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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquer-ades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.
-- She indeed veiled her grief and strove to act the com-forter to us all.
-- Thus would she assuredly act if her darkened eyes opened and she beheld me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sheinstinctively knew how Coast people would act in any circumstance.
-- "Hum hurrump," said Gerald, clearing his throat in embarrassment at being caught openly in an act of kindness.
-- "I don't think Yankee girls have to act like such fools.
-- "I think Scarlett acted as fast as a girl could act today."
-- She isn't like these other silly little fools who believe everything their mammas tell them and act on it, nomatter how they feel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You see, blacksmith," said the sergeant, who had by this time picked out Joe with his eye, "we have had an accident with these, and I find the lock of one of 'em goes wrong, and the coupling don't act pretty.
-- I had had no intercourse with the world at that time, and I imitated none of its many inhabitants who act in this manner.
-- In the act of dipping forward as if I were going to bathe among the horses, I woke in a fright and took the question up again.
-- Miss Skiffins's composure while she did this was one of the most remarkable sights I have ever seen, and if I could have thought the act consistent with abstraction of mind, I should have deemed that Miss Skiffins performed it mechanically.
-- I cautioned him that I must hear no more of that; that he was not at all likely to obtain a pardon; that he was expatriated for the term of his natural life; and that his presenting himself in this country would be an act of felony, rendering him liable to the extreme penalty of the law.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must act craftily, so as to catch both.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was that day shown to twelve sets of company, and as often forced to act over again the same fopperies, till I was half dead with weariness and vexation; for those who had seen me made such wonderful reports, that the people were ready to break down the doors to come in.
-- He provided a table sixty feet in diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and pallisadoed it round three feet from the edge, and as many high, to pre-vent my falling over.
-- Among these the ladies choose their gallants: but the vexation is, that they act with too much ease and security; for the husband is always so rapt in speculation, that the mistress and lover may proceed to the greatest familiarities before his face, if he be but pro-vided with paper and implements, and without his flapper at his side.
-- When the position of the stone is oblique, the motion of the island is so too: for in this magnet, the forces always act in lines par-allel to its direction.
-- When the stone is put parallel to the plane of the hori-zon, the island stands still; for in that case the extremities of it, being at equal distance from the earth, act with equal force, the one in drawing downwards, the other in pushing upwards, and consequently no motion can ensue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen may be observed to fondle their offspring.
-- They're a very good natur'd people, my people, but they're accuthtomed to be quick in their movementh; and if you don't act upon my advithe, I'm damned if I don't believe they'll pith you out o' winder.'
-- 'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.
-- Strange as it always is to consider any assembly in the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of some complacent person, lord or commoner, whom three-fourths of it could, by no human means, raise out of the slough of inanity to their own intellectual level, it was particularly strange, and it was even particularly affecting, to see this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty in the main no competent observer free from bias could doubt, so agitated by such a leader.
-- While Nickits (as a man came into my office, and told me yesterday), Nickits, who used to act in Latin, in the Westminster School plays, with the chief-justices and nobility of this country applauding him till they were black in the face, is drivelling at this minute drivelling, sir! in a fifth floor, up a narrow dark back street in Antwerp.'
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