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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' Yet he would be so anxious for her being perfectly warm, would be so interested about her father, and so delighted with Mrs. Weston; and at last would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so lit-tle knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover, and made it some effort with her to preserve her good manners.
-- There she was welcomed, with the utmost delight, by her father, who had been trembling for the dangers of a soli-tary drive from Vicarage Lane turning a corner which he could never bear to think of and in strange hands a mere common coachman no James; and there it seemed as if her return only were wanted to make every thing go well: for Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel perfectly sensible of its be-ing exceedingly wholesome; and the day was concluding in peace and comfort to all their little party, except herself. But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheer-ful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- laughed the married man with a hideous effort of appreciation, for he was as irrepressibly good-humoured under ghastly snubs as a parliamentary candidate on the hustings.
-- The fact that four centuries had neither proved it to be founded on a mistake, inspired any hatred of its purpose, nor given rise to any reaction that had battered it down, invested this simple grey effort of old minds with a repose, if not a grandeur, which a too curious reflection was apt to disturb in its ecclesiastical and military compeers.
-- The sun had crept round the tree as a last effort before death, and then began to sink, the shearers' lower parts becoming steeped in embrowning twilight, whilst their heads and shoulders were still enjoying day, touched with a yellow of self-sustained brilliancy that seemed inherent rather than acquired.
-- He brimmed with deep feeling as he replied in a steady voice, the steadiness of which was spoilt by the palpableness of his great effort to keep it so: "You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always.
-- It is possible that there was this golden legend under the utilitarian one: "I will help to my last effort the woman I have loved so dearly."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hang-ing in the stars and ready to envelop me.
-- It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was in-effectual.
-- I strug-gled vainly for firmness sufficient to answer him, but the effort destroyed all my remaining strength; I sank on the chair and sobbed aloud.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being the least analytic ofpeople, she did not realize that this was because she possessed in some degree these same qualities, despite sixteenyears of effort on the part of Ellen and Mammy to obliterate them.
-- It was a wonderful day for Charles, a dream day, and he had fallen in love with Scarlettwith no effort at all.
-- "Mother, you've still got me," said Phil, in a forlorn effort at comforting the white-faced woman beside him.
-- He wheezed and started, but he walked soslowly as she turned him into the road she knew she could walk faster herself with no effort whatever.
-- "Daughter," he said with an effort "Daughter."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose I found to be quite awful.
-- The other, with an effort at a scornful smile, which could not, however, collect the nervous working of his mouth into any set expression, looked at the soldiers, and looked about at the marshes and at the sky, but certainly did not look at the speaker.
-- Of course I made no further effort to refer to it.
-- "Miss Havisham," said Joe, with a fixed look at me, like an effort of remembrance, "made it wery partick'ler that we should give her--were it compliments or respects, Pip?"
-- "And wishing," pursued Joe, with another fixed look at me, like another effort of remembrance, "that the state of Miss Havisham's elth were sitch as would have--allowed, were it, Pip?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she cried, with something between a furious menace and an effort at a defiant dance.
-- Bounderby,' he resumed, in a lighter manner, and yet with a show of effort in assuming it, which was even more expressive than the manner he dismissed; 'it is no irrevocable offence in a young fellow of your brother's years, if he is heedless, inconsiderate, and expensive a little dissipated, in the common phrase.
-- 'Candidly to confess everything that has occurred to me,' said James Harthouse, again gliding with the same appearance of effort into his more airy manner; 'I will confide to you my doubt whether he has had many advantages.
-- She took her hands suddenly from his shoulders, and pressed them both upon her side; while in her face, not like itself and in her figure, drawn up, resolute to finish by a last effort what she had to say the feelings long suppressed broke loose.
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