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：
-- He was smitten with quite a peculiar interest for this young girl, and managed to conceal his sentiments so well that everyone on board saw it except himself and Mary Grant.
-- Others would have excited the interest of a SAVANT to the highest degree, for though Arago, in his curious statistics, only cites two examples of forked lightning, it was visible here hundreds of times.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes.
-- Holmes was silent, but his little darting glances showed me the interest which he took in our curious companion.
-- 'You interest me exceedingly.
-- I fear lest I should be swayed too much by my own ob-vious interest in the matter, and that is why I bring the case before you and ask for your advice.'
-- 'Now,' said Sir Henry Baskerville, 'perhaps you will tell me, Mr. Holmes, what in thunder is the meaning of that, and who it is that takes so much interest in my affairs?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared that the general had known Pavlicheff; but why the latter had taken an interest in the prince, that young gentleman could not explain; probably by virtue of the old friendship with his father, he thought.
-- Taking so much interest in you as you may perceive I do, I am not without my object, and you shall know it in good time.
-- MWhat must her feelings have been when she heard that Prince Muishkin, the last of his and her line, had arrived in beggar's guise, a wretched idiot, a recipient of charity all of which details the general gave out for greater effect!He was anxious to steal her interest at the first swoop, so as to distract her thoughts from other matters nearer home.
-- I think you should be kind to him; it is a good deed, you know however, just as you like, of course but he is a sort of relation, remember, and I thought it might interest you to see the young fellow, seeing that this is so.'
-- I wish to know all about you, you interest me very much!'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him I'd heard he took an interest in scientific things.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And even as I lay there I saw, with no more interest than if it had been a picture, a sail come up towards me over the sky-line.
-- He was unmarried, and had indeed nothing but his own interest to consider.
-- I had half a mind to drown myself then; but an odd wish to see the whole adventure out, a queer, impersonal, spectacular interest in myself, restrained me.
-- I take no interest in them.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mowgli picked up some creepers and began to work them in and out, and the mon-keys tried to imitate; but in a very few minutes they lost interest and began to pull their friends' tails or jump up and down on all fours, coughing.
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：
-- demanded the Indian, who expected his reply with that sort of interest that a man feels in the confirmation of testimony, at which he marvels even while he respects it; 'the fathers of Chingachgook have not lied!'
-- exclaimed the two companions of the scout, who had continued until this part of the dialogue, seated im-movable, and apparently indifferent to what passed, but who now sprang to their feet with an activity and interest that had evidently got the better of their reserve by sur-prise.
-- Yielding to his powerful interest in the subject, and impatient of a delay that seemed fraught with so much additional danger, Heyward drew still nigher to the dusky group, with an intention of making his offers of compensa-tion more definite, when the white man, motioning with his hand, as if he conceded the disputed point, turned away, saying in a sort of soliloquy, and in the English tongue: 'Uncas is right!it would not be the act of men to leave such harmless things to their fate, even though it breaks up the harboring place forever.
-- The scout and his companions listened to this simple ex-planation with the interest of men who imbibe new ideas, at the same time that they get rid of old ones, which had proved disagreeable inmates.
-- He turned and beheld the speaker, whose color had changed to a deadly paleness, and whose lips quivered, gazing after him, with an expression of interest which immediately recalled him to her side.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
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