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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assure you I have no desire to be controversial.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The earth was enough for me, and no ambitious desire to soar ever entered my mind.
-- Twenty times, a hundred times, I have resisted the fearful desire to drink it.
-- Evening came at last, the hour when the desire for sleep caused our eyelids to be heavy.
-- Dull as it has become, I have no desire to have it broken by any repetition of the perils and adventures of yesterday.
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：
-- The physical desire he did not satisfy in her; he was always come and fin-ished so quickly, then shrinking down on her breast, and recovering somewhat his effrontery while she lay dazed, disappointed, lost.
-- She was thinking of the curious impersonality of his desire for a son.
-- But a woman...' 'A woman wants you to like her and talk to her, and at the same time love her and desire her; and it seems to me the two things are mutually exclusive.'
-- But there it is!I like women and talk to them, and therefore I don't love them and desire them.
-- I like women, but I don't desire them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her sister had a great desire to learn the dancing-master's art, and seemed to have a taste that way.
-- I have felt sincerely interested in her, and have had a great desire to know something more about her.
-- 'I hope,' said Arthur, very doubtful what to say, 'that my respect for your daughter may explain and justify my desire to be presented to you, sir.'
-- A well a it's of no use to disguise the fact you must know, Mr Clennam, that it does sometimes occur that people who come here desire to offer some little Testimonial to the Father of the place.'
-- With Barnacle junior, he signified his desire to confer; and found that young gentleman singeing the calves of his legs at the parental fire, and supporting his spine against the mantel-shelf.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a minute a wild desire to run away possessed her, but that was cowardly, and the girls would laugh at her, so she resolved to stay and get out of the scrape as she could.
-- Jo, with perfect faith in her own powers and a friendly desire to make up the quarrel, imme-diately put a note in the office, inviting Laurie to dinner.
-- The fever flush and the look of pain were gone, and the beloved little face looked so pale and peaceful in its utter repose that Jo felt no desire to weep or to lament.
-- One of her weaknesses was a desire to move in 'our best society', without being quite sure what the best really was.
-- After some delay, the object of her desire was procured, like-wise a bottle of dressing to prevent further loss of time at home, and off she drove again, well pleased with her own forethought.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made no advances whatever; appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances.
-- Nor did I at all object to the hint from Queequeg that perhaps it were best to strike a light, seeing that we were so wide awake; and besides he felt a strong desire to have a few quiet puffs from his Tomahawk.
-- When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
-- Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home.
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