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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle struck in upon that; as one who knew all about relationships, having professional occasion to bear in mind what female relations a man might not marry; and expounded the ties between me and Joe.
-- It is not much to the purpose whether a gate in that garden wall which I had scrambled up to peep over on the last occasion was, on that last occasion, open or shut.
-- However, I temporized with myself, of course--for, was I not wavering between right and wrong, when the thing is always done?--and resolved to make a full disclosure if I should see any such new occasion as a new chance of helping in the discovery of the assailant.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this adventure was at an end, I came back out of my house, having occasion for fresh air.
-- below par; that I had cost his 74 Gulliver's Travelsmajesty above a million and a half of sprugs' (their great-est gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) 'and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.'
-- I told him, 'that since fortune, whether good or evil, had thrown a vessel in my way, I was resolved to venture myself on the ocean, rather than be an occasion of difference between two such mighty monarchs.'
-- But, when he goes abroad on solemn days, he is at-tended, for state, by a military guard of five hundred horse, which, indeed, I thought was the most splendid sight that could be ever beheld, till I saw part of his army in battalia, whereof I shall find another occasion to speak.
-- He desired to know, 'what I would have done upon such an occasion in my own country.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatsoever the public meeting held in Coketown, and whatsoever the subject of such meeting, some Coketowner was sure to seize the occasion of alluding to his eminently practical friend Gradgrind.
-- 'You have no occasion to go away; but don't interrupt us for a moment, Tom dear.'
-- He had been at his loom full half an hour, thinking about this old woman, when, having occasion to move round the loom for its adjustment, he glanced through a window which was in his corner, and saw her still looking up at the pile of building, lost in admiration.
-- Sparsit, ma'am,' said Mr. Bounderby, putting his hands in his pockets, and assuring himself with his right hand that the cork of the little bottle was ready for use, 'I have no occasion to say to you, that you are not only a lady born and bred, but a devilish sensible woman.'
-- Among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging to the Gradgrind school, there was one of a good family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humour which had told immensely with the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took occasion to consult the map, to see where Gardar was to be found.
-- I have never on any occasion failed to note with great care the angles and slopes.
-- I was on this occasion walking on in front.
-- My uncle, who on almost every occasion was a great talker, remained for a time completely dumfounded.
-- There can be no doubt that he thought himself at the Institution addressing his attentive pupils, for he put on his most doctorial style, waved his hand, and began: "Gentlemen, I have the honor on this auspicious occasion to present to you a man of the Quaternary period of our globe.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I've no doubt you've given him plenty of occasion for suspicion,' said Hilda.
-- He said he'd rather I kept my money, as I'd no occasion to ease my con-science.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes Little Dorrit was employed at her needle, sometimes not, sometimes appeared as a humble visitor: which must have been her character on the occasion of his arrival.
-- On this occasion Mr Barnacle was not engaged, as he had been before, with the noble prodigy at the head of the Department; but was absent.
-- As number one referred him to number two, and as number two referred him to number three, he had occasion to state it three times before they all referred him to number four, to whom he stated it again.
-- At nineteen, his hand had inscribed in chalk on that part of the wall which fronted her lodgings, on the occasion of her birthday, 'Welcome sweet nursling of the Fairies!'
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