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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
-- The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
-- Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connexions?
-- I was comforting myself, however, with the thought that in pious Bildad might be found some salvation, spite of his seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay; when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we halted before the house of the Rector, a small and incommodious cabin, neither handsome nor more comfortable than those of his neighbors, I saw a man in the act of shoeing a horse, a hammer in his hand, and a leathern apron tied round his waist.
-- "Ever since we have been at Stapi, my mind has been almost solely occupied with the grave question which has been submitted to me by yourself--for nothing would be unwiser and more inconsistent than to act with imprudence."
-- "To descend into the interior of a cannon," I thought to myself, "when perhaps it is loaded, and will go off at the least shock, is the act of a madman."
-- I could no longer act with prudence or composure.
-- Hans very quietly and significantly opened his mouth once or twice, as if in the act of biting, and in this way made me understand his meaning.
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：
-- 'It's an amusing idea, Charlie,' said Dukes, 'that sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
-- He invited Michae-lis down to Wragby with Act I. Michaelis came: in summer, in a pale-coloured suit and white suede gloves, with mauve orchids for Connie, very lovely, and Act I was a great success.
-- Connie thought it sounded as if even the spring bloomed by act of Parliament.
-- You know AUTO DA FE means act of faith?
-- Ay, well, they'll make their own grand little act of faith.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the insane act of her late husband.
-- She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots.
-- And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.
-- They looked tempting; eight in number, circularly set out on a white plate on a tray covered with a white napkin, flanked by a slice of buttered French roll, and a little compact glass of cool wine and water; but she resisted all persuasions, and sent them down again placing the act to her credit, no doubt, in her Eternal Day-Book.
-- Arthur was in the act of saying the little he could say on such a theme, when a bell began to ring, and footsteps approached the door.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't mean to act any more after this time.
-- 'I don't see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo.
-- Act third was the castle hall, and here Hagar appeared, having come to free the lovers and finish Hugo.
-- Act fourth displayed the despairing Roderigo on the point of stabbing himself because he has been told that Zara has deserted him.
-- Act fifth opened with a stormy scene between Zara and Don Pedro.
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