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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The eagle let go her hold; she did not succeed in taking it home to her little ones, and so will it be with ourselves; even though by a mighty effort we break through the gates and wall of the Achaeans, and they give way before us, still we shall not return in good or-der by the way we came, but shall leave many a man behind us whom the Achaeans will do to death in defence of their ships.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it.
-- "It was only by a frantic effort of will that I dragged myself back to the apparatus and completed the process.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last with an effort I put out the light and got into the hammock.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting, and so they left him to come on later, while Bagheera hurried forward, at the quick panther-canter.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice made no very powerful effort to control her merriment; and even the dark, thoughtful eye of Cora light-ed with a humor that it would seem, the habit, rather than the nature, of its mistress repressed.
-- Every effort to detect the point most regarded by the runner was completely frustrated by the tremulous glances of his organs, which seemed not to rest a single instant on any particular object, and which, at the same time, could be hardly said to move.
-- Glancing his eyes around, with a vain effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if, cut off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might render their blows more fatally certain.
-- Duncan affected not to comprehend the mean-ing of their repeated and violent interrogatories, while his companion was spared the effort of a similar deception by his ignorance of French.
-- The young soldier made a desperate but fruitless effort to spring to the side of Alice, when he saw the dark hand of a savage twisted in the rich tresses which were flowing in volumes over her shoulders, while a knife was passed around the head from which they fell, as if to de-note the horrid manner in which it was about to be robbed of its beautiful ornament.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came clattering up to the school-door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry - making or 'quilting-frolic,' to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having, delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook, and was seen scampering, away up the Hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Strickland seemed to make an effort over herself.
-- I had the feeling that he worked on a canvas with all the force of his violent personality, oblivious of everything in his effort to get what he saw with the mind's eye; and then, having finished, not the picture perhaps, for I had an idea that he seldom brought anything to completion, but the passion that fired him, he lost all care for it.
-- Stroeve made a great effort to collect himself.
-- He made an effort to collect himself.
-- I began to feel that my abhorrence for Strickland could only be sustained by an effort on my part.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.
-- Towards twelve o'clock, Pencroft having asked the engineer if they could now remove him, Harding, instead of replying, and by an effort which exhibited the most energetic will, got up.
-- The movable part, balanced by the counterpoise, swung easily, and only a slight effort was needed to rise it; between its hinge and the last cross-bar on which it rested when closed, there existed a space of twenty feet, which was sufficiently wide to prevent any animals from crossing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said after a short effort of attention, 'it was not the towel over my ears, I thought it wasn't.
-- CHAPTER 20Day after day as he bent his steps homeward, returning from some new effort to procure employment, Kit raised his eyes to the window of the little room he had so much commended to the child, and hoped to see some indication of her presence.
-- As he said nothing further, and declined taking the hint, Mr Brass was fain to propose that they should go up stairs together, and make a last effort to awaken the sleeper by some less violent means, which, if they failed on this last trial, must positively be succeeded by stronger measures.
-- Every effort I have made to penetrate it, has only served to render it darker and more obscure; and I am afraid to stir openly in the matter, lest those whom I anxiously pursue, should fly still farther from me.
-- why cannot we push them back, only a week or two in our memories, so as to put them at once at that convenient distance whence they may be regarded either with a calm indifference or a pleasant effort of recollection!why will they hang about us, like the flavour of yesterday's wine, suggestive of headaches and lassitude, and those good intentions for the future, which, under the earth, form the everlasting pavement of a large estate, and, upon it, usually endure until dinner-time or thereabouts!
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