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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too rul loo rul Too rul loo rul--still, in my desire to be wiser, I got this composition by heart with the utmost gravity; nor do I recollect that I questioned its merit, except that I thought (as I still do) the amount of Too rul somewhat in excess of the poetry.
-- She watched his countenance as if she were particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air of humble propitiation in all she did, such as I have seen pervade the bearing of a child towards a hard master.
-- Further, that it is the desire of the present possessor of that property, that he be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,--in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations."
-- In her desire to be matrimonially established, you might suppose her to have passed her short existence in the perpetual contemplation of domestic bliss.
-- I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as a relief, notwithstanding its irreconcilability with my latent desire to keep my eye on the coach-office.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said: 'The cook must know what the food is like.'
-- So greatly did they desire to have one, that the wife prayed for it day and night, but still they remained childless.
-- The father said: 'If it be pos-298 Grimms' Fairy Talessible, your desire shall be fulfilled,' and he caused a search to be made in his whole kingdom, until eleven young maid-ens were found who exactly resembled his daughter in face, figure, and size.
-- If you desire nothing more than that, I can easily keep it in mind.'
-- And as he thus sat, his eyes would keep open no longer, and he felt a desire to sleep.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We began already to con-verse together in some sort; and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire 'that he would please give me my liber-ty;' which I every day repeated on my knees.
-- Upon which I shall desire liberty, with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little.
-- At the same time the emperor had a great desire that I should see the magnificence of his palace; but this I was not able to do till three days after, which I spent in cut-ting down with my knife some of the largest trees in the royal park, about a hundred yards distant from the city.
-- I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suf-fer me to continue no longer.
-- I could not forbear admiring at these odd appearances, both in town and country; and I made bold to desire my conductor, that he would be pleased to explain to me, what could be meant by so many busy heads, hands, and faces, both in the streets and the fields, because I did not discover any good effects they produced; but, on the contrary, I never knew a soil so unhappily cul-tivated, houses so ill contrived and so ruinous, or a people whose countenances and habit expressed so much misery and want.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here his daughter Josephine a pretty fair-haired girl of eighteen, who had been tied on a horse at two years old, and had made a will at twelve, which she always carried about with her, expressive of her dying desire to be drawn to the grave by the two piebald ponies cried, 'Father, hush!she has come back!'
-- Her father gives her such a portentously hard-headed reputation, that I have a burning desire to know.
-- Mr. Bounderby, in his desire to make the most of it, really seemed mortified by being obliged to reply, 'Why, no; not of very much.
-- 'My dear Bounderby,' said James, dismounting, and giving his bridle to his servant, 'I do see it; and am as overcome as you can possibly desire me to be, by the spectacle afforded to my mental view.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett had a sudden treacherous desire to cry out, "But you've been happy, and you and Mother aren't alike,"but she repressed it, fearing that he would box her ears for her impertinence.
-- "I know," answered Gerald, who did not care to disclose that Pork had supplied this valuable bit of information,or that Philippe had departed for the West at the express desire of his family.
-- He didn't know!Her vanity leaped to the aid of her desire to believe, making belief acertainty.
-- It was the sameconflicting emotion that made her desire to appear a delicate and high-bred lady with boys and to be, as well, a hoydenwho was not above a few kisses.
-- Honey's nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted sharply with her father's poise,and Scarlett had the thought that perhaps there was something in what Mrs. Tarleton said, after all.
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