desire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 愿望， 欲望， 要求，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had just enough recollection of the face to desire to do that.
-- Perhaps, Scrooge could not have told anybody why, if anybody could have asked him; but he had a special desire to see the Spirit in his cap; and begged him to be covered.
-- Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life for evermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room, as you would desire to see upon a winter's night.
-- 'Spirit,' said Scrooge, after a moment's thought,' I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She curtseyed to him (young ladies made curtseys in those days), with a pretty desire to convey to him that she felt how much older and wiser he was than she.
-- 'As to me, the greatest desire I have, is to forget that I belong to it.
-- Brief as such companionship was in every separate instance, Mr. Cruncher never failed to become so interested in the lady as to express a strong desire to have the honour 218 A tale of two citiesof drinking her very good health.
-- But, his long-cherished desire to know more about these matters, not only stopped him in his running away, but lured him back again.
-- (There was a time in my imprisonment, when my desire for vengeance was un-bearable.)
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am in the most brilliant circumstanc-es, but there came a sort of desire over me to see you once more before you die; you will die, I suppose?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a struggle in his heart between the desire to forget his unhappy brother for the time, and the consciousness that it would be base to do so.
-- This stiffness hurt Kitty, and she could not resist the desire to smooth over her mother's coldness.
-- said Stepan Arkadyevitch, "there's nothing I desire so much as that--nothing!It would be the best thing that could be."
-- She was fond of Kitty, and her affection for her showed itself, as the affection of married women for girls always does, in the desire to make a match for Kitty after her own ideal of married happiness; she wanted her to marry Vronsky.
-- There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, having seen the Parsee carnival wind away in the distance, he was turning his steps towards the station, when he happened to espy the splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill, and was seized with an irresistible desire to see its interior.
-- Phileas Fogg noted this gain in his journal, and then, accompanied by Aouda, who betrayed a desire for a walk on shore, disembarked.
-- Passepartout even felt a strong desire to grasp his ally, Fix, by the hand.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not certain that, in attaching himself to Doc Vickerson, Martin was entirely and edifyingly controlled by a desire to become a Great Healer.
-- But as I have no desire to indulge in fancy flights of rhetoric and eloquence, I shall merely say that you will accept, and you will study, and you will memorize, because I tell you to!"
-- In fury at her badgering, in desire for her lips and forgiving smile, he was whirled through to the end of the term.
-- When he arrived at the Armory, with Leora timorously brave in a blue crepe de chine made in no recognized style, he did not care whether he had a single two-step, though he did achingly desire to have the men crowd in and ask Leora, admire her and make her welcome.
-- Ex-farmhand, ex-book- agent, ex-mechanic, he had so little money yet so scratching a desire to be resplendent that he took refuge in pride in poverty, pride in being offensive.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had given up attending to matters of practi-cal importance; he had lost all desire to do so.
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