evil是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 邪恶的， 罪恶的n. 邪恶， 罪恶，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the fifth came evil tidings, not from the North but from the West.
-- Seeing the panic written on the little black face and fearing she might alarmMelanie by crying out evil tidings, Scarlett hastily put her finger to her lips and left the window.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous; but through good and evil I stuck to my books.
-- Deeming that a serene and unconscious contemplation of him would best beseem me, and would be most likely to quell his evil mind, I advanced with that expression of countenance, and was rather congratulating myself on my success, when suddenly the knees of Trabb's boy smote together, his hair uprose, his cap fell off, he trembled violently in every limb, staggered out into the road, and crying to the populace, "Hold me!I'm so frightened!"
-- But Herbert's was a very different case, and it often caused me a twinge to think that I had done him evil service in crowding his sparely furnished chambers with incongruous upholstery work, and placing the Canary-breasted Avenger at his disposal.
-- Let me start from my bed as I would, with the terror fresh upon me that he was discovered; let me sit listening, as I would with dread, for Herbert's returning step at night, lest it should be fleeter than ordinary, and winged with evil news,--for all that, and much more to like purpose, the round of things went on.
-- That evil genius, Compeyson, the worst of scoundrels among many scoundrels, knowing of his keeping out of the way at that time and of his reasons for doing so, of course afterwards held the knowledge over his head as a means of keeping him poorer and working him harder.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the old fox came once more, and scolded him for not following his advice; otherwise no evil would have be-fallen him: 'Yet,' said he, 'I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of my tail and hold fast.'
-- Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet giv-en her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years.
-- This evil thought took possession of her more and more, and made her behave very unkindly to the boy.
-- Just then she looked out of the window and saw him coming, and it seemed as if an evil spirit entered into her, for she snatched the apple out of her little daughter's hand, and said, 'You shall not have one before your brother.'
-- The little boy now came in, and the evil spirit in the wife made her say kindly to him, 'My son, will you have an apple?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The treasurer took a fancy to be jealous of his wife, from the malice of some evil tongues, who informed him that her grace had taken a violent affection for my person; and the court scandal ran for some time, that she once came pri-vately to my lodging.
-- 'He was amazed, how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I' (these were his expressions) 'could entertain such inhu-man ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive 168 Gulliver's Travelsmachines; whereof,' he said, 'some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver.
-- In a little time, I and my family and friends came to a right understanding: but my wife protested 'I should never go to sea any more;' although my evil destiny so ordered, that she had not power to hinder me, as the reader may know hereafter.
-- Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration.
-- As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and have no con-ceptions or ideas of what is evil in a rational creature, so their grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be whol-ly governed by it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the things it looks upon to bless.
-- The evil spirit of his life had flitted away again, months ago, and he had heard no more of her since.
-- At the same time, in bringing any distress upon the lady who is the subject of the present conversation, or in unfortunately compromising her in any way, or in committing myself by any expression of sentiments towards her, not perfectly reconcilable with in fact with the domestic hearth; or in taking any advantage of her father's being a machine, or of her brother's being a whelp, or of her husband's being a bear; I beg to be allowed to assure you that I have had no particularly evil intentions, but have glided on from one step to another with a smoothness so perfectly diabolical, that I had not the slightest idea the catalogue was half so long until I began to turn it over.
-- 'Say, young lady, if you please,' pursued Rachael, 'why, in an evil hour, you ever came to Stephen's that night.'
-- 'The poor man being about to leave the town, it came into his evil brain to cast suspicion on him?'
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：
-- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
-- Sharp, wicked electric lights at Stacks Gate!An undefinable quick of evil in them!And all the unease, the ever-shifting dread of the industrial night in the Midlands.
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