envy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 妒忌, 妒忌的对象; 羡慕，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, really, I envy you.
-- "Well, I'm glad you were successful," said Levin, who, at the same time, had a sense of envy that he had not succeeded in shooting the snipe.
-- Often Levin had admired this life, often he had a sense of envy of the men who led this life; but today for the first time, especially under the influence of what he had seen in the attitude of Ivan Parmenov to his young wife, the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he was leading for this laborious, pure, and socially delightful life.
-- "Of course I don't envy Serpuhovskoy and never could envy him; but his advancement shows me that one has only to watch one's opportunity, and the career of a man like me may be very rapidly made.
-- The delight he had experienced in the work itself, and the consequent greater intimacy with the peasants, the envy he felt of them, of their life, the desire to adopt that life, which had been to him that night not a dream but an intention, the execution of which he had thought out in detail --all this had so transformed his view of the farming of the land as he had managed it, that he could not take his former interest in it, and could not help seeing that unpleasant relation between him and the workspeople which was the foundation of it all.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, yes--" "Jove, I envy you two.
-- With this sadness there was envy that he should be left out of things, that others should go ahead of him, ever surer in technique, more widely aware of the phenomena of biological chemistry, more deeply daring to explain laws at which the pioneers had but fumbled and hinted.
-- But there was a steady calm about them; there was, Martin believed, no anxiety over money in their voices nor any restlessness of envy and scandalous gossip.
-- He owned The Blue Bazaar, the hugest stores in St. Hubert; he caused tobacco to be smuggled into Venezuela; he was as full of song and incaution and rum as Kellett the Red Leg was full of figures and envy and decency.
-- I certainly don't envy them!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In my honeymoon, too,when my most inveterate enemy might relent, one would think,and not envy me a little peace of mind and happiness.
-- You were always a puppy with a proud stomach, from your firstcoming here; and you envy me my rise, do you?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare say Miss Nash would envy you such an opportunity as this of being married.
-- 'It seems like madness!I can see nothing at all extraordinary in him now. I do not care whether I meet him or not except that of the two I had rather not see him and indeed I would go any distance round to avoid 410 Emmahim but I do not envy his wife in the least; I neither ad-mire her nor envy her, as I have done: she is very charming, I dare say, and all that, but I think her very ill-tempered and disagreeable I shall never forget her look the other night! However, I assure you, Miss Woodhouse, I wish her no evil. No, let them be ever so happy together, it will not give me another moment's pang: and to convince you that I have been speaking truth, I am now going to destroy what I ought to have destroyed long ago what I ought never to have kept I know that very well (blushing as she spoke). However, now I will destroy it all and it is my particular wish to do it in your presence, that you may see how rational I am grown.
-- 'And I do envy him, Emma.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Troy had felt, in his transient way, hundreds of times, that he could not envy other people their condition, because the possession of that condition would have necessitated a different personality, when he desired no other than his own.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of her friends had hinted at the possibility, and she had laughed at them, believing that envy had prompted those ladies to try to make mischief.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.
-- But when I discov-ered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness, that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was forever barred, then impo-tent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How sweet I'd look in that dress," thought Scarlett, a savage envy in her heart.
-- I shall say one hundred dollars and she'll tell everybody in town and everybody will be green with envy andtalk about my extravagance.
-- The boyswill be green with envy when they see me in the glory of my new coat and sash."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If you knowed, dear boy," he said to me, "what it is to sit here alonger my dear boy and have my smoke, arter having been day by day betwixt four walls, you'd envy me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she heard this she started with rage; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride.
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