meditation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 熟虑； (尤指宗教的) 默想， 沉思； (pl. ) 冥想录，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：
-- The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His meditation became profound.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The words of Uncas were received with the same deep attention as those which fell from the maturer wisdom of his father; and so far from manifesting any impatience, neither spoke in reply, until a few moments of silent meditation were, seem-ingly, bestowed in deliberating on what had already been said.
-- He would greatly have preferred silence and meditation to speech, when a discovery of his real condition might prove so instantly fatal.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By a connection not evident to him he remembered that the Sunday before, in the slummy chapel where he preached during his medical course, he had exalted the sacrifice of the martyrs and they had sung of the blood of the lamb, the fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, but this meditation he lost, and he lumbered toward Digamma Pi in a fog of pondering pity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his meditation Nekhludoff did not notice how the weather had changed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child, sitting down with the old man close behind it, had been thinking how strange it was that horses who were such fine honest creatures should seem to make vagabonds of all the men they drew about them, when a loud laugh at some extemporaneous witticism of Mr Short's, having allusion to the circumstances of the day, roused her from her meditation and caused her to look around.
-- While he was plunged in very profound and serious meditation upon this theme, Miss Sally sat shaking her head with an air of great mystery and doubt; when the voice of her brother Sampson, carolling a cheerful strain, was heard in the passage, and that gentleman himself, beaming with virtuous smiles, appeared.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A meditation on the obvious inference was indulged in by all, and during its continuance each directed his vision into the ashpit, which glowed like a desert in the tropics under a vertical sun, shaping their eyes long and liny, partly because of the light, partly from the depth of the subject discussed.
-- Silent and alone, he had remained in moody meditation on woman's ways, deeming as essentials of the whole sex the accidents of the single one of their number he had ever closely beheld.
-- He was disturbed in his meditation by a grating noise from the coach-house.
-- She looked back upon that past over a great gulf, as if she were now a dead person, having the faculty of meditation still left in her, by means of which, like the mouldering gentlefolk of the poet's story, she could sit and ponder what a gift life used to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was falling into meditation on my guardian's greatness, when Wemmick remarked:--"As to the absence of plate, that's only his natural depth, you know.
-- But I told him, after a little meditation over the fire, that I would like to ask him a question, subject to his answering or not answering, as he deemed right, and sure that his course would be right.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, having studied for an interval, with a fist on either knee, and a cloud of meditation over her ruddy countenance, she ejaculated 'Ah, times are greatly changed since then!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Evening meditation and morning work somewhat al-layed her fears, and having decided that she wouldn't be vain enough to think people were going to propose when she had given them every reason to know what her answer would be, she set forth at the appointed time, hoping Teddy wouldn't do anything to make her hurt his poor feelings.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
-- Not only that, but the subtle insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background (for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long night watches, his officers and men must have some nearer things to think of than Moby Dick.
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