automatic是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 自动的, 无意识的; n. 小型自动武器，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lay awake dreading burglars; footsteps in the hall were a creeping cutthroat; an unexplained scratching on the fire-escape was a murderer with an automatic in his fist.
-- They were embarrassed by the footmen, awed by the automatic elevator, oppressed by a hallway full of vellum folios and Italian chests and a drawing-room full of water-colors, and reduced to rusticity by Capitola's queenly white satin and pearls.
-- She fled before him into her palace, into the automatic elevator.
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：
-- Gerald was her escape from the heavy slough of the pale, underworld, automatic colliers.
-- And she relapsed into her activity of automatic consciousness, that would never end.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, as was shown by what followed, she was oddly exercising the faculty of invention upon the speciality of the clever Jacquet Droz, the designer of automatic substitutes for human limbs.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times, and how wide the interval between myself and these of the Golden Age!I was sensible of much which was unseen, and which contributed to my comfort; but save for a general impression of automatic organisation, I fear I can convey very little of the difference to your mind.
-- "I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilisation and a decadent humanity did not long endure.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg got up, took his hat in his left hand, put it on his head with an automatic motion, and went off without a word.
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