effort是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 努力； 成就； 艰难的尝试，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the struggle, if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost with no visible resistance on its own part was un-disturbed by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly con-necting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made no effort to say why not, and said not a word more.
-- He tried to prepare himself in vain; perhaps the effort to prepare himself made him less able to bear it.'
-- As if his memory were impaired, or his faculties disor-dered, the prisoner made an effort to rally his attention.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face all at once took an expression of anger from the effort he was making to surmount his shyness.
-- You've not answered my question, though," he went on, with a desperate effort looking Oblonsky straight in the face.
-- He had to make an effort to master himself, and to remind himself that people of all sorts were moving about her, and that he too might come there to skate.
-- On the last step he stumbled, but barely touching the ice with his hand, with a violent effort recovered himself, and skated off, laughing.
-- she seemed to make an effort to control herself, to try not to show these signs of delight, but they came out on her face of themselves.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But tonight, in detestation of such literary playboys as Brumfit, he exalted Gottlieb's long, lonely, failure- burdened effort to synthesize antitoxin, and his diabolic pleasure in disproving his own contentions as he would those of Ehrlich or Sir Almroth Wright.
-- It was at the end of her hesitating effort to make him see her childhood that he cried, "Darling, you don't have to tell me about you.
-- There will never, in any age, be an effort to end the great epidemics or the petty infections which will not have been influenced by Max Gottlieb's researches, for he was not one who tagged and prettily classified bacteria and protozoa.
-- But the really dismaying thing was that he should by an effort to be a politician have interrupted the sacred work.
-- Thus, over certain hundreds of miles, from the gold and blue drawing-room of his Sewickley home, Hunziker spoke to Max Gottlieb sitting in his patched easy chair, and Gottlieb grated with a forlorn effort at dignity: "No, it iss all right."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did make an effort four years ago to give her a course of geography and universal history, but as I was not very well up in those subjects myself and we had no suitable books, and what books we had 芒聙娄 hm, anyway we have not even those now, so all our instruction came to an end.
-- With a kind of effort he began almost unconsciously, from some in-ner craving, to stare at all the objects before him, as though looking for something to distract his attention; but he did not succeed, and kept dropping every moment into brood-ing.
-- He threw down the whip, bent forward and picked up from the bottom of the cart a long, thick shaft, he took hold of one end with both hands and with an effort brandished it over the mare.
-- He made a violent effort to understand what it all meant.
-- This last complaint was so characteristic of Pyotr Petro-vitch, that Raskolnikov, pale with anger and with the effort of restraining it, could not help breaking into laughter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is not a character that I can suffer todevelop itself beneath my eyes without an effort at improvement.
-- A timely observation of the sense of power that there was in hisface, did more to bring back to my remembrance the entreaty ofAgnes, in its full force, than any effort I could have made.
-- What the Admiralty was to me that day; what nonsense I made ofour case in my mind, as I listened to it; how I saw 'DORA'engraved upon the blade of the silver oar which they lay upon thetable, as the emblem of that high jurisdiction, and how I felt whenMr. Spenlow went home without me (I had had an insane hopethat he might take me back again), as if I were a mariner myself,and the ship to which I belonged had sailed away and left me on adesert island; I shall make no fruitless effort to describe.
-- It is no great effort to make, I am sure, for such a friend as shehas been to me.
-- I gotsome breakfast on the Heath, and walked back to Doctors'Commons, along the watered roads and through a pleasant smellof summer flowers, growing in gardens and carried into town onhucksters' heads, intent on this first effort to meet our alteredcircumstances.
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