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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me act like a scoundrel, but you mustn't 芒聙娄 one is enough 芒聙娄 and though I am a scoundrel, I wouldn't own such a sister.
-- Dou-nia, I must tell you, made her decision at once, but I still don't feel sure how to act and I 芒聙娄 I've been waiting for your opinion.'
-- 'Act on Avdotya Romanovna's decision,' Razumihin an-swered calmly at once.
-- 'Why, people in perfect health act in the same way too,' observed Dounia, looking uneasily at Zossimov.
-- He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, in-telligence is not enough.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know thatI supposed anything of the kind, but I felt it an act of gallantry tosay something; and a shining sail close to us made such a prettylittle image of itself, at the moment, in her bright eye, that it cameinto my head to say this.
-- Whether it was a criminal act that I hadcommitted?
-- 131CHAPTER XI Become Neglected, and Am Provided ForTHE first act of business Miss Murdstone performed when the dayof solemnity was over, and light was freely admitted into thehouse, was to give Peggotty a month's warning.
-- I said, as an act of politeness.
-- Evenwhen Peggotty was in the act of drinking, he was seized with oneof those approaches, and almost choked her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act rationally.
-- He had all the clearness and quickness of mind which she wanted, and he could sometimes act an ungracious, or say a severe thing.
-- If he would act in this sort of manner, on principle, consistently, regularly, their little minds would bend to his.'
-- He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal, under particular circum-stances, to act up to it.'
-- He is not a gallant man, but he is a very humane one; and this, considering Jane Fairfax's ill-health, would appear a case of humanity to him; and for an act of unostentatious kindness, there is nobody whom I would fix on more than on Mr. Knightley.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir; how hedges and other shapes to leeward then caught the note, lowering it to the tenderest sob; and how the hurrying gust then plunged into the south, to be heard no more.
-- The same fascination that caused him to think it an act which had a deliberate motive prevented him from regarding it as an impertinence.
-- Oak stood somewhat as Eros is represented when in the act of sharpening his arrows: his figure slightly bent, the weight of his body thrown over on the shears, and his head balanced side-ways, with a critical compression of the lips and contraction of the eyelids to crown the attitude.
-- With Bathsheba a hastened act was a rash act; but, as does not always happen, time gained was prudence insured.
-- It was impossible to send this letter till the next day; yet to quell her uneasiness by getting it out of her hands, and so, as it were, setting the act in motion at once, she arose to take it to any one of the women who might be in the kitchen.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she 莽卢卢 8 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 had committed some flagrant act of injustice, the victim would have borne it in silence.
-- The transition was too sudden, and the contrast was so violent that it could not but act as a powerful stimulant; his ambition developed and grew beyond all social bounds.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him the most trifling service, his whole counte-16 Frankensteinnance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
-- This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted.
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