passion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 激情，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：
-- I was blinded with passion and yielded to my worser mind; therefore I will make amends, and will give him great gifts by way of atonement.
-- Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithous, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintily-ancled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was apathetic, and I tried in vain to recover the enthusiasm of my first inquiries, the passion of discovery that had enabled me to compass even the downfall of my father's grey hairs.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a passion of despair I struck with my fists at the water in the bottom of the boat, and kicked savagely at the gunwale.
-- You cannot imagine what this means to an inves-tigator, what an intellectual passion grows upon him!You cannot imagine the strange, colourless delight of these intel-lectual desires!The thing before you is no longer an animal, a fellow-creature, but a problem!Sympathetic pain, all I know of it I remember as a thing I used to suffer from years ago.
-- A blind Fate, a vast pitiless Mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence and I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for drink), the Beast People with their in-stincts and mental restrictions, were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its in-cessant wheels.
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：
-- While the others were busily occupied in seeking to gratify their childish passion for fin-ery, by plundering even the miserable effects of the scout, or had been searching with such bloodthirsty vengeance in their looks for their absent owner, Le Renard had stood at a little distance from the prisoners, with a demeanor so quiet and satisfied, as to betray that he had already effect-ed the grand purpose of his treachery.
-- A few, and they not the least powerful and terrific of the band, threw lowering looks, in which the fiercest passion was only tem-pered by habitual self-command, at those captives who still remained in their power, while one or two even gave vent to their malignant feelings by the most menacing gestures, against which neither the sex nor the beauty of the sisters was any protection.
-- At first it seemed as if the remembrance of the promised reward grew vivid in his mind, while he listened to the sources of parental feeling which were to assure its possession; but, as Duncan pro-ceeded, the expression of joy became so fiercely malignant that it was impossible not to apprehend it proceeded from some passion more sinister than avarice.
-- Meeting every-where faces that he knew as friends, the savage grated his teeth together like rasps of iron, and swallowed his passion for want of a victim on whom to vent it.
-- On the other hand, the women broke out of the lodges, with the songs of joy and those of lamentation so strangely mixed that it might have been difficult to have said which passion preponderated.
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：
-- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
-- I admire their polish their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's Thesaurus in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull.
-- She had a real passion for reading (rare in her kind, who for the most part are more interested in the author than in his book, in the painter than in his pictures), and she invented a world of the imagination in which she lived with a freedom she never acquired in the world of every day.
-- I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
-- There was real passion in his voice, and in spite of myself I was impressed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sailor could rely upon Herbert; the young boy was well up in natural history, and always had had quite a passion for the science.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fountains of her heart were opened; the child, overpowered by the weight of her sorrows and anxieties, by the first confidence she had ever shown, and the sympathy with which her little tale had been received, hid her face in the arms of her helpless friend, and burst into a passion of tears.
-- Regardless of the run of luck, and mindful only of the desperate passion which had its hold upon her grandfather, losses and gains were to her alike.
-- Sometimes one would look up to smile to another, or to snuff the feeble candle, or to glance at the lightning as it shot through the open window and fluttering curtain, or to listen to some louder peal of thunder than the rest, with a kind of momentary impatience, as if it put him out; but there they sat, with a calm indifference to everything but their cards, perfect philosophers in appearance, and with no greater show of passion or excitement than if they had been made of stone.
-- Here was the old passion awakened again in her grandfather's breast, and to what further distraction it might tempt him Heaven only knew.
-- No passion in the face, no avarice, no anxiety, no wild desire; all gentle, tranquil, and at peace.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He recalled their last meeting, the passion which seized him at the time, and the disappointment that followed.
-- After a few more words about Countess Catherine Ivanovna and her passion for the new religious tendency which Vladimir Vasilievitch neither praised nor condemned, but which, for un homme tr脙篓s comme il faut, was evidently superfluous, he rang the bell.
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