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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On another occasion, whenwe three were together, this same dear baby- it was truly dear tome, for our mother's sake- was the innocent occasion of MissMurdstone's going into a passion.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIEmma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fan-cy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admi-ration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.
-- Chapter VIIThe very day of Mr. Elton's going to London produced a fresh occasion for Emma's services towards her friend.
-- Still, however, though every thing had not been accom-plished by her ingenious device, she could not but flatter herself that it had been the occasion of much present en-joyment to both, and must be leading them forward to the great event.
-- 'Our amiable young man is a very weak young man, if this be the first occasion of his carrying through a resolu-tion to do right against the will of others.
-- There was no occasion to press the matter farther.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change from the customary spot and necessary occasion of such an act from the dressing hour in a bedroom to a time of travelling out of doors lent to the idle deed a novelty it did not intrinsically possess.
-- Yet, although if occasion demanded he could do or think a thing with as mercurial a dash as can the men of towns who are more to the manner born, his special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static, owing little or nothing to momentum as a rule.
-- Liddy, elevating her feelings to the occasion from a sense of grandeur, floated off behind Bathsheba with a milder dignity not entirely free from travesty, and the door was closed.
-- In the centre was a small oval enclosure; this was left blank, that the sender might insert tender words more appropriate to the special occasion than any generalities by a printer could possibly be.
-- She that day nearly formed the intention of begging his pardon on the very next occasion of their meeting.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he was careful of his wardrobe, only taking last year's clothes into daily wear, still upon occasion he could issue forth as a young man of fashion.
-- Sylvie saw not a trace of resemblance between this great lady and the girl in her simple morning dress who had entered her kitchen on the occasion of her first visit.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this occasion a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and gal-vanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me.
-- Do you remember on what occasion Justine Moritz entered our family?
-- The resourc-es of his mind on this occasion were truly astonishing; his conversation was full of imagination, and very often, in im-itation of the Persian and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion.
-- Upon this occasion my father said, with an expression of unbounded wonder, 'My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett, like the rest of the County, could never get used to the way smallMrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.
-- The fat cook, a yard negro elevated by necessity to the kitchen, never had the mealson time, and the chambermaid, formerly a field hand, let dust accumulate on the furniture and never seemed to haveclean linen on hand, so that the arrival of guests was always the occasion of much stirring and to-do.
-- I met you " "On the happy occasion of the announcement of your betrothal," he finished, bending over her hand.
-- On the occasion of our first eventful meeting I thought to myself that I had at last met a girl who was notonly beautiful but who had courage.
-- "I think we agreed on the occasion of our first meeting that you were no lady at all."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.
-- Wishing to embrace the present occasion of finding out whether in teaching Joe, I should have to begin quite at the beginning, I said, "Ah!But read the rest, Jo."
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