expressive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 有表现力的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hearts of the passengers beat loud enough perhaps to be heard; but at any rate, the quiet pause was audibly expressive of people out of breath, and holding the breath, and having the pulses quickened by expectation.
-- So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that 55a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.
-- Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused.
-- The disposition of -everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?
-- Expressive sips of what made them poor, were not wanting; the tax for the state, the tax for the church, the tax for the lord, tax local and tax general, were to be paid here and to be paid there, according to sol-emn inscription in the little village, until the wonder was, that there was any village left unswallowed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "This is getting indecorous," whispered one lady, with an expressive glance at Madame Karenina, Vronsky, and her husband.
-- She was talking rapidly, musically, and with exceptionally correct articulation and expressive intonation.
-- Anyone who did not know her and her circle, who had not heard all the utterances of the women expressive of commiseration, indignation, and amazement, that she should show herself in society, and show herself so conspicuously with her lace and her beauty, would have admired the serenity and loveliness of this woman without a suspicion that she was undergoing the sensations of a man in the stocks.
-- On the contrary, when Kitty looked at him in society, as one sometimes looks at those one loves, trying to see him as if he were a stranger, so as to catch the impression he must make on others, she saw with a panic even of jealous fear that he was far indeed from being a pitiable figure, that he was very attractive with his fine breeding, his rather old-fashioned, reserved courtesy with women, his powerful figure, and striking, as she thought, and expressive face.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified, and this was betrayed even in the expression of his very hands and feet; for in men, as well as in animals, the limbs themselves are expressive of the passions.
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：
-- He had a reddish moustache that stood out horizontally on each side of his face, and ex-tremely small features, expressive of nothing much except a certain insolence.
-- And even the curve of his spine was expressive of the hor-rible insult he had received.
-- Exclamations arose on all hands chiefly expressive of wonder, but some were menacing in tone.
-- For a minute he gazed at the delicate expressive face of his betrothed, kissed the portrait and gave it to Dou-nia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was obliged to consider a little before Iunderstood what Mr. Peggotty meant by this figure, expressive of acomplete circle of intelligence.
-- I cannoteven say of what it is expressive to me now, rising again before myolder judgment.
-- But the blots were more expressive to me than the bestcomposition; for they showed me that Peggotty had been crying allover the paper, and what could I have desired more?
-- They are not expressive of affection, they aredifficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape, they are hard tocrack, even in room-doors, and they are oily when cracked; yet Ifeel that they are appropriate to Miss Shepherd.
-- Isubmitted; and, with a countenance as expressive as I was able tomake it of dejected and despairing constancy, came out of theroom.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have lately imagined that I saw symptoms of attach-ment between them certain expressive looks, which I did not believe meant to be public.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, as a formula expressive of surprise, which nobody was supposed for a moment to take literally.
-- Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes, according to Vautrin, who came about this time to live in the Maison Vauquer, Father Goriot was a man who went on 'Change and _dabbled_ (to use the sufficiently expressive language of the Stock Exchange) in stocks and shares after he had ruined himself by heavy speculation.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he said this his countenance became expressive of a calm, settled grief that touched me to the heart.
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