act是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 表演； 举动； 起作用n. 行为， 法令； 一幕，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：
-- You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Par-liament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
-- The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed 48 Sons and Loversa fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not asked the prisoner to take the handy fellow as an act of charity never thought of such a thing.
-- Indeed, except for the mere act of bringing a troublesome creature into this world which does not go far towards the realisation of the name of mother there was no such thing known to the fashion.
-- Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly be-lieved, when they had bowed a customer out, still to keep on bowing in the empty office until they bowed another cus-tomer in.
-- But, an affectionate glance at his wife, so happy and busy, made him resolute not to tell her what impended (he had been half moved to do it, so strange it was to him to act in anything without her quiet aid), and the day passed quickly.
-- He stopped in the act of swinging himself out of his sad-dle, and, resuming it as his safest place, said: 'Emigrant, my friends!Do you not see me here, in France, of my own will?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Andersen's Fairy Tales And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, 'Here are your Majesty's trousers!Here is the scarf!Here is the mantle!The whole suit is as light as a cobweb; one might fancy one has nothing at all on, when dressed in it; that, however, is the great virtue of this delicate cloth.'
-- It would be well for us to beware, that we may not act in a similar manner, for we can never know if we may not, in the course of time, also come into the rag chest, and be made into white paper, and then have our whole life's history printed on it, even the most secret, and be obliged to run about and tell it ourselves, just like this collar.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How is it best to act in this awful position-- that's what you must think of."
-- "Come, what do they say about the new act I have got passed in the council?"
-- With the same complacent smile he told her of the ovations he had received in consequence of the act the had passed.
-- And he will calmly and punctually act in accordance with his words.
-- But Frou-Frou drew up her legs and back in the very act of leaping, like a falling cat, and, clearing the other mare, alighted beyond her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.
-- Phileas Fogg was in the act of finishing the thirty-third rubber of the voyage, and his partner and himself having, by a bold stroke, captured all thirteen of the tricks, concluded this fine campaign with a brilliant victory.
-- The cries of the fakirs were just ceasing; the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp, and it might be possible to slip between them to the temple itself.
-- "And inasmuch," continued the judge, "as it is not proved that the act was not done by the connivance of the master with the servant, and as the master in any case must be held responsible for the acts of his paid servant, I condemn Phileas Fogg to a week's imprisonment and a fine of one hundred and fifty pounds."
-- He was engaged to act in the celebrated Japanese troupe.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She turned to him fully; she had none of Madeline's sense of having to act for the benefit of observers.
-- Ory would remain at home and behave herself--and she certainly would never act like a Bad Woman again, and smoke cigarettes.
-- They would in no way, uh, act as though they were married till he gave permission.
-- Gottlieb opposed it, Sondelius roared about it, Martin worried about it, but Leora went, and--his only act of craftiness as Director of the Institute--Gottlieb made her "Secretary and Technical Assistant to the McGurk Plague and Bacteriophage Commission to the Lesser Antilles," and blandly gave her a salary.
-- They had, they saw, to answer an interesting question: Do the quinine derivatives act by attaching themselves to the bacteria, or by changing the body fluids?
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