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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is wise counsel, and we will act upon it without loss of time.
-- Besides, if Ayrton consented to join them and act as their guide through the forests of the province of Victoria and right to the eastern coast, they would have a fresh chance of success.
-- The horsemen might act as scouts, but must never be far away from it.
-- This advice seemed good, and Paganel recommended that they should act upon it.
-- He heard Paganel's story and all about the shipwreck, and the audacious fellow determined to act his part immediately.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To act the spy upon a friend was a hateful task.
-- I act entirely from a sense of public duty.
-- But down beneath me in a cleft of the hills there was a circle of the old stone huts, and in the middle of them there was one which retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather.
-- It was a prostrate man face downward upon the ground, the head doubled under him at a horrible angle, the shoulders rounded and the body hunched together as if in the act of throwing a somersault.
-- His first act was to establish himself as near to his ancestral home as he could, and his second was to cultivate a friendship with Sir Charles Baskerville and with the neighbours.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is an affair in which you ought to act honestly with both sides, and give due warning, to avoid compromising others.
-- But at times he would pluck up his courage and be full of hope and good spirits again, acting, in fact, as weak men do act in such cir-cumstances.
-- I assure you once more that very few could find it in them to act as you have acted this day.
-- Shall we ask the prince to act as arbitrator?'
-- Per-haps such an act would horrify her, if she were with you, but it is quite different where I am concerned.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was in the act of stripping huge Periphas, son of Ochesius and bravest of the Aetolians.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Hall, endeavouring to act on instructions, received a sounding kick in the ribs that disposed of him for a moment, and Mr. Wadgers, seeing the decapitated stranger had rolled over and got the upper side of Jaffers, retreated towards the door, knife in hand, and so collided with Mr. Huxter and the Sidderbridge carter coming to the rescue of law and order.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned away from the thickets, keeping to the more open ground, and endeavouring by sudden turns now and then to surprise something in the act of creeping upon me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can act all right.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,,he did act like he was drunk, but it ain't no mat-ter now.
-- 'Well, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth and it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it but I stayed about one night longer than I ought to, and was just in the act of sliding out when I ran across you on the trail this side of town, and you told me they were coming, and begged me to help you to get off.
-- And they didn't act anyway much, as fur as I see.
-- 'Jim, don't act so foolish.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Try to act like a well-behaved child."
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