climax是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 顶点, 小说等的高潮 v. 达到高潮，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah, ah!here's the climax at last, at half-past twelve!'
-- 'I had taken hold of the door-handle meanwhile, intend-ing to leave the room without reply; but I was panting with my run upstairs, and my exhaustion came to a climax in a violent fit of coughing, so bad that I could hardly stand.
-- 'Sometimes, thinking over this, I became quite numb with the terror of it; and I might well have deduced from this fact, that my 'last conviction' was eating into my being too fast and too seriously, and would undoubtedly come to its climax before long.
-- And for the climax I needed greater determination than I yet possessed.
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：
-- demanded the Huron, observing that Heyward hesitated in his desire to end the enumeration of benefits with that which might form the climax of an Indian's wish-es.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once Clif produced the masterpiece of throwing a brick into the sink beside the platform, just when Dr. Robertshaw was working up to his annual climax about the effects of brass bands on the intensity of the knee-jerk.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This climax of the series had been reached to-night on the aforesaid moor, and for the first time in the season its irregularities were forms without features; suggestive of anything, proclaiming nothing, and without more character than that of being the limit of something else the lowest layer of a firmament of snow.
-- She returned silent and weak denials to his charges, and swayed her head desperately, as if to thrust away the words as they came showering about her ears from the lips of the trembling man in the climax of life, with his bronzed Roman face and fine frame.
-- The sight, coming as it did, superimposed upon the other dark scenery of the previous days, formed a sort of climax to the whole panorama, and it was more than he could endure.
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：
-- The climax of sensual reaction, once reached in any direction, is reached finally, there is no going on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moral sort of fellows might suppose that Mr. James Harthouse derived some comfortable reflections afterwards, from this prompt retreat, as one of his few actions that made any amends for anything, and as a token to himself that he had escaped the climax of a very bad business.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg had an extra row of little curlpapers across her forehead, Jo had copiously anointed her afflicted face with cold cream, Beth had taken Joanna to bed with her to atone for the approaching separation, and Amy had capped the climax by putting a colthespin on her nose to uplift the offending feature.
-- I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a coupe,' said Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her nov-el, was not in the best mood for social enterprises.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first, to begin from the neck, was nearly six feet long; the second, third, and fourth were each successively longer, till you came to the climax of the fifth, or one of the middle ribs, which measured eight feet and some inches.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its many and growing commercial opportunities gave it widespread fame, which made of it a giant magnet, drawing to itself, from all quarters, the hopeful and the hopeless--those who had their fortune yet to make and those whose fortunes and affairs had reached a disastrous climax elsewhere.
-- She was very much aware that a climax was pending.
-- A climax was near and she would not sit idle.
-- As he passed through the depot proper the strain reached its climax and began to wane.
-- she asked Hurstwood one morning as a climax to some painful thoughts of her own.
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