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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had to act with the utmost circumspection to save my-self from the suspicion of insanity.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held on savagely, and stuck out his feet to act as brakes on the dark slope of the hot, moist earth.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She smiled, as if in pity at her own momentary forgetfulness, discovering by the act a row of teeth that would have shamed the purest ivory; when, replacing the veil, she bowed her face, and rode in silence, like one whose thoughts were abstracted from the scene around her.
-- Once sure of that, and where women are con-cerned it is not easy, the next is, to act up to the decision.
-- It was an unthoughtful act in a man who has so often slept with the war-whoop ringing in the air, to let off his piece within sound of an ambushment!But then it was a natural temp-tation!
-- Yielding to his powerful interest in the subject, and impatient of a delay that seemed fraught with so much additional danger, Heyward drew still nigher to the dusky group, with an intention of making his offers of compensa-tion more definite, when the white man, motioning with his hand, as if he conceded the disputed point, turned away, saying in a sort of soliloquy, and in the English tongue: 'Uncas is right!it would not be the act of men to leave such harmless things to their fate, even though it breaks up the harboring place forever.
-- Uncas raised the blanket for their passage, and as the sisters turned to thank him for this act of attention, they saw the scout seated again before the dying embers, with his face resting on his hands, in a manner which showed how deeply he brooded on the unac-countable interruption which had broken up their evening devotions.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apparently there had been some appalling act of justice recently inflicted, for his scholars were all busily intent upon their books, or slyly whispering behind them with one eye kept upon the master; and a kind of buzzing stillness reigned throughout the schoolroom.
-- Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups, and in the very act of hurling his head at him.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours.
-- Everyone doesn't want to act like me.
-- "You evidently don't believe in the maxim: Act so that every one of your actions is capable of being made into a universal rule."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was one of those engineers who began by handling the hammer and pickaxe, like generals who first act as common soldiers.
-- When be was captured, he was in the act of making a description and sketch of the battle.
-- It was to be feared that he had met with an accident on this unknown land, or that the unhappy fellow had been driven to some act of despair.
-- "To-morrow," he repeated, "we shall know what we have to depend upon, and we will act accordingly."
-- "I think that we should act with caution," said the reporter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You needn't act the chairman here,' said his friend, half aside.
-- And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader, I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course, and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves.
-- 'I tell you,' returned the other with an increased earnestness, which, whether it were real or assumed, had the same effect on his companion, 'that he lives for her, that his whole energies and thoughts are bound up in her, that he would no more disinherit her for an act of disobedience than he would take me into his favour again for any act of obedience or virtue that I could possibly be guilty of.
-- The negotiation was concluded very pleasantly, and Mr Swiveller was in the act of stating in flowery terms that he had no insurmountable objection to marrying anybody plentifully endowed with money or moveables, who could be induced to take him, when he was interrupted in his observations by a knock at the door, and the consequent necessity of crying 'Come in.'
-- Having made up his mind on this important point, he circulated the glass (from his right hand to left, and back again) pretty freely, to enable him to act his part with the greater discretion, and then, after making some slight improvements in his toilet, bent his steps towards the spot hallowed by the fair object of his meditations.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- New York Street & Smith, Publishers 238 William Street Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1900 By Street & Smith In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C. "Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
-- Similarly, when Nekhludoff, on reaching his majority, distributed the estate he inherited from his father among the peasants, because he considered the ownership of land unjust, this act of his horrified his mother and relatives, who constantly reproached and ridiculed him for it.
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