energy是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 活力, 精力; 能, 能量,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You summon no energy and pur-pose.
-- The energy which had at once supported him under his old sufferings and aggravated their sharpness, had been gradually restored to him.
-- In his recovered energy he was sometimes a little fitful and sudden, as he had at first been in the exercise of his other recovered faculties; but, this had never been frequently observable, and had grown more and more rare.
-- And when Jarvis Lorry saw the kindled eyes, the resolute face, the calm strong look and bearing of the man whose life always seemed to him to have been stopped, like a clock, for so many years, and then set going again with an energy which had lain dormant during the cessation of its usefulness, he believed.
-- I have known such energy as yours do great things before now though never,' he added, with a smile and a sigh together, 'such great things as this.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He felt that all his forces, hitherto dissipated, wasted, were centered on one thing, and bent with fearful energy on one blissful goal.
-- Of pluck--that is, energy and courage--Vronsky did not merely feel that he had enough; what was of far more importance, he was firmly convinced that no one in the world could have more of this "pluck" than he had.
-- The perspiration with which he was drenched cooled him, while the sun, that burned his back, his head, and his arms, bare to the elbow, gave a vigor and dogged energy to his labor; and more and more often now came those moments of unconsciousness, when it was possible not to think what one was doing.
-- Worst of all, the energy expended on this work was not simply wasted.
-- He could not help feeling now, since the meaning of this system had become clear to him, that the aim of his energy was a most unworthy one.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She considered herself a superb tennis player; she played it with energy and voluble swoopings and large lack of direction.
-- His friend Clif was boorish, his beloved Leora was rustic, however gallant she might be, and he himself wasted energy in hectic busyness and in astonishment at dullness.
-- He returned to the coach with the energy of that courageous land.
-- But since I've gone and given an imitation of him--I suppose it was probably disloyal-- I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
-- When Angus Duer discovered it he hinted, "Look here, Martin, I'm glad you're keeping on with your science, but if I were you I wouldn't, I think, waste too much energy on mere curiosity.
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:
-- His head felt rather dizzy; a sort of savage energy 224 Crime and Punishmentgleamed suddenly in his feverish eyes and his wasted, pale and yellow face.
-- Even his depression had passed, there was not a trace now of the energy with which he had set out 'to make an end of it all.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- '- which he screwed out of himself, with an energy thatmade his eyes start in his head.
-- I noticed, Iremember, as he paused, looking at me with his handsome head alittle thrown back, and his glass raised in his hand, that though the 396freshness of the sea-wind was on his face, and it was ruddy, therewere traces in it, made since I last saw it, as if he had appliedhimself to some habitual strain of the fervent energy which, whenroused, was so passionately roused within him.
-- So have you, Trot, in somethings, though I can't compliment you always'; and here my auntshook her own at me, with an energy peculiar to herself.
-- I will onlyadd, to what I have already written of my perseverance at this timeof my life, and of a patient and continuous energy which thenbegan to be matured within me, and which I know to be the strongpart of my character, if it have any strength at all, that there, onlooking back, I find the source of my success.
-- Without such assurance I should certainly have left italone, and bestowed my energy on some other endeavour.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
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