered them away from the boring subject of war, she went back with interest to their immediatesituation.
-- That was the first time the twins' interest had ever diverged, and Brent was resentful of his brother'sattentions to a girl who seemed to him not at all remarkable.
-- And he stood alone in his interest in books and music andhis fondness for writing poetry.
-- The other boys were puzzled and annoyed by herobvious interest in him, for they knew Charles was too shy to hitch two consecutive words together, and politeness wasbeing severely strained to conceal their growing rage.
-- What did Melanie say to him that brought that look of interest tohis eyes?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The interest of the impending pursuit not only absorbed the general attention, but even made my sister liberal.
-- There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.
-- As I declined the proposal on the plea of an appointment, he was so good as to take me into a yard and show me where the gallows was kept, and also where people were publicly whipped, and then he showed me the Debtors' Door, out of which culprits came to be hanged; heightening the interest of that dreadful portal by giving me to understand that "four on 'em" would come out at that door the day after to-morrow at eight in the morning, to be killed in a row.
-- No one but themselves and Mrs. Coiler the toady neighbor showed any interest in this part of the conversation, and it appeared to me that it was painful to Herbert; but it promised to last a long time, when the page came in with the announcement of a domestic affliction.
-- I told him I would do so, with all the interest and curiosity that his preparation awakened.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These false infor-mations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse; and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest de-cline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favourite.
-- His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the ques-tions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: 'My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
-- To keep senators in the interest of the crown, it was pro-posed that the members should raffle for employment; every man first taking an oath, and giving security, that he would vote for the court, whether he won or not; after which, the losers had, in their turn, the liberty of raffling upon the next vacancy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There certainly is no reason in looking with interest at a parcel of vagabonds,' returned Bounderby.
-- 'When I was a vagabond myself, nobody looked with any interest at me; I know that.'
-- If I have acquired an interest in hearing of your instructive experiences, and can scarcely hear enough of them, I claim no merit for that, since I believe it is a general sentiment.'
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- Louisa asked these questions with a strong, wild, wandering interest peculiar to her; an interest gone astray like a banished creature, and hiding in solitary places.
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