alert是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 机警的， 警觉的； 机灵的vt. 使…警觉，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One struck, and two, and we had almost for the second time given it up in despair, when in an instant we both sat bolt upright in our chairs, with all our weary senses keenly on the alert once more.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He awoke in an evil temper, and Kemp, alert for every sound, heard his pattering feet rush suddenly across the bedroom overhead.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every dark form in the dimness had its ominous quality, its peculiar suggestion of alert watchfulness.
-- The Hyena-swine avoided me, and I was always on the alert for him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There's one thing I want to say..." began the princess, and from her serious and alert face, Kitty guessed what it would be.
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：
-- Unable longer to foil an enemy so alert and vigilant, he threw his arms about him, and succeed-ed in pinning the limbs of the other to his side, with an iron grasp, but one that was far too exhausting to himself to continue long.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She peered up with the alert impudence of a squirrel.
-- Fortunately our ever alert policeman, Joe Colby, was on the job and helped Dr. Arrowsmith find Mr. Blassner's bungalow on Red River Avenue and this gentleman rose from bed and hastened to supply the doctor with the needed article but unfortunately the child was already too low to be saved but it is by such incidents of pluck and quick thinking as well as knowledge which make the medical profession one of our greatest blessings."
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：
-- Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he were to be very alert in engaging Jane Fairfax now, it might augur some-thing.
-- Mr. Weston, always alert when business was to be done, and as incapable of procrastinating any evil that was inevitable, as of foreseeing any that was doubtful, said, 'It was time to go;' and the young man, though he might and did sigh, could not but agree, to take leave.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passing from the profoundest sleep to the most alert wakefulness with the same ease that had accompanied the reverse operation, he looked at his watch, found that the hour-hand had shifted again, put on his hat, took the lamb in his arms, and carried it into the darkness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Scarlett, alert as a child at the word.
-- But Mammy was under no illusions about her and was constantly alert for breaks in the veneer.
-- Where he had once been lounging and indolent, he was now as alert as a prowling cat, with the tense alertness of onewhose nerves are perpetually drawn as tight as the strings of a violin.
-- His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther tospring and strike.
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：
-- He was looking fixedly into the darkness, very keen and alert and single in himself, instrumental.
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：
-- He seemed alert in the foreground, but the background was like the Midlands atmosphere, haze, smoky mist.
-- And, one day when she came, she found two brown hens sitting alert and fierce in the coops, sitting on pheasants' eggs, and fluffed out so proud and deep in all the heat of the pondering female blood.
-- But still one little trio was pattering about on tiny feet, alert drab mites, under the straw shelter, refusing to be called in by the anxious mother.
-- But even in the photograph his eyes were alert and daunt-less.
-- Because in his strong, thick male legs there was none of the alert sensitiveness and power of tenderness which is the very essence of youth, that which never dies, once it is there.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the time this cautious search is over, a stout iron-bound bucket, precisely like a well-bucket, has been attached to one end of the whip; while the other end, being stretched across the deck, is there held by two or three alert hands.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, I don't," he said, stubbornly, yet nervous and alert for what should come next.
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