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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fortunately a vigorous effort drove the wagon toward the opposite shore, and the bank began to slope upward, so that the horses and bullocks were able to regain their footing, and soon the whole party found themselves on the other side, glad enough, though wet enough too.
-- He tried to stimulate the bullocks to a fresh effort by voice and goad, but the animals were buried half-way up their legs, and could not stir.
-- But a crowning effort moved the mass which rolled down and disappeared.
-- Harry Grant was never spoken of; they were no longer in a position to make any effort on his behalf.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We may take it, therefore, that the letter was composed by an educated man who wished to pose as an uneducated one, and his effort to conceal his own writ-ing suggests that that writing might be known, or come to be known, by you.
-- Stapleton turned a ghastly face upon us, but by a supreme effort he had overcome his amazement and his disappoint-ment.
-- Already our friend's eyelids shiv-ered and he made a feeble effort to move.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Send me back then this one word of sympathy, only sympathy, I swear to you; and oh!do not be angry with the audacity of despair, with the drowning man who has dared to make this last effort to save himself from perishing be-neath the waters.
-- This lasted perhaps half a second, yet he distinctly remembered hearing the beginning of the wail, the strange, dreadful wail, which burst from his lips of its own accord, and which no effort of will on his part could suppress.
-- 'It appeared to me, at the first glance, that both the man and the woman were respectable people, but brought to that pitch of poverty where untidiness seems to get the better of every effort to cope with it, till at last they take a sort of bitter satisfaction in it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Elizabeth had now recollected herself, and making a strong effort for it, was able to assure with tolerable firmness that the prospect of their relationship was highly grateful to her, and that she wished her all imaginable happiness.
-- I write without any intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten; and the effort which the formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion, should have been spared, had not my char-acter required it to be written and read.
-- They proceeded in si-lence along the gravel walk that led to the copse; Elizabeth was determined to make no effort for conversation with a woman who was now more than usually insolent and dis-agreeable.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was, it required but a slight effort of fancy to connect his emotion with the tender recollection of past regard.
-- But the effort was painful.
-- But Elinor had more to do; and so anxious was she, for his sake and her own, to do it well, that she forced herself, after a moment's recollection, to welcome him, with a look and manner that were almost easy, and almost open; and another struggle, another effort still improved them.
-- An effort even yet lighter might have made her their friend.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So earnest an effort was well deserving of a better reward.
-- She felt the flow of the tide of effort and interest--felt her own helplessness without quite realising the wisp on the tide that she was.
-- She made one more vain effort and then burst into tears.
-- He smiled, as did the others in the room, who, however, made some slight effort to conceal their humour.
-- "Good-night," said Hurstwood at the final moment, in a last effort to be genial.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor little Donkey stuck out a long tongue and licked his nose for a long time in an effort to take away the pain.
-- Without another word, he swam swiftly away in an effort to reach land as soon as possible.
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