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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ventured far up in spite of his being alone, straining his ear with painful eagerness to catch the faintest sound, and calling aloud in an agony of despair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
-- He regarded her from a point of view which in its remoteness, tender as it was, he little thought would have been unspeakable agony to her.
-- The agony into which the reflection wrought his mind was so distressing to see, that Mr Pancks took hold of himself by the hair of his head, and tore it in desperation at the spectacle.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg admired the tragedy, so Jo piled up the agony to suit her, while Amy objected to the fun, and, with the best intentions in life, Jo quenched the spritly scenes which relieved the somber character of the story.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!For worm-like, then, oh!who would craven crawl to land!Terrors of the terrible!is all this agony so vain?
-- It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe!The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side; all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood; all this was thrilling.
-- The whale was now going head out, and sending his spout before him in a continual tormented jet; while his one poor fin beat his side in an agony of fright.
-- A whale wounded (as we afterwards learned) in this part, but not effectually, as it seemed, had broken away from the boat, carrying along with him half of the harpoon line; and in the extraordinary agony of the wound, he was now dashing among the revolving circles like the lone mounted desperado Arnold, at the battle of Saratoga, carrying dismay wherever he went.
-- "Oh, my captain, my captain! noble heart go not go not! see, it's a brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion then!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet he burst into an agony of childish grief, as the cottage-gate closed after him.
-- One wretched breathless child, panting with exhaustion; terror in his looks; agony in his eyes; large drops of perspiration streaming down his face; strains every nerve to make head upon his pursuers; and as they follow on his track, and gain upon him every instant, they hail his decreasing strength with joy.
-- exclaimed Nancy, bursting into tears, and wringing the little basket and the street-door key in an agony of distress.
-- But the girl's voice was in his ear, beseeching him in such tones of agony to remember her, that he had not the heart to utter it.
-- Then the Jew, in an agony o f impatience, watched every morsel he put into his mouth; pacing up and down the room, meanwhile, in irrepressible excitement.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very mention of anything concerning the match threw her into an agony of ill-humour, and wherever she went she was sure of hearing it talked of.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agony of grief which overpowered them at first, was voluntarily renewed, was sought for, was created again and again.
-- She sat in an agony of impatience which affected every feature.
-- Her mother, still confident of their engagement, and relying as warmly as ever on his constancy, had only been roused by Elinor's application, to intreat from Marianne greater openness towards them both; and this, with such tenderness towards her, such affection for Willoughby, and such a conviction of their future happiness in each other, that she wept with agony through the whole of it.
-- In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles.
-- Well, at last, as I need not tell you, you were forced on me; and what a sweet figure I cut! what an evening of agony it was! Marianne, beautiful as an angel on one side, calling me Willoughby in such a tone! Oh, God! holding out her hand to me, asking me for an explanation, with those bewitching eyes fixed in such speaking solicitude on my face! and Sophia, jealous as the devil on the other hand, looking all that was Well, it does not signify; it is over now. Such an evening! I ran away from you all as soon as I could; but not before I had seen Marianne's sweet face as white as death. THAT was the last, last look I ever had of her; the last manner in which she appeared to me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It took all the hope and uncritical good-nature of the audience to keep from manifesting pity by that unrest which is the agony of failure.
-- "Ah," he thought, "the agony of it."
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