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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We took our way through poor and sparse meadows, which made a desperate effort every year to show a little green.
-- Such was the result of my strenuous effort to resist his iron will.
-- My uncle and the guide made no effort to save themselves.
-- I could only faintly respond, but I also made a desperate effort to turn.
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：
-- It was a grey, still after-noon, with the dark-green dogs-mercury spreading under the hazel copse, and all the trees making a silent effort to open their buds.
-- It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the fulness of time, this correspondence showing signs of wearing out, and seeming to require an effort on the part of the correspondents to which in the hurried circumstances of departure many of them might not be equal, he established the custom of attending collegians of a certain standing, to the gate, and taking leave of them there.
-- Mr Pancks here made a singular and startling noise, produced by a strong blowing effort in the region of the nose, unattended by any result but that acoustic one.
-- 'Maggy and I have been to-night,' she answered, subduing herself with the quiet effort that had long been natural to her, 'to the theatre where my sister is engaged.'
-- 'But this is not,' she added, with the quiet effort again, 'what I have come to trouble you with, sir.
-- For Mr Pancks had suddenly made that blowing effort with unusual force.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she spoke, Amy showed the handsome flask which replaced the cheap one, and looked so earnest and humble in her little effort to forget herself that Meg hugged her on the spot, and Jo pronounced her 'a trump', while Beth ran to the window, and picked her finest rose to ornament the stately bottle.
-- You ought to make an effort and go visiting everywhere you are asked, then you'll have plenty of friends, and pleasant places to go to.
-- Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.
-- As that was impossible, she did her best to seem gay, and being rather excited, she succeeded so well that no one dreamed what an effort she was making.
-- It cost Meg an effort to say that, but Sallie did not see it and exclaimed in amiable surprise, 'Only that?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
-- At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first to perceive the whale's intent, by the crafty upraising of his head, a movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his hand had made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver, having taken down the shutters, and broken a pane of glass in his effort to stagger away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day, was graciously assisted by Noah: who having consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him.
-- said Fang, with a comical effort to look humane.
-- In the short time he had had to collect his senses, the boy had firmly resolved that, whether he died in the attempt or not, he would make one effort to dart upstairs from the hall, and alarm the family.
-- 'Now listen to me,' said the dying woman aloud, as if making a great effort to revive one latent spark of energy.
-- 'The mother,' said the woman, making a more violent effort than before; 'the mother, when the pains of death first came upon her, whispered in my ear that if her baby was born alive, and thrived, the day might come when it would not feel so much disgraced to hear its poor young mother named.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the desperation of her feelings, she resolved on one effort more, and, turning to Elizabeth, said: 'Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my ex-ample, and take a turn about the room.
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