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：
-- demanded Duncan, losing the first feeling of disappointment in a more manly desire for exer-tion; 'what will become of us?'
-- demanded the Huron, observing that Heyward hesitated in his desire to end the enumeration of benefits with that which might form the climax of an Indian's wish-es.
-- And by the time he reached the part where he so artfully blended the thirst of vengeance with the desire of gain, he had, at least, obtained a command of the deep-est attention of the savage.
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：
-- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
-- Everyone talked a little louder than natural in an instinctive desire to make the party go, and there was a great deal of noise in the room.
-- In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously.
-- But the desire for approbation is perhaps the most deeply seated instinct of civilised man.
-- Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They therefore waited with some impatience, when an incident occurred which increased the desire the settlers had to visit the whole of their domain.
-- "I must acknowledge one thing," said Herbert, "it is that Captain Harding appears rather to fear than desire the presence of human beings on our island."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To relate how it was a long time before his modesty could be so far prevailed upon as it admit of his sitting down in the parlour, in the presence of an unknown gentleman how, when he did set down, he tucked up his sleeves and squared his elbows and put his face close to the copy-book and squinted horribly at the lines how, from the very first moment of having the pen in his hand, he began to wallow in blots, and to daub himself with ink up to the very roots of his hair how, if he did by accident form a letter properly, he immediately smeared it out again with his arm in his preparations to make another how, at every fresh mistake, there was a fresh burst of merriment from the child and louder and not less hearty laugh from poor Kit himself and how there was all the way through, notwithstanding, a gentle wish on her part to teach, and an anxious desire on his to learn to relate all these particulars would no doubt occupy more space and time than they deserve.
-- Nor did the striking of the clocks, hour after hour, appear to inspire him with any sense of drowsiness or any natural desire to go to rest, but rather to increase his wakefulness, which he showed, at every such indication of the progress of the night, by a suppressed cackling in his throat, and a motion of his shoulders, like one who laughs heartily but the same time slyly and by stealth.
-- 'I am much obliged to you,' returned the old woman, testifying by a certain restlessness in her hands a vehement desire to shake her matronly fist at her son-in-law.
-- Such an application from any other hand might not have produced a remarkable effect, but the child shrank so quickly from his touch and felt such an instinctive desire to get out of his reach, that she rose directly and declared herself ready to return.
-- CHAPTER 14As it was very easy for Kit to persuade himself that the old house was in his way, his way being anywhere, he tried to look upon his passing it once more as a matter of imperative and disagreeable necessity, quite apart from any desire of his own, to which he could not choose but yield.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, there was no necessity of abandoning these habits, since he had lost the strength of conviction as well as the resolution, the vanity and the desire to astonish people that he had possessed in his youth.
-- Not only did he not desire to possess her physically, but the very thought of such relation horrified him.
-- He also intended to explain to them that if they gave an affirmative answer to a question, they would thereby affirm everything involved in the question, and that if they did not desire to affirm everything involved in the question, they must distinguish the part they affirmed from the part they disaffirmed.
-- All her thoughts were now centered on her desire to inhale the smoke of a cigarette.
-- So strong was this desire that she greedily inhaled the smoke-laden air which was wafted in from the corridor and through the cabinet door.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The freshness of the morning made me desire an equal freshness.
-- I bit myself and screamed in a passionate desire to awake.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My man," said Captain Smollett, "I have not the slightest desire to talk to you.
-- I should, I think, have had nothing left me to desire but for the eyes of the coxswain as they followed me derisively about the deck and the odd smile that appeared continually on his face.
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