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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now all at once he felt a desire to be with other people.
-- In spite of the mo-mentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he felt immediately his habitual irritable and uneasy aversion for any stranger who approached or attempted to approach him.
-- It began with his expressing through her his desire to make our acquain-tance.
-- He felt a sudden desire to find out what it was that was so strange about the woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The air was so clear and pleasant, and the horse seemed to like theidea of the ride so much himself, as he stood snorting and pawingat the garden-gate, that I had a great desire to go.
-- I don't watch his eye in idleness, but because I am morbidlyattracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, andwhether it will be my turn to suffer, or somebody else's.
-- 103I am not sure whether it was in the pride of having such a friend asSteerforth, or in the desire to explain to him how I came to havesuch a friend as Mr. Peggotty, that I called to him as he was goingaway.
-- I went into theouthouse to look about me; and the very same lobsters, crabs, andcrawfish, possessed by the same desire to pinch the world ingeneral, appeared to be in the same state of conglomeration in thesame old corner.
-- They did just what they liked withme; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, witha certainty I blush to think of, the more especially as, in myjuvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being soconfidential, and felt that I was quite the patron of my tworespectful entertainers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no necessity for any continuance of speech, and the fact that she did add more seemed to proceed from an unconscious desire to show unconcern by making a remark, which is noticeable in the ingenuous when they are acting by stealth.
-- But under your bushel, Joseph!under your bushel with 'ee!A strange desire, neighbours, this desire to hide, and no praise due.
-- The dog, who now thoroughly understood her desire and her incapacity, was frantic in his distress on these occasions; he would tug at her dress and run forward.
-- She suddenly felt a longing desire to speak to some one stronger than herself, and so get strength to sustain her surmised position with dignity and her lurking doubts with stoicism.
-- In her desire to make atonement she took flowers from a vase by the window, and began laying them around the dead girl's head.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer had little desire for lodgers of this sort; they ate too much bread, and she only took them in default of better.
-- But for his observant curiosity, and the skill with which he managed to introduce himself into the salons of Paris, this story would not have been colored by the tones of truth which it certainly owes to him, for they are entirely due to his penetrating sagacity and desire to fathom the mysteries of an appalling condition of things, which was concealed as carefully by the victim as by those who had brought it to pass.
-- Vauquer lay down to rest on the day of M. Goriot's installation, her heart, like a larded partridge, sweltered before the fire of a burning desire to shake off the shroud of Vauquer and rise again as Goriot.
-- Perhaps there are people who know that they have nothing more to look for from those with whom they live; they have shown the emptiness of their hearts to their housemates, and in their secret selves they are conscious that they are severely judged, and that they deserve to be judged severely; but still they feel an unconquerable craving for praises that they do not hear, or they are consumed by a desire to appear to possess, in the eyes of a new audience, the qualities which they have not, hoping to win the admiration or affection of strangers at the risk of forfeiting it again some day.
-- He was proof against her malice, and in desperation she spoke to him and of him slightingly before the other lodgers, who began to amuse themselves at his expense, and so gratified her desire for revenge.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desire the com-pany of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.
-- We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.
-- I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympa-thy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
-- I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate 22 Frankensteinhis fate if it were in my power.
-- There was a show of grati-tude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behav-iour to her.
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