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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold her without look-ing on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.
-- Ay, ay,' continued he, ob-serving my face expressive of suffering, 'M.
-- But I scarcely observed this; rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words expressive of furious detestation and contempt.
-- For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned; I remembered that I was for-ever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow and that she whose resemblance I contemplat-ed would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to you," Joe pursued with a countenance expressive of seeing something very nasty indeed, "if you could have been aware how small and flabby and mean you was, dear me, you'd have formed the most contemptible opinion of yourself!"
-- Certain wintry branches of candles on the high chimney-piece faintly lighted the chamber; or it would be more expressive to say, faintly troubled its darkness.
-- Mr. Camilla interposing, as Mrs. Camilla laid her hand upon her heaving bosom, that lady assumed an unnatural fortitude of manner which I supposed to be expressive of an intention to drop and choke when out of view, and kissing her hand to Miss Havisham, was escorted forth.
-- "Which I meantersay, Pip," Joe now observed in a manner that was at once expressive of forcible argumentation, strict confidence, and great politeness, "as I hup and married your sister, and I were at the time what you might call (if you was anyways inclined) a single man."
-- When I came down again, I found Joe and Orlick sweeping up, without any other traces of discomposure than a slit in one of Orlick's nostrils, which was neither expressive nor ornamental.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the first, who was a dapple gray, observing me to steal off, neighed after me in so expressive a tone, that I fancied myself to understand what he meant; whereupon I turned back, and came near to him to expect his farther commands: but concealing my fear as much as I could, for I began to be in some pain how this adventure might termi-nate; and the reader will easily believe I did not much like my present situation.
-- The word is strongly expressive in their language, but not easily rendered into English; it signifies, 'to retire to his first mother.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here his daughter Josephine a pretty fair-haired girl of eighteen, who had been tied on a horse at two years old, and had made a will at twelve, which she always carried about with her, expressive of her dying desire to be drawn to the grave by the two piebald ponies cried, 'Father, hush!she has come back!'
-- I don't know what this jolly old Jaundiced Jail,' Tom had paused to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the parental roof, and seemed to relieve his mind for a moment by the strong alliteration of this one, 'would be without you.'
-- Bounderby,' he resumed, in a lighter manner, and yet with a show of effort in assuming it, which was even more expressive than the manner he dismissed; 'it is no irrevocable offence in a young fellow of your brother's years, if he is heedless, inconsiderate, and expensive a little dissipated, in the common phrase.
-- That unfortunate lady hereupon essaying to offer testimony, without any voice and with painful gestures expressive of an inflamed throat, became so aggravating and underwent so many facial contortions, that Mr. Bounderby, unable to bear it, seized her by the arm and shook her.
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：
-- But when it comes to expressive or executive functioning, I believe there is a gulf and an absolute one, between the ruling and the serving classes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Baptist answered with that peculiar back-handed shake of the right forefinger which is the most expressive negative in the Italian language.
-- Affery, woman,' said Mr Flintwinch, with a friendly grin on his expressive countenance, 'if you ever have a dream of this sort again, it'll be a sign of your being in want of physic.
-- 'Good she is,' echoed Maggy, transferring the pronoun in a most expressive way from herself to her little mother.
-- His expressive action would be hopelessly lost upon her, and what could he do?
-- And ah!how beaming she looked, and how glad!How she caressed the dog, and how the dog knew her!How expressive that heightened colour in her face, that fluttered manner, her downcast eyes, her irresolute happiness!When had Clennam seen her look like this?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If this expressive article of dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work was going on, in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew, and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor, and cast upon the floor.
-- Down went the highest pair of heels, up rose the smoki-est gentleman, and carefully cherishing his cigar between his fingers, he advanced with a nod and a countenance expressive of nothing but sleep.
-- The pleasant curves about his mouth were the memorials of many friendly words and cheery laughs, his eyes were never cold or hard, and his big hand had a warm, strong grasp that was more expressive than words.
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