occasion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (发生特殊事件) 的时刻; 机会, 理由; 需要; vt. 引起, 导致，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：
-- But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.
-- 50 Sons and LoversStave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits waking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and Asitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened, at length, that he had occasion to change the instrument in his hand, for his shoemaker's knife.
-- His surname was Cruncher, and on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church of Hounsditch, he had received the added ap-pellation of Jerry.
-- Kicked on that occasion for cheating at dice?
-- 'On a certain Friday night in November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, did business occasion you to travel between London and Dover by the mail?'
-- 'Were you newly released on the occasion in question?'
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：
-- 'I think I have not given the least occasion for it.'
-- 'Yes!When one is as handsome as you,' said the collar, 'that is occasion enough.'
-- When a friendship is formed between men, they generally affirm it, when occasion offers, either in public or private, by drinking to each other and exclaiming, 'thy health,' at the same time striking their glasses together.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But on this occasion she entirely misinterpreted what he had said.
-- The episode of the elections served as a good occasion for a capital dinner.
-- And Stepan Arkadyevitch was not merely an honest man--unemphatically--in the common acceptation of the words, he was an honest man--emphatically--in that special sense which the word has in Moscow, when they talk of an "honest" politician, an "honest" writer, an "honest" newspaper, an "honest" institution, an "honest" tendency, meaning not simply that the man or the institution is not dishonest, but that they are capable on occasion of taking a line of their own in opposition to the authorities.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was the occasion of this excited assemblage?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the solitary and nervous occasion when Martin had worn evening clothes he had rented them from the Varsity Pantorium, but he must own them, now that he was going to introduce Leora to the world as his pride and flowering.
-- Mrs. Holabird was intense, as one present on an historical occasion and Joyce was ecstatic over the honor to her Man.
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 shall have the honour of visit-ing you and paying you my respects at your lodgings not later than to-morrow evening at eight o'clock precisely, and herewith I venture to present my earnest and, I may add, imperative request that Rodion Romanovitch may not be present at our interview as he offered me a gross and un-precedented affront on the occasion of my visit to him in his illness yesterday, and, moreover, since I desire from you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explana-tion upon a certain point, in regard to which I wish to learn your own interpretation.
-- I only used the whip twice in all our seven years (not counting a third occasion of a very ambiguous character).
-- 'I fancy in-deed that you are a man of very good breeding, or at least know how on occasion to behave like one.'
-- Pyotr Petrovitch had had occasion that morning to re-alise some five- per-cent bonds and now he sat down to the table and counted over bundles of notes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There is no longer any occasion uneasiness, ma'am.
-- Iheard that Mr. Creakle had a son, who had not been Tungay'sfriend, and who, assisting in the school, had once held someremonstrance with his father on an occasion when its disciplinewas very cruelly exercised, and was supposed, besides, to haveprotested against his father's usage of his mother.
-- It always gave me pain to observethat Steerforth treated him with systematic disparagement, andseldom lost an occasion of wounding his feelings, or inducingothers to do so.
-- While we were at table, I thought it a favourable occasion to tellPeggotty about Mr. Barkis, who, before I had finished what I hadto tell her, began to laugh, and throw her apron over her face.
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