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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they came to the sea, they got into a ship and dur-ing their voyage the two eldest said to themselves, 'Our brother has got the water which we could not find, there-fore our father will forsake us and give him the kingdom, which is our right'; so they were full of envy and revenge, and agreed together how they could ruin him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And thus he continued on, while my colour came and went several times, with indignation, to hear our noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honour, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so 129contemptuously treated.
-- Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions.
-- But those objects against which their envy seems principal-ly directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old.
-- I had formerly, upon occasion, discoursed with my master upon the nature of government in general, and par-ticularly of our own excellent constitution, deservedly the wonder and envy of the whole world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henry Lawson, I envy you."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's rooted in spite and envy, envy and spite.
-- Not a bit!I look at Charlie May, and the rest of the men who have affairs...No, I don't envy them a bit!If fate sent me a woman I wanted, well and good.
-- 'But when this envy and jealousy and discontent has once started,' she began.
-- I envy you that sun.
-- But I don't envy Sir Malcolm his inveterate mortal carnality.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What I envy you, sir, is,' said Mr Rugg, 'allow me to take your hat we are rather short of pegs I'll put it in the corner, nobody will tread on it there What I envy you, sir, is the luxury of your own feelings.
-- There might have been much more envy in politer places.
-- The day came, and the She-Wolf in the Capitol might have snarled with envy to see how the Island Savages contrived these things now-a-days.
-- I made it out that they triumphed above me, and that they wanted to make me envy them, when I know when I even knew then that they never thought of such a thing.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's like other people, you know, and I always envy girls who do such things, I'm so fond of luxury,' said Meg, trying to decide which of two shabby gowns was the least shabby.
-- What a pleasant life she might have if only she chose!I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think,' added Jo.
-- I didn't envy her then, for I felt that millions of carnelian rings wouldn't have made me happy after that.
-- 'By my faith, I envy him.
-- 'Do you envy her, Meg?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sure my sisters must all envy me.
-- 'I almost envy you the pleasure, and yet I believe it would be too much for me, or else I could take it in my way to New-castle.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspir-ing, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves fa-mous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, am-bition, and envy of the upper part of mankind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- " Elinor could have given her immediate relief by suggesting the possibility of its being Miss Morton's mother, rather than her own, whom they were about to behold; but instead of doing that, she assured her, and with great sincerity, that she did pity her to the utter amazement of Lucy, who, though really uncomfortable herself, hoped at least to be an object of irrepressible envy to Elinor.
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