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：
-- A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
-- He really felt, when he had his periods of energy and worked so hard at the question of the mines, as if his sexual potency were returning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Flintwinch,' said his mistress and partner, flashing into a sudden energy that made Affery start, 'why do you goad me?
-- said the old man, conveying a surprising energy into his trembling voice, 'I protest against it!I love you; you know I love you dearly.
-- His eyes became bright, his grey hair rose on his head, markings of purpose on his brow and face which had faded from them for five-and-twenty years, started out again, and there was an energy in his hand that made its action nervous once more.
-- The more he pursued it, and the oftener he glanced at the grey head bending over it, and the shrewd eye kindling with pleasure in it and love of it instrument for probing his heart though it had been made for twelve long years the less he could reconcile it to his younger energy to let it go without one effort more.
-- Mr Sparkler was so discomposed by the energy of this exclamation, accompanied with a flouncing up from the sofa and a flouncing down again, that a minute or two elapsed before he felt himself equal to saying in explanation:'I mean, my dear, that everybody knows you are calculated to shine in society.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when he went away, and her mother was called to devote her skill and energy to Soldiers' Aid Societies, Beth went faithfully on by her-self and did the best she could.
-- The word 'limes' was like fire to powder, his yellow face flushed, and he rapped on his desk with an energy which made Jenny skip to her seat with unusual ra-pidity.
-- Everybody dawdled that morning, and it was noon before the girls found energy enough even to take up their worsted work.
-- Fearing to ask any more advice, she did her best alone, and discovered that something more than energy and good will is necessary to make a cook.
-- Then John took steadily to business, feeling the cares of the head of a family upon his shoulders, and Meg laid by her cam-bric wrappers, put on a big apron, and fell to work, as before said, with more energy than discretion.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg, I was obliged to acquiesce; and accordingly prepared to set about this business with a determined rushing sort of energy and vigor, that should quickly settle that trifling little affair.
-- This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
-- Now, while Macey, the mate, was standing up in his boat's bow, and with all the reckless energy of his tribe was venting his wild exclamations upon the whale, and essaying to get a fair chance for his poised lance, lo!a broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its quick, fanning motion, temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies of the oarsmen.
-- He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his ivory leg had received a half-splintering shock.
-- They went towards the extreme stern, on the ship's lee side, where the deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was now almost dipping into the creamy, sidelong-rushing sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His breast heaved; his attitude was erect; his eye bright and vivid; his whole person changed, as he stood glaring over the cowardly tormentor who now lay crouching at his feet; and defied him with an energy he had never known before.
-- With these words, which were uttered with all the energy of passionate grief, Oliver fell upon his knees at the Jew's feet; and beat his hands together, in perfect desperation.
-- Struck by the energy of her manner, Oliver looked up in her face with great surprise.
-- The lady fell upon her knees, and tried to fold her hands together; but the energy which had supported her so long, fled up to Heaven with her first thanksgiving; and she sank into the friendly arms which were extended to receive her.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She related the subjects of the pictures, the dimen-sions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture, in vain, Mr. Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family preju-dice to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
-- Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply; and at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months sus-pense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father's incredulity, and reconcile him to the match.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot explain, by any possible energy of words, what a strange longing I felt in my soul upon this sight, breaking out sometimes thus: 'Oh that there had been but one or two, nay, or but one soul saved out of this ship, to have escaped to me, that I might but have had one companion, one fellow-creature, to have spoken to me and to have conversed with!'
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