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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter had behaved modestly, but with dignity, on this occasion of his first meeting with the Epanchins since the rupture.
-- But on one occasion he explained seriously to Ga-nia that he was no Jew, that he did nothing dishonest, that he could not help the market price of money, that, thanks to his accurate habits, he had already a good footing and was respected, and that his business was flourishing.
-- She laughs at the prince, they say, from morn to night in order to hide her real feelings; but you may be sure she finds occasion to say something or other to him on the sly, for he himself is in a state of radiant happiness.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They belonged to the tree-tops, and as beasts very seldom look up, there was no occasion for the monkeys and the Jungle-People to cross each other's path.
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：
-- 'Praised be God, I have never had occasion to meddle with murderous implements!'
-- To Hey-ward this was a moment of feverish and impatient suspense; though the scout saw fit to select it as a fit occasion to read a lecture to his more youthful associates on the art of using firearms with discretion.
-- Duncan took occasion to assure them he had done the best that circum-stances permitted, and, as he believed, quite enough for the security of their feelings; of danger there was none.
-- It was, in fact, neither the moment nor the occasion for an Indian to boast of his exploits; and it is probably that, had Heyward neglected to inquire, not another syllable would, just then, have been ut-tered on the subject.
-- Nor did the scout fail to throw in a pertinent inquiry, whenever a fitting occasion presented.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farmhouse, and the addition of a su-pernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats, or, peradventure, the parade of a silver teapot.
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：
-- But the season touched him with gentle feeling, and he hated the thought of Strickland spending Christmas Day by himself; he ascribed his own emotions to him, and could not bear that on an occasion given up to good-fellowship the lonely painter should be abandoned to his own melancholy.
-- He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but he hated the instincts that robbed him of his self-possession.
-- Tough Bill had no patience with an obstinacy which could only result in loss to himself, and on the last occasion he flung both Strickland and Captain Nichols out of his house without more ado.
-- Strickland was just the man to rise superior to circumstances, when they were such as to occasion despondency in most; but whether this was due to equanimity of soul or to contradictoriness it would be difficult to say.
-- Still, though Tiare was old and fat, on occasion we rolled back the Brussels carpet, brought in the maids and one or two friends of Tiare's, and danced, though now to the wheezy music of a gramaphone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He furthermore took occasion to apologize for any negligence that might be perceptible in his dress, on the ground that last night he had had 'the sun very strong in his eyes'; by which expression he was understood to convey to his hearers in the most delicate manner possible, the information that he had been extremely drunk.
-- As he renewed his entreaties on our being left alone, and adverted with many thanks to the former occasion of our being together, I willingly yielded to his persuasions, and sat down, pretending to examine some curious miniatures and a few old medals which he placed before me.
-- It needed no great pressing to induce me to stay, for if my curiosity has been excited on the occasion of my first visit, it certainly was not diminished now.
-- 'Luckily for you, you have no more occasion to do it than I had.'
-- Then, and not until then, Daniel Quilp himself, the cause and occasion of all this clamour, was observed to be in the room, looking on and listening with profound attention.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff recalled all the tortures this man had occasioned him; how on one occasion he thought that the husband had discovered all, and he was preparing to fight a duel with him, intending to use a blank cartridge, and the ensuing scene where she, in despair, ran to the pond, intending to drown herself, while he ran to search for her.
-- Kolosoff condemned the drama and took occasion to state his views on art.
-- Nekhludoff asked himself, and could not help acknowledging that the talk that it would occasion influenced his decision.
-- On this occasion there was no one in the office.
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