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：
-- Mary Grant saw it all from the brake, and in an agony of terror, speechless and almost unable even to see, stretched out her arms toward her little brother.
-- "Ah, what a day of agony that was!My heart was almost bursting.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agony of those contorted limbs struck me with a spasm of pain and blurred my eyes with tears.
-- With a last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet pawing furiously, and then fell limp upon its side.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had kept but one idea before him all day, and for that he had worked in an agony of anxiety and a fever of suspense.
-- The sight of the portrait face alone had filled his heart full of the agony of real sympathy; and this feeling of sympathy, nay, of actual SUFFERING, for her, had never left his heart since that hour, and was still in full force.
-- All those faithful people who were gazing at the cross and its mutilated occupant must have suffered agony of mind that evening; for they must have felt that all their hopes and al-most all their faith had been shattered at a blow.
-- Oh!never would he banish the recollection of this meeting with her, and he never re-membered it but with the same pain and agony of mind.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a lion fastens on the fawns of a hind and crushes them in his great jaws, robbing them of their tender life while he on his way back to his lair the hind can do nothing for them even though she be close by, for she is in an agony of fear, and flies through the thick forest, sweating, and at her utmost speed before the mighty monster so, no man of the Trojans could help Isus and Antiphus, for they were themselves flying panic before the Argives.
-- Then Minerva said, 'Dear brother, my father and mother went down on their knees and implored me, as did all my comrades, to remain inside, so great a fear has fallen upon them all; but I was in an agony of grief when I beheld you; now, therefore, let us two make a stand and fight, and let there be no keeping our spears in reserve, that we may learn whether Achilles shall kill us and bear off our spoils to the ships, or whether he shall fall before you.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heyward felt the grasp of the other at his throat, and saw the grim smile the savage gave, under the revengeful hope that he hurried his enemy to a fate similar to his own, as he felt his body slowly yield-ing to a resistless power, and the young man experienced the passing agony of such a moment in all its horrors.
-- said Alice, meekly folding her arms on her bosom, and struggling to conceal an agony of apprehension in behalf of Heyward, in the usual cold and distant manner with which she received the visits of her captor.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agony of it drove him up from the bed and out of the room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if he deserts me, Nell, at this moment if he deserts me now, when I should, with his assistance, be recompensed for all the time and money I have lost, and all the agony of mind I have undergone, which makes me what you see, I am ruined, and worse, far worse than that have ruined thee, for whom I ventured all.
-- The child, in the agony of being so near, had almost darted forward with the design of bursting into the room and closing it behind her, when the figure stopped again.
-- Her own name struck upon the listener's ear, coupled with some wish so fervent, that he seemed to breathe it in an agony of supplication.
-- cried the old man, clasping his hands and gazing as if for the first time upon her anxious face, her travel-stained dress, and bruised and swollen feet; 'has all my agony of care brought her to this at last!Was I a happy man once, and have I lost happiness and all I had, for this!'
-- Kit made an involuntary start towards the door in his anxiety to answer for himself, but being speedily detained by the constable, had the agony of seeing Sampson Brass run out alone to tell the story in his own way.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I was in an agony of discomfort.
-- Thrice I saw Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know how many hours passed thus, but I was conscious of the agony that was coming over me.
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：
-- He was suspended motionless, in an agony of inertia, like a machine that is without power.
-- I couldn't tell you the agony of them.
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