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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one spoke, but the very attitude of both servants and masters spoke their indignation at the conduct of the English Government.
-- His waiting attitude was full of dignity; indeed, to see him standing grave and motionless on his pedestal of rocks, one might have taken him for a statue of sang-froid.
-- Here the violence of the surf, as well as the unfriendly attitude of the natives, prevented his obtaining water, and he finally quitted these shores, giving them the name Staten-land or the Land of the States, in honor of the States-General.
-- The stationary attitude of the brig insured them some hours of repose.
-- He remained in that attitude for a minute that seemed an hour, his ear intent, his eye peering into the darkness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolate attitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John.
-- As Laurie spoke, he delivered a brown paper parcel to Meg, pilled Beth's hair ribbon, stared at Jo's bib pinafore, and fell into an attitude of mock rapture before Amy, then shook hands all round, and everyone began to talk.
-- Hat and coat were off, and every line of the active figure, resolute face, and commanding attitude was full of energy and meaning.
-- said Laurie, getting up and striking an attitude which suddenly changed from the imposing to the rapturous, as Amy's voice was heard call-ing, 'Where is she?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He loaded it, and rammed home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, "Down, down all, and give way! there they are!"
-- In that fine, loose, chivalrous attitude of the headsman when drawing near to his prey, the three mates stood up proudly, occasionally backing the after oarsman with an exhilarating cry of, "There she slides, now!Hurrah for the white-ash breeze!Down with the Yarman!Sail over him!"
-- In this attitude the White Whale now shook the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His breast heaved; his attitude was erect; his eye bright and vivid; his whole person changed, as he stood glaring over the cowardly tormentor who now lay crouching at his feet; and defied him with an energy he had never known before.
-- He took little heed of this at first; but the boy remained in the same attitude of close observation so long, that Oliver raised his head, and returned his steady look.
-- Standing, then in an irresolute attitude for a few minutes, as if he did not well know how to employ himself, he turned round and looked at Oliver, and called him by his name.
-- Whether it was the sense of freedom and independence which a rational animal may be supposed to feel when he sits on a table in an easy attitude smoking a pipe, swinging one leg carelessly to and fro, and having his boots cleaned all the time, without even the past trouble of having taken them off, or the prospective misery of putting them on, to disturb his reflections; or whether it was the goodness of the tobacco that soothed the feelings of the Dodger, or the mildness of the beer that mollified his thoughts; he was evidently tinctured, for the nonce, with a spice of romance and enthusiasm, foreign to his general nature.
-- She clutched the matron by the arm, and forcing her into a chair by the bedside, was about to speak, when looking round, she caught sight of the two old women bending forward in the attitude of eager listeners.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor advised her to lie down again, and for a moment she did so; but no attitude could give her ease; and in restless pain of mind and body she moved from one posture to another, till growing more and more hysterical, her sister could with difficulty keep her on the bed at all, and for some time was fearful of being constrained to call for assistance.
-- He was sitting in an attitude of deep meditation, and seemed not to hear her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The attitude of the flat was fast becoming unbearable.
-- Chapter X THE COUNSEL OF WINTER--FORTUNE'S AMBASSADOR CALLS In the light of the world's attitude toward woman and her duties, the nature of Carrie's mental state deserves consideration.
-- She was wondering what Drouet had told him, what her attitude would be.
-- Carrie, now that she had yielded sufficiently to Hurstwood to confess her affection, no longer troubled about her attitude towards him.
-- As for Drouet, his attitude had been that of the jealous lover.
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