stress是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 压力, 重压 vt. 着重, 强调重点, 重视，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Only one thing more,' said Mr. Lorry, laying stress upon it as a wholesome means of enforcing her attention: 'he has been found under another name; his own, long forgotten or long concealed.
-- (Laying the palest shadow of a stress upon the second word.)
-- This touched Young Jerry on a tender place; who adjured his mother to perform her first duty, and, whatever else she did or neglected, above all things to lay especial stress on the discharge of that maternal function so affectingly and delicately indicated by his other parent.
-- There has 287been a violent stress in one direction, and it needs a coun-terweight.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You lay too much stress on your devotion for me to value it much," she responded in the same jesting tone, involuntarily listening to the sound of Vronsky's steps behind them.
-- You wouldn't believe how uncomfortable" (he laid stress on the word uncomfortable) "it is to dine alone."
-- Besides, they're received everywhere, and I"--she laid special stress on the I--"have never been strict and intolerant.
-- "But you've rather a feverish-looking color," he said, laying stress on the word "feverish."
-- After all, you know, it's a growing thing!What they lay particular stress on is the thing being carried on honestly," said Stepan Arkadyevitch with emphasis.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Porfiry Petrovitch,' he began resolutely, though with considerable irritation, 'yesterday you expressed a desire that I should come to you for some inquiries' (he laid spe-cial stress on the word 'inquiries').
-- 'Another thing about Razumihin you certainly ought to have said that he came of his own accord, to have con-cealed your part in it!But you don't conceal it!You lay stress on his coming at your instigation.'
-- 'I heard and saw everything,' he said, laying stress on the last verb.
-- 'Do you know, Sonia,' he said suddenly with conviction, 'let me tell you: if I'd simply killed because I was hungry,' laying stress on every word and looking enigmatically but sincerely at her, 'I should be happy now.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water was out, overmiles and miles of the flat country adjacent to Yarmouth; and everysheet and puddle lashed its banks, and had its stress of littlebreakers setting heavily towards us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I therefore told him my small story, and laid stress on my being forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was.
-- And then she added, with a stress upon the words, "It is in the nature formed within me.
-- The late stress upon me had enabled me to put off illness, but not to put it away; I knew that it was coming on me now, and I knew very little else, and was even careless as to that.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we went along I could not help ruminating on the whole question, and asked myself if I did not lay too great a stress on these sudden and peculiar modifications of the earth's crust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her emphasis had been derived from her eyes quite as much as from the stress she laid upon her words.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Erskine was on the other side; and he then supported it by saying, that though the gentleman had originally harpooned the lady, and had once had her fast, and only by reason of the great stress of her plunging viciousness, had at last abandoned her; yet abandon her he did, so that she became a loose-fish; and therefore when a subsequent gentleman re-harpooned her, the lady then became that subsequent gentleman's property, along with whatever harpoon might have been found sticking in her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin laid great stress on the fact of his having taken Oliver in, and cherished him, when, without his timely aid, he might have perished with hunger; and he related the dismal and affecting history of a young lad whom, in his philanthropy, he had succoured under parallel circumstances, but who, proving unworthy of his confidence and evincing a desire to communicate with the police, had unfortunately come to be hanged at the Old Bailey one morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid on them, as nonsense?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as I had set my mast and sail, and the boat began to stretch away, I saw even by the clearness of the water some alteration of the current was near; for where the current was so strong the water was foul; but perceiving the water clear, I found the current abate; and presently I found to the east, at about half a mile, a breach of the sea upon some rocks: these rocks I found caused the current to part again, and as the main stress of it ran away more southerly, leaving the rocks to the north-east, so the other returned by the re-pulse of the rocks, and made a strong eddy, which ran back again to the north-west, with a very sharp stream.
-- I did not under-stand him a good while; but at last, when I had examined further into it, I understood by him that a boat, such as that had been, came on shore upon the country where he lived: that is, as he explained it, was driven thither by stress of weather.
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