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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have no doubt that anxiety and exposure have driven him off his head.
-- He then had it returned and obtained anoth-er a most instructive incident, since it proved conclusively to my mind that we were dealing with a real hound, as no other supposition could explain this anxiety to obtain an old boot and this indifference to a new one.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were both highly amiable, but both appeared to be labouring under a half-hidden feeling of anxiety as to the result of Nastasia's deliberations with regard to Gania, which result was to be made public this evening.
-- He had kept but one idea before him all day, and for that he had worked in an agony of anxiety and a fever of suspense.
-- 'Well, well!I won't again,' said the master of the house his anxiety getting the better of his temper.
-- With regard to her eldest daughter, Al-exandra, the mother never quite knew whether there was cause for anxiety or not.
-- But the mother's great and continual anxiety was Aglaya.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the gods in Olympus were in a fury, but they could not reach you to set you free; when I caught any one of them I gripped him and hurled him from the heavenly threshold till he came fainting down to earth; yet even this did not relieve my mind from the incessant anxiety which I felt about noble Hercules whom you and Boreas had spite-fully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos, after suborning the tempests; but I rescued him, and notwithstanding all his mighty labours I brought him back again to Argos.
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：
-- The young man drew a pile of the sassafras from the cave, and placing it in the chasm which separated the two caverns, it was occupied by the sisters, who were thus protected by the rocks from any missiles, while their anxiety was relieved by the assurance that no danger could approach without a warning.
-- Duncan listened with intense anxiety for the strokes of the paddle, believing that flight was now their only refuge.
-- Our main hope,' he continued, raising his rugged countenance, across which a shade of anxiety just then passed like a darkening cloud, 'will be to keep the rock until Munro can send a party to our help!God send it may be soon and under a leader that knows the Indian customs!'
-- 'You hear our probable fortunes, Cora,' said Duncan, 'and you know we have everything to hope from the anxiety and experience of your father.
-- Heyward felt a burning desire to rush forward to meet them, so intense was the delirious anxiety of the moment; but he was restrained by the deliberate ex-amples of the scout and Uncas.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The courageous boy knew of the sailor's plan, and it was not without anxiety that he awaited the result of the proposal being made to the engineer.
-- Anxiety hastened his steps, for he longed to obtain news of his friend, and he soon disappeared round an angle of the cliff.
-- The sailor undoubtedly felt much greater anxiety than does the fisherman, for he does not see his prey coming through the water.
-- It recalled to Pencroft the day on which he lighted his only match, and all the anxiety of the operation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man had again relapsed into his former abstraction and took no notice of what passed, but I remarked that when her laugh was over, the child's bright eyes were dimmed with tears, called forth by the fullness of heart with which she welcomed her uncouth favourite after the little anxiety of the night.
-- And yet there was visible on the part of the child a painful anxiety for his reply, and consciousness of his power to render it disagreeable or distressing, which was strongly at variance with this impulse and restrained it more effectually than she could possibly have done by any efforts of her own.
-- Hence she had at last consented to play off against Richard Swiveller a stricken market-gardner known to be ready with his offer on the smallest encouragement, and hence as this occasion had been specially assigned for the purpose that great anxiety on her part for Richard Swiveller's presence which had occasioned her to leave the note he has been seen to receive.
-- Besides that it was very difficult to impart to any person not intimately acquainted with the life she led, an adequate sense of its gloom and loneliness, a constant fear of in some way committing or injuring the old man to whom she was so tenderly attached, had restrained her, even in the midst of her heart's overflowing, and made her timid of allusion to the main cause of her anxiety and distress.
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But their anxiety was unfounded; Nekhludoff, without knowing it, loved Katiousha, as innocent people love, and this very love was the principal safeguard against either his or her fall.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it.
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