diligent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 勤奋的，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：
-- 'Even so,' replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular castor, to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods, and leaving his hearers in doubt to which of the young man's questions he responded; when, however, he had cooled his face, and recovered his breath, he continued, 'I hear you are riding to William Henry; as I am journey-ing thitherward myself, I concluded good company would seem consistent to the wishes of both parties.'
-- Unable to discover any new victim, these diligent workers of vengeance soon ap- proached their male prisoners, pronouncing the name 'La Longue Carabine,' with a fierceness that could not be easily mistaken.
-- While the diligent woodsmen were employed in this manner, Cora and Alice partook of that refreshment which duty required much more than inclination prompted them to accept.
-- Perceiving that, in his turn, he was unheeded, the faithful David followed the distracted sister, raising his voice again in sacred song, and sweeping the air to the measure, with his long arm, in diligent accompaniment.
-- 'We forget our errand,' returned the diligent Duncan.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one heeded a wry Scotch doctor, diligent but undramatic through the epidemic, who hinted that plagues have been known to slacken and cease without phage.
-- Holabird stared, assembled his mustache, departed from his Diligent Director manner, and spoke: "Wait a minute, if you don't mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found, on glancing at the remaining contents of the newspaper,that Mr. Micawber was a diligent and esteemed correspondent ofthat journal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 34In course of time, that is to say, after a couple of hours or so, of diligent application, Miss Brass arrived at the conclusion of her task, and recorded the fact by wiping her pen upon the green gown, and taking a pinch of snuff from a little round tin box which she carried in her pocket.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 195THE MISER IN THE BUSH farmer had a faithful and diligent servant, who had Aworked hard for him three years, without having been paid any wages.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would gladly have taken a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing the emperor would by no means permit; and, besides a diligent search into my pockets, his majesty engaged my honour 'not to carry away any of his subjects, although with their own consent and desire.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, the story at first had no idea of such a tree, sir, then gradually found it in winter, carried it through the changing season, saw it bud, saw it blossom, saw it bear fruit, saw the fruit ripen; in short, cultivated the tree in that diligent and minute manner before it got out of the bed-room window to steal the fruit, that many thanks had been offered up by belated listeners for the trees having been planted and grafted prior to Lord Decimus's time.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An inquiry was set on foot, and after diligent investigation they came upon his traces.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On one side hung a very large oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
-- For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fellows proved very honest and diligent after they were mastered and had their properties set apart for them.
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