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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only----" With some effort he overcame his shyness, and remembering how people generally act in such a case, he put his arm about Katiousha's waist.
-- When she entered the room, without looking at her, he felt her presence with all his being, and had to make an effort not to look at her.
-- The puppy squeals, pulls back in his effort to escape the consequences of his deed, which he wishes to forget, but the inexorable master holds him fast.
-- "It is hardly proper for me to come here to put people out of temper," he thought, and, in an effort to be pleasant, he said that he would go with pleasure if the Princess were in a mood to receive him.
-- he asked, making a particular effort to be polite.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As they made no effort to communicate with me, but simply stood round me smiling and speaking in soft cooing notes to each other, I began the conversation.
-- For the first time I began to realise an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged.
-- It took no very great mental effort to infer that my Time Machine was inside that pedestal.
-- It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so large that she couldn't help feeling a little shy with it, as she had been with the mutton; however, she conquered her shyness by a great effort and cut a slice and handed it to the Red Queen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The attitude of the four sailors was frightful, distorted as they were by their convulsive movements, whilst making a last effort to free themselves from the cords that bound them to the vessel.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly her face puckered, her brow was knit with thought, she seemed twisted in troublesome effort for utterance.
-- He had to make an effort to know their relation to him.
-- He saw the moon regathering itself insidiously, saw the heart of the rose intertwining vigorously and blindly, calling back the scattered fragments, winning home the fragments, in a pulse and in effort of return.
-- It was a great effort to him to maintain this conversation, and to press for the thing he wanted from her, the surrender of her spirit.
-- Hermione, who brooded and brooded till she was exhausted with the ache of her effort at consciousness, spent and ashen in her body, who gained so slowly and with such effort her final and barren conclusions of knowledge, was apt, in the presence of other women, whom she thought simply female, to wear the conclusions of her bitter assurance like jewels which conferred on her an unquestionable distinction, established her in a higher order of life.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought, if I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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