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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ecstasy!What are my agony and indignation next day, when I heara flying rumour that the Misses Nettingall have stood MissShepherd in the stocks for turning in her toes!
-- She lifted up her head, and looked darkly round at him for amoment; then laid it down again, and curved her right arm abouther neck, as a woman in a fever, or in an agony of pain from a shot,might twist herself.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half a dozen natural children, perhaps and poor Frank cut off! This, though very undesirable, would be no mat-ter of agony to her.
-- They never could have been all three to-gether, without her having stabbed Jane Fairfax's peace in a thousand instances; and on Box Hill, perhaps, it had been the agony of a mind that would bear no more.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her face was drawn into an expression which had gladness and agony both among its elements.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
-- It was an historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.
-- Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.
-- 'I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
-- The inside of the cottage was dark, and I heard no motion; I cannot describe the agony of this suspense.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was naturally embarrassed and shy, and in agony lestthey be overheard.
-- The thought of this strange boy whomshe hadn't really wanted to marry getting into bed with her, when her heart was breaking with an agony of regret at herhasty action and the anguish of losing Ashley forever, was too much to be borne.
-- Atlanta was in agony and panic.
-- Stiffly, Scarlett climbed down from the seat, each movement of agony of aching muscles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these things I saw without then knowing that I saw them, for I was in an agony of apprehension.
-- I dropped my face into my hands, but was able to control myself better than I could have expected, considering what agony it gave me to hear her say those words.
-- Estella's father would believe I had deserted him, would be taken, would die accusing me; even Herbert would doubt me, when he compared the letter I had left for him with the fact that I had called at Miss Havisham's gate for only a moment; Joe and Biddy would never know how sorry I had been that night, none would ever know what I had suffered, how true I had meant to be, what an agony I had passed through.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By an earnest repetition of this entreaty, poured out in all the agony of such a moment, Sissy at last brought her to be silent, and to look at her with a tearless face of stone.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here it is," gasped the Professor in an agony of joy, "here it is--we have found it.
-- On Friday, after a night when I began to feel the gnawing agony of thirst, and when in consequence appetite decreased, our little band rose and once more followed the turnings and windings, the ascents and descents, of this interminable gallery.
-- My brain throbbed with agony as I tried to discover the solution of this terrible problem.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at the same time, never had she felt so acutely the agony of her own female forlornness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunates with wrongs, or with projects for the general welfare (and they had better have had wrongs at first, than have taken that bitter English recipe for certainly getting them), who in slow lapse of time and agony had passed safely through other public departments; who, according to rule, had been bullied in this, over-reached by that, and evaded by the other; got referred at last to the Circumlocution Office, and never reappeared in the light of day.
-- She clasped her hands in quite an agony of distress.
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