anxiety是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 忧虑, 渴望，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Recalled by his request,preferred in quite another tone of voice, I did the honours of theshaving-pot; but I did them with an unsteadiness of hand, asudden sense of being no match for him, and a perplexedsuspicious anxiety as to what he might be going to say next, whichI felt could not escape his observation.
-- If such isthe case, and Mr. Micawber forfeits no privilege by entering onthese duties, my anxiety is set at rest.
-- I was in a flutter of pride and anxiety; pride in my dear littlebetrothed, and anxiety that Agnes should like her.
-- Knowing theunfortunate difference between himself and his mother, and whather anxiety of mind was likely to be, I took the liberty of cominghome to England, and relating-' 'For money which I paid him,'said Miss Dartle to me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I 126 Emmatrust, at least, that you do not think Mr. Knightley looking ill,' turning her eyes with affectionate anxiety towards her husband.
-- Emma liked the subject so well, that she began upon it, to Mrs. Weston, very soon after their moving into the draw-ing-room: wishing her joy yet observing, that she knew the first meeting must be rather alarming. Mrs. Weston agreed to it; but added, that she should be very glad to be se-cure of undergoing the anxiety of a first meeting at the time talked of: 'for I cannot depend upon his coming.
-- The aunt was as tiresome as ever; more tiresome, because anxiety for her health was now added to admiration of her powers; and they had to listen to the description of exactly how little bread and butter she ate for breakfast, and how small a slice of mutton for dinner, as well as to see exhibi-tions of new caps and new workbags for her mother and herself; and Jane's offences rose again.
-- He could now, with-out the drawback of a single unpleasant surmise, without a glance forward at any possible treachery in his guest, give way to all his natural kind-hearted civility in solicitous in-quiries after Mr. Frank Churchill's accommodation on his journey, through the sad evils of sleeping two nights on the road, and express very genuine unmixed anxiety to know that he had certainly escaped catching cold which, how-ever, he could not allow him to feel quite assured of himself till after another night.
-- And though the consequent shock and alarm was very great and much more durable indeed I believe it was half an hour before any of us were comfortable again yet that was too general a sensation for any thing of peculiar anxiety to be observable.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We hear that ye be a extraordinary good and clever man, shepherd," said Joseph Poorgrass with considerable anxiety from behind the maltster's bedstead, whither he had retired for safety.
-- A distressing explanation of this anxiety to be rid of him at that point now ensued.
-- The anxiety upon Troy's face was unusual and very marked.
-- In the turmoil of her anxiety for her lover she had agreed to marry him; but the perception that had accompanied her happiest hours on this account was rather that of self-sacrifice than of promotion and honour.
-- By this time stupor had given place to anxiety, and anxiety began to make room for hunger and thirst.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With an anxiety that al-most amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
-- I have written myself into better spirits, dear cousin; but my anxiety returns upon me as I conclude.
-- 'I will write instantly and relieve them from the anxiety they must feel.'
-- I felt as if I was about the com-mission of a dreadful crime and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow creatures.
-- I shut up, as well as I could, in my own heart the anxiety that preyed there and entered with seeming earnestness into the plans of my father, although they might only serve as the decorations of my tragedy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a month before he had news, news that raised themto the heights when they first heard it, but later created a gnawing anxiety In their hearts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chokings and nervous jerkings, however, are nothing new to me when I think with anxiety of those I love.
-- She manifested the greatest anxiety to be on good terms with him, was evidently much pleased by his being at length produced, and motioned that she would have him given something to drink.
-- There was a red-eyed little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in company with a second little Jew whom he sent upon an errand; and while the messenger was gone, I remarked this Jew, who was of a highly excitable temperament, performing a jig of anxiety under a lamp-post and accompanying himself, in a kind of frenzy, with the words, "O Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth!all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!"
-- The royal phantom also carried a ghostly manuscript round its truncheon, to which it had the appearance of occasionally referring, and that too, with an air of anxiety and a tendency to lose the place of reference which were suggestive of a state of mortality.
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