agony是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 极度痛苦，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：
-- Miss, if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the be-lief that her father was dead No, don't kneel!In Heaven's name why should you kneel to me!'
-- 'If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having 64 A tale of two citiesnever for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it!Weep for her, then, and for me!Good gentlemen, thank God!I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart.
-- those were not tears all of agony that wetted his young mother's cheek, as the spirit departed from her embrace that had been en-trusted to it.
-- Down, and up, and head foremost on the steps of the building; now, on his knees; now, on his feet; now, on his back; dragged, and struck at, and stifled by the bunches of grass and straw that were thrust into his face by hundreds of hands; torn, bruised, panting, bleeding, yet always en-treating and beseeching for mercy; now full of vehement agony of action, with a small clear space about him as the people drew one another back that they might see; now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs; he was hauled to the nearest street corner where one of the fatal lamps swung, and there Madame Defarge let him go as a cat might have done to a mouse and silently and com-posedly looked at him while they made ready, and while he besought her: the women passionately screeching at him all 319the time, and the men sternly calling out to have him killed with grass in his mouth.
-- The agony of our impatience is then so great, that in our wild alarm and hurry we are for getting out and running hiding doing anything but stopping.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality our own time which, with all its deficiencies, is yet much better than that in which, so much against his inclination, he had lately been.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards--for several years after-- that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.
-- Wasted and flushed, with a peculiar glitter in her eyes, left there by the agony of shame she had been put through, Kitty stood in the middle of the room.
-- She was in an agony of terror for Vronsky, but a still greater agony was the never-ceasing, as it seemed to her, stream of her husband's shrill voice with its familiar intonations.
-- After a fearful agony and a sense of something huge, bigger than the head itself, being torn out of his jaw, the sufferer, hardly able to believe in his own good luck, feels all at once that what has so long poisoned his existence and enchained his attention, exists no longer, and that he can live and think again, and take interest in other things besides his tooth.
-- The agony had been strange and terrible, but now it was over; he felt that he could live again and think of something other than his wife.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agony grew while he was prayed over and sung over.
-- The detective sergeant coming in not to detect but to see the charming spectacle of the mouse dying in agony from cigarette paper, stopped before the booth of the Eugenic Family, scratched his head, hastened to the police station, and returned with certain pictures.
-- Nothing was destroyed save the Clean House, and the crowd which had fled in agony came back in wonder.
-- Stumbling through the snow, blundering in darkness against stumps, he knew the agony of his last hour, the hour of failure.
-- He learned to dive into the lake, though the first plunge was an agony of fiery cold.
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：
-- He describes the awful agony of the condemned man and insists on the cruelty of inflicting such torture.
-- When he reached the turning into the street, in an agony of trepidation he looked down it 芒聙娄 at the house 芒聙娄 and at once averted his eyes.
-- I had to endure all the agony of that battle of ideas, Sonia, and I longed to throw it off: I wanted to murder without casuistry, to murder for my own sake, for myself alone!I didn't want to lie about it even to myself.
-- But all this continual anxiety and agony of mind could not but affect him.
-- It wasn't enough for him to suffer agony behind the door while they battered at the door and rung the bell, no, he had to go to the empty lodging, half delirious, to recall the bell-ringing, he wanted to feel the cold shiver over again芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No words can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk intothis companionship; compared these henceforth every-dayassociates with those of my happier childhood- not to say withSteerforth, Traddles, and the rest of those boys; and felt my hopesof growing up to be a learned and distinguished man crushed inmy bosom.
-- As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars,and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones ofwhich may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my 164childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting inthe crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, tothe echo of Captain Hopkins's voice!When my thoughts go backnow, to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of thehistories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy overwell-remembered facts!When I tread the old ground, I do notwonder that I seem to see and pity, going on before me, aninnocent romantic boy, making his imaginative world out of suchstrange experiences and sordid things.
-- 'This is either insanity or intoxication,' said Miss Murdstone, in aperfect agony at not being able to turn the current of my aunt'saddress towards herself; 'and my suspicion is that it's intoxication.'
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