exert是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 发挥, 行使, 尽力，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Agamemnon answered, 'Sir, you may sometimes blame him justly, for he is often remiss and unwilling to exert himself not indeed from sloth, nor yet heedlessness, but because he looks to me and expects me to take the lead.
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：
-- When the meal was ended, the scout cast a glance up-ward at the setting sun, and pushed forward with a rapidity which compelled Heyward and the still vigorous Munro to exert all their muscles to equal.
-- By the assistance of our experienced and invaluable friend, the scout, we may find our way from this savage people, but you will have to exert your utmost forti-tude.
-- Munro seemed sensible that the time was come for him to exert what is, perhaps, the greatest effort of which human nature is capable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller heard this account with a degree of admiration not altogether consistent with the project in which he had just concurred, but his friend attached very little importance to his behavior in this respect, probably because he knew that he had influence sufficient to control Richard Swiveller's proceedings in this or any other matter, whenever he deemed it necessary, for the advancement of his own purposes, to exert it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was raised in an intelligent, noble family, and could make her living by honest toil, but she leaves them, yields to her passions, and displays an intelligence, and especially, as you have heard here, gentlemen of the jury, an ability to exert influence on people by that mysterious, lately discovered by science, especially by the school of Charcot, power known by the name of hypnotic suggestion.
-- Another one in my place would hardly exert himself as I do.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was male, so she must exert some kind of power over him.
-- But very soon, he began to ignore her female tactics, he dropped his respect for her whims and her privacies, he began to exert his own will blindly, without submitting to hers.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor, too, was deeply afflicted; but still she could struggle, she could exert herself.
-- "I begged him to exert himself for fear you should suspect what was the matter; but it made him so melancholy, not being able to stay more than a fortnight with us, and seeing me so much affected. Poor fellow! I am afraid it is just the same with him now; for he writes in wretched spirits.
-- Think of your mother; think of her misery while YOU suffer: for her sake you must exert yourself."
-- Elinor resolving to exert herself, though fearing the sound of her own voice, now said,"Is Mrs. Ferrars at Longstaple?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had some power of initiative, latent before, which now began to exert itself.
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