possess是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 占有， 拥有，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：
-- If it is yes, or, in other words, if you possess what you call honour and conscience, and we more justly call common-sense, then accede to our demand, and the matter is at an end.
-- Besides Princess Bielo-konski and the old dignitary (who was really a great man) and his wife, there was an old military general a count or baron with a German name, a man reputed to possess great knowledge and administrative ability.
-- 'Don't dare to believe in God, don't dare to possess any individuality, any property!Fraternite ou la Mort; two million heads.
-- He was a man who really did possess a kind heart, although his interest in the prince, in the earlier part of the evening, was due, among other rea-sons, to the latter's connection with Nastasia Philipovna, according to popular report.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't imagine what possess people.
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：
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sound does not possess the property of traveling with such extreme rapidity.
-- Our excellent friend Hans has rubbed your wounds and bruises with I know not what ointment, of which the Icelanders alone possess the secret.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As there truly was no reason why he should have the least interest in it, Arthur Clennam went on to the present purport of his visit; namely, to make Plornish the instrument of effecting Tip's release, with as little detriment as possible to the self-reliance and self-helpfulness of the young man, supposing him to possess any remnant of those qualities: without doubt a very wide stretch of supposition.
-- The speaker having folded his arms, and set in comfortably to address his depreciation of them Mails to any of the bystanders who would listen, several voices, out of pure sympathy with the sufferer, confirmed him; one voice saying to Clennam, 'They're a public nuisance, them Mails, sir;' another, 'I see one on 'em pull up within half a inch of a boy, last night;' another, 'I see one on 'em go over a cat, sir and it might have been your own mother;' and all representing, by implication, that if he happened to possess any public influence, he could not use it better than against them Mails.
-- Now, that Mr Merdle was already at no loss to discover means of occupying even his capital, and of fully employing even his active and vigorous intellect, Bar well knew: but he would venture to suggest that the question arose in his mind, whether one who had deservedly gained so high a position and so European a reputation did not owe it we would not say to himself, but we would say to Society, to possess himself of such influences as these; and to exercise them we would not say for his own, or for his party's, but we would say for Society's benefit.
-- You are young; may you never outlive your feelings!If I was to outlive my own feelings, sir,' said Mr Rugg, who was a man of many words, and was considered to possess a remarkably good address; 'if I was to outlive my own feelings, I'd leave fifty pound in my will to the man who would put me out of existence.'
-- 'And in its place,' said Clennam, slowly and distinctly, 'are the means to possess and enjoy the utmost that they have so long shut out.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had never read Sartor Resartus, but she had a womanly in-stinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer of whose works I possess the only copy extant "it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."
-- If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object.
-- But supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that as ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them, capable, at will, of distension or contraction; and as the Sperm Whale, as far as I know, has no such provision in him; considering, too, the otherwise inexplicable manner in which he now depresses his head altogether beneath the surface, and anon swims with it high elevated out of the water; considering the unobstructed elasticity of its envelope; considering the unique interior of his head; it has hypothetically occurred to me, I say, that those mystical lung-celled honeycombs there may possibly have some hitherto unknown and unsuspected connexion with the outer air, so as to be susceptible to atmospheric distension and contraction.
-- On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet another elephant, that when wounded in the fight, curved round his trunk and extracted the dart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I purpose to show in the sequel whether the white waistcoated gentleman was right or not, I should perhaps mar the interest of this narrative (supposing it to possess any at all), if I ventured to hint just yet, whether the life of Oliver Twist had this violent termination or no.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expres-sions, or the word will be but half-deserved.'
-- 'You judge very properly,' said Mr. Bennet, 'and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.
-- 'I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood, being an older man, could scarcely be said to retain the fire of youth, though he did possess a passion warm and unreasoning.
-- She did not realise what she was doing by allowing these feelings to possess her.
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