ease是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 减轻, 放松, 小心移置; 舒适，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：
-- We had anotherlong talk about my plans, when we were safely housed; and as Iknew she was anxious to get home, and between fire, food, andpickpockets, could never be considered at her ease for half an hourin London, I urged her not to be uncomfortable on my account, butto leave me to take care of myself.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Isabella, the relief of such tidings was very great, and they were scarcely less acceptable to Emma on her father's account, who was immediately set as much at ease on the subject as his nervous constitution allowed; but the alarm that had been raised could not be appeased so as to admit of any comfort for him while he continued at Randalls.
-- Perhaps they began to feel it might have been kinder and wiser to have resisted the temptation of any delay, and spared her from a taste of such enjoyments of ease and leisure as must now be relin-quished.
-- I do not know a more luxurious state, sir, than sitting at one's ease to be entertained a whole evening by two such young women; sometimes with music and sometimes with conversation.
-- She felt immediately that she should like him; and there was a well-bred ease of manner, and a readiness to talk, which convinced her that he came intending to be ac-quainted with her, and that acquainted they soon must be.
-- They were called on to share in the awkwardness of a rather long interval be-tween the courses, and obliged to be as formal and as orderly as the others; but when the table was again safely covered, 264 Emmawhen every corner dish was placed exactly right, and occu-pation and ease were generally restored, Emma said, 'The arrival of this pianoforte is decisive with me.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passing from the profoundest sleep to the most alert wakefulness with the same ease that had accompanied the reverse operation, he looked at his watch, found that the hour-hand had shifted again, put on his hat, took the lamb in his arms, and carried it into the darkness.
-- The men entered the field and endeavoured to ease the anguish of the dumb creatures by rubbing them.
-- It has been said that mere ease after torment is delight for a time; and the countenances of these poor creatures expressed it now.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are men who feel more at their ease when they stand up before another man who threatens their lives with sword or pistol than in the presence of a woman who, after two hours of lamentations and reproaches, falls into a dead swoon and requires salts.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.
-- 60 Frankenstein I continued walking in this manner for some time, en-deavouring by bodily exercise to ease the load that weighed upon my mind.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- But Stuart felt guilty and ill at ease with her.
-- Gerald's sharp blue eyes noticed how efficiently his neighbors' houses were run and with what ease the smooth-haired wives in rustling skirts managed their servants.
-- The barbecue was over and all were content to taketheir ease while sun was at its height.
-- A heavy warm somnolence lay over thehouse, as if it slept at ease like the girls, until night when it would burst into its full beauty with music and candleflames.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after each figure was disposed of, it was as much as I could do to get a bite or a sup, before the next came; while he sat at his ease guessing nothing, and eating bacon and hot roll, in (if I may be allowed the expression) a gorging and gormandizing manner.
-- For such reasons, I was very glad when ten o'clock came and we started for Miss Havisham's; though I was not at all at my ease regarding the manner in which I should acquit myself under that lady's roof.
-- I never could have believed it without experience, but as Joe and Biddy became more at their cheerful ease again, I became quite gloomy.
-- Clear of the house, I made the best of my way back to Pumblechook's, took off my new clothes, made them into a bundle, and went back home in my older dress, carrying it--to speak the truth--much more at my ease too, though I had the bundle to carry.
-- So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
-- Thus from being a rich man he became all at once so very poor that nothing was left to him but one small plot of land; and there he often went in an evening to take his walk, and ease his mind of a little of his trouble.
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