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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine.
-- Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams' of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time.
-- "If such an animal is in existence, if it inhabits the depths of the ocean, if it frequents the strata lying miles below the surface of the water, it must necessarily possess an organisation the strength of which would defy all comparison."
-- I omit the theories without number by which it was sought to explain that of which you alone possess the secret.
-- "Nevertheless, Captain, you possess an extreme rapidity of movement, which does not agree well with the power of electricity.
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：
-- It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.
-- His appearance was wild and uncouth; there was aloofness in his eyes and sensuality in his mouth; he was big and strong; he gave the impression of untamed passion; and perhaps she felt in him, too, that sinister element which had made me think of those wild beings of the world's early history when matter, retaining its early connection with the earth, seemed to possess yet a spirit of its own.
-- I longed to possess a Sisley and a Degas, and I worshipped Manet.
-- They seemed to possess something of the clay of which they were created, and at the same time something divine.
-- They seemed to possess a sombre passion of their own.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The curious circumstances which led to the escape of the prisoners were as follows: That same year, in the month of February, 1865, in one of the coups de main by which General Grant attempted, though in vain, to possess himself of Richmond, several of his officers fell into the power of the enemy and were detained in the town.
-- They did not possess even the tools necessary for making tools, and they were not even in the condition of nature, who, "having time, husbands her strength."
-- Herbert gathered several shoots of the basil, rosemary, balm, betony, etc., which possess different medicinal properties, some pectoral, astringent, febrifuge, others anti-spasmodic, or anti-rheumatic.
-- In spite of it, however, the settlers continued their work, and as they were anxious to possess a poultry-yard they forthwith commenced it.
-- "Now," said Gideon Spilett, "since we possess an atlas as well as a sextant, let us see, my dear Cyrus, the exact position which Lincoln Island occupies in the Pacific."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only did he not desire to possess her physically, but the very thought of such relation horrified him.
-- Hence the world appeared to her as an aggregation of people who watched her from all sides and by all possible means--deceit, violence, gold or craftiness--strewn to possess her.
-- The only people who did not possess this trait were the consumptive young man, the beautiful girl with sheep eyes, and the dark-featured man who was talking to the beardless man who resembled a Skopetz.
-- These stories, of which he seemed to possess an inexhaustible source, afforded the lawyer great pleasure, as showing most conclusively that the means employed by him as a lawyer to make money were perfectly innocent in comparison with those used by the more noted public men of St. Petersburg.
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：
-- 'You appear to possess the privilege of a casting vote,' re-turned Heyward; 'we are three, while you have consulted no one but yourself.'
-- 'Even so; sucking babes are not more dependent on those who guide them than we who are of larger growth, and who may now be said to possess the stature without the knowl-edge of men.
-- The rich ornaments of his military attire had indeed been repeatedly handled by different in- dividuals of the tribes with eyes expressing a savage longing to possess the baubles; but before the customary violence could be resorted to, a mandate in the authoritative voice of the large warrior, already mentioned, stayed the uplifted hand, and convinced Heyward that they were to be reserved for some object of particular moment.
-- The instant he caught a glimpse of the white plume that waved in the hat of Montcalm, his eye lighted, and age no longer appeared to possess any influence over his vast and still muscular person.
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