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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only----" With some effort he overcame his shyness, and remembering how people generally act in such a case, he put his arm about Katiousha's waist.
-- "It is always thus; they all act in that way," and he returned to his room.
-- In that condition of insane egotism Nekhludoff thought only of himself--whether he would be condemned, and how far, if his act should be discovered, but never gave a thought to the question, "How does she feel about it, and what will become of her?"
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As for you,' she repeated, catching hold of the little creature in the very act of jumping over a bottle which had just lighted upon the table, 'I'll shake you into a kitten, that I will!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for riding down that black, atrocious miscreant, I regard it as an act of virtue, sir, like stamping on a cockroach.
-- By a "gentleman of fortune" they plainly meant neither more nor less than a common pirate, and the little scene that I had overheard was the last act in the corruption of one of the honest hands perhaps of the last one left aboard.
-- Another had been shot at a loophole in the very act of firing into the house and now lay in agony, the pistol still smoking in his hand.
-- I had scarce time to think scarce time to act and save myself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a private gentleman to keep the secret under such circumstances would be very difficult, and for a State whose every act is persistently watched by powerful rivals, certainly impossible.
-- The reason is that, your identity recognised, I wished to weigh maturely what part to act towards you.
-- "But do they know, at least, how to act circumspectly?
-- But we know now that Captain Nemo does not fly from civilised seas, and in some days I think you can act with security."
-- "Just so," said I; "and a warning to those shareholders would be an act of charity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's the hardest thing in the world to act spontaneously on one's impulses and it's the only really gentlemanly thing to do provided you're fit to do it."
-- But I should like them to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness.
-- "And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her.
-- She was shocked and frightened, but she put that away, thinking of how she should deport herself with Gerald: act her part.
-- That was the real thrill: how she should act her part.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In play, she liked exceedingly to act the little mistress; using her hands freely, and commanding her companions: she did so to me, but I would not bear slapping and ordering; and so I let her know.
-- He told his wife the same story, and she seemed to believe him; but one night, while leaning on his shoulder, in the act of saying she thought she should be able to get up to morrow, a fit of coughing took her a very slight one he raised her in his arms; she put her two hands about his neck, her face changed, and she was dead.
-- In the place where she heard Heathcliff termed a 'vulgar young ruffian,' and 'worse than a brute,' she took care not to act like him; but at home she had small inclination to practise politeness that would only be laughed at, and restrain an unruly nature when it would bring her neither credit nor praise.
-- CHAPTER 9 HE entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act of stowing his son sway in the kitchen cupboard.
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