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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Verne has done a vast and useful work in stimulating the interest not only of Frenchmen but of all civilised nations, with regard to the lesser known regions of our globe.
-- A considerable crowd visited her every day, and the DUNCAN was the one topic of interest and conversation, to the great vexation of the different captains in the port, among others of Captain Burton, in command of the SCOTIA, a magnificent steamer lying close beside her, and bound for Calcutta.
-- Madeira is an island too well known to be of much interest now to a geographer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dawkin's appearance did not say a vast deal in favour of the comforts which his patron's interest obtained for those whom he took under his protection; but, as he had a rather flightly and dissolute mode of conversing, and furthermore avowed that among his intimate friends he was better known by the sobriquet of 'The Artful Dodger,' Oliver concluded that, being of a dissipated and careless turn, the moral precepts of his benefactor had hitherto been thrown away upon him.
-- It is very possible that he fancied himself there, indeed; for it was plain, from his abstraction, that he saw not the book-stall, nor the street, nor the boys, nor, in short, anything but the book itself: which he was reading straight through: turning over the leaf when he got to the bottom of a page, beginning at the top line of the next one, and going regularly on, with the greatest interest and eagerness.
-- After tea she began to teach Oliver cribbage: which he learnt as quickly as she could teach: and at which game they played, with great interest and gravity, until it was time for the invalid to have some warm wine and water, with a slice of dry toast, and then to go cosily to bed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley's attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was her-self becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend.
-- Elizabeth found the interest of the subject increase, and listened with all her heart; but the delicacy of it prevented further inquiry.
-- The possibility of his having endured such unkindness, was enough to interest all her tender feelings; and nothing re-mained therefore to be done, but to think well of them both, to defend the conduct of each, and throw into the account of accident or mistake whatever could not be otherwise ex-plained.
-- As Elizabeth had no longer any interest of her own to pursue, she turned her attention almost entirely on her sis-ter and Mr. Bingley; and the train of agreeable reflections which her observations gave birth to, made her perhaps al-most as happy as Jane.
-- On finding Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth, and one of the younger girls together, soon after breakfast, he addressed the mother in these words: 'May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth, when I solicit for the honour of a pri- vate audience with her in the course of this morning?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the next place, my interest in the Brazils seemed to sum-mon me thither; but now I could not tell how to think of going thither till I had settled my affairs, and left my effects in some safe hands behind me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His son was sent for as soon as his danger was known, and to him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the interest of his mother-in-law and sisters.
-- If they marry, they will be sure of doing well, and if they do not, they may all live very comfortably together on the interest of ten thousand pounds."
-- Do but consider, my dear Mr. Dashwood, how excessively comfortable your mother-in-law and her daughters may live on the interest of seven thousand pounds, besides the thousand pounds belonging to each of the girls, which brings them in fifty pounds a year a-piece, and, of course, they will pay their mother for their board out of it.
-- His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into parliament, or to see him connected with some of the great men of the day.
-- But as they drew towards the end of it, their interest in the appearance of a country which they were to inhabit overcame their dejection, and a view of Barton Valley as they entered it gave them cheerfulness.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been fidgetting, and with natural intuition she felt a certain interest growing in that quarter.
-- She realised that she was of interest to him from the one standpoint which a woman both delights in and fears.
-- Her companion, affected by her wonder, so contagious are all things, felt anew some interest in the city and pointed out its marvels.
-- She walked bravely forward, led by an honest desire to find employment and delayed at every step by the interest of the unfolding scene, and a sense of helplessness amid so much evidence of power and force which she did not understand.
-- Each separate counter was a show place of dazzling interest and attraction.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did wish Tom Sawyer was there; I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches.
-- I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, be-cause rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.
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