attitude是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 态度， 看法(to, toward, about) ； 姿势，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing his advance take the form of an attitude threatening a possible enclosure, if not compression, of her person, she edged off round the bush.
-- Gabriel settled into a despairing attitude of patience, and Cainy went on: "And there were great large houses, and more people all the week long than at Weatherbury club-walking on White Tuesdays.
-- Here, under the table, and leaning against forms and chairs in every conceivable attitude except the perpendicular, were the wretched persons of all the work-folk, the hair of their heads at such low levels being suggestive of mops and brooms.
-- Her attitude was that of a person who listens, either to the external world of sound, or to the imagined discourse of thought.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was old, with 126 Frankensteinsilver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love; the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were moulded with the finest symmetry, yet his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- War was men'sbusiness, not ladies', and they took her attitude as evidence of her femininity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You get at your mouth better (which after all is the object), and you save a good deal of the attitude of opening oysters, on the part of the right elbow."
-- There was a sofa where Mr. Pocket stood, and he dropped upon it in the attitude of the Dying Gladiator.
-- Still in that attitude he said, with a hollow voice, "Good night, Mr. Pip," when I deemed it advisable to go to bed and leave him.
-- As I sat down, and he preserved his attitude and bent his brows at his boots, I felt at a disadvantage, which reminded me of that old time when I had been put upon a tombstone.
-- said Estella, preserving her attitude of indifference as she leaned against the great chimney-piece and only moving her eyes; "do you reproach me for being cold?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she had to take her farewell of the male part of the company yet, and every one of them had to unfold his arms (for they all assumed the professional attitude when they found themselves near Sleary), and give her a parting kiss Master Kidderminster excepted, in whose young nature there was an original flavour of the misanthrope, who was also known to have harboured matrimonial views, and who moodily withdrew.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His attitude and mien were that of a man utterly stupefied.
-- His telescope is raised every moment to his eyes, and when he finds nothing to give any clue to our whereabouts, he assumes a Napoleonic attitude and walks anxiously.
-- His mouth was wide open; his eyes sparkled wildly behind his spectacles (which he had fortunately saved), his head bobbed up and down and from side to side, while his whole attitude and mien expressed unbounded astonishment.
-- Such was then the state of paleontologic science, and what we moreover knew sufficed to explain our attitude before this great cemetery of the plains of the Hardwigg Ocean.
-- When, however, I saw these two letters, which had been engraven three hundred years before, I stood fixed in an attitude of mute surprise.
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：
-- This squabble of her attitude to the servants was an old one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man who had been standing by the door in one attitude during the whole interview, looking at the mother up-stairs as he had looked at the son down-stairs, went out at the same time, and, after a longer absence, returned with another tray on which was the greater part of a bottle of port wine (which, to judge by his panting, he had brought from the cellar), a lemon, a sugar-basin, and a spice box.
-- As she placed the soup before the guest, who changed his attitude to a sitting one, he looked her full in the face, and his moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache.
-- In this attitude he fell directly into a reverie from which he was only aroused by his wife's calling to him from her ottoman, when they had been for some quarter of an hour alone.
-- She put a hand upon that arm, partly to rest upon it, and partly so to preserve their relative positions as that her intent look at him should be shaken by no change of attitude in either of them.
-- The young gentleman who was standing in an easy attitude on the hearth, cocking his glass at the company, with his back to the blaze and his coat tucked under his arms, something as if he were Of the Poultry species and were trussed for roasting, lost countenance at this reply; he seemed about to demand further explanation, when it was discovered through all eyes turning on the speaker that the lady with him, who was young and beautiful, had not heard what had passed through having fainted with her head upon his shoulder.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- President and gentlemen,' he began, assuming a parliamentary attitude and tone, 'I wish to propose the ad-mission of a new member one who highly deserves the honor, would be deeply grateful for it, and would add im-mensely to the spirit of the club, the literary value of the paper, and be no end jolly and nice.
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