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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image, feeling but ill at ease meantime to see what was next to follow.
-- They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.
-- Jonah sees this; but in vain he tries to look all ease and confidence; in vain essays his wretched smile.
-- So that with ease he elevates it in the air, and invariably does so when going at his utmost speed.
-- Nor does this its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful flexion of its motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver, groping his way with one hand, and having the other firmly grasped by his companion, ascended with much difficulty the dark and broken stairs: which his conductor mounted with an ease and expedition that showed he was well acquainted with them.
-- Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from.
-- All this, Mr. Brownlow, although himself somewhat of an impetuous gentleman: knowing his friend's peculiarities, bore with great good humour; as Mr. Grimwig, at tea, was graciously pleased to express his entire approval of the muffins, matters went on very smoothly; and Oliver, who made one of the party, began to feel more at his ease than he had yet done in the fierce old gentleman's presence.
-- The latter gentleman, who did not appear quite so much accustomed to good society, or quite so much at his ease in it--one of the two--seated himself, after undergoing several muscular affections of the limbs, and the head of his stick into his mouth, with some embarrassment.
-- At last, he couldn't help shutting 'em, to ease 'em a minute; and the very moment he did so, he hears Chickweed a-roaring out, "Here he is!"
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Colonel Fitzwilliam entered into conversation directly with the readiness and ease of a well-bred man, and talk-ed very pleasantly; but his cousin, after having addressed a slight observation on the house and garden to Mrs. Collins, sat for some time without speaking to anybody.
-- But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to charac- terise her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards ev- eryone, had been scarcely ever clouded.
-- He inquired in a friendly, though general way, after her family, and looked and spoke with the same good-humoured ease that he had ever done.
-- Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish, self-reproach, she could find no interval of ease or forgetfulness.
-- It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his man-ners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure.
-- I had, indeed, got two pair of shoes now, which I took off the feet of two drowned men whom I saw in the wreck, and I found two pair more in one of the chests, which were very welcome to me; but they were not like our English shoes, either for ease or service, being rather what we call pumps than shoes.
-- I observed the poor affectionate creature, every two min-utes, or perhaps less, all the while he was here, turn his head about to see if his father was in the same place and pos-ture as he left him sitting; and at last he found he was not to be seen; at which he started up, and, without speaking a word, flew with that swiftness to him that one could scarce perceive his feet to touch the ground as he went; but when he came, he only found he had laid himself down to ease his limbs, so Friday came back to me presently; and then I spoke to the Spaniard to let Friday help him up if he could, and lead him to the boat, and then he should carry him to our dwelling, where I would take care of him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In every meeting of the kind Willoughby was included; and the ease and familiarity which naturally attended these parties were exactly calculated to give increasing intimacy to his acquaintance with the Dashwoods, to afford him opportunity of witnessing the excellencies of Marianne, of marking his animated admiration of her, and of receiving, in her behaviour to himself, the most pointed assurance of her affection.
-- I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility!"
-- "Thank you," cried Lucy warmly, "for breaking the ice; you have set my heart at ease by it; for I was somehow or other afraid I had offended you by what I told you that Monday."
-- Elinor thought it wisest to make no answer to this, lest they might provoke each other to an unsuitable increase of ease and unreserve; and was even partly determined never to mention the subject again.
-- To atone for this conduct therefore, Elinor took immediate possession of the post of civility which she had assigned herself, behaved with the greatest attention to Mrs. Jennings, talked with her, laughed with her, and listened to her whenever she could; and Mrs. Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She twisted and turned from one position to another slightly different, but it did not ease her for long.
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