agent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 代理人； 代理商； 产生作用的人或事物，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Inference clear as day in this region of suspicion, that Mr. Barsad, still in the pay of the aristocratic English govern-ment, is the spy of Pitt, the treacherous foe of the Republic crouching in its bosom, the English traitor and agent of all mischief so much spoken of and so difficult to find.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix, he thought, could only be an agent of Mr. Fogg's friends at the Reform Club, sent to follow him up, and to ascertain that he really went round the world as had been agreed upon.
-- "Why," responded Fix, a little embarrassed, "I don't know; perhaps ""Ah, if you would only go on with us!An agent of the Peninsular Company, you know, can't stop on the way!You were only going to Bombay, and here you are in China.
-- "Parbleu!An agent of the members of the Reform Club, sent out here to interrupt my master's journey.
-- "I am not, as you think, an agent of the members of the Reform Club ""Bah!"
-- Would it not be better to wait until Mr. Fogg reached London again, and then impart to him that an agent of the metropolitan police had been following him round the world, and have a good laugh over it?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agent roared, "Oh, we know about you, all right, all right!I didn't when I first wrote you, but-- You seem to have a good record as a laboratory man, though I don't see that you've produced anything of the slightest use in medicine.
-- When there was news of a "big game on," the county sports dropped in silently and went to work--the sewing-machine agent from Leopolis, the undertaker from Vanderheide's Grove, the bootlegger from St. Luke, the red fat man from Melody who had no known profession.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am the agent and friend of Mr. Wickfield,sir,' said Traddles, in a composed business-like way.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There had originally been shown by the agent to the estate some distrust of Bathsheba's tenure as James Everdene's successor, on the score of her sex, and her youth, and her beauty; but the peculiar nature of her uncle's will, his own frequent testimony before his death to her cleverness in such a pursuit, and her vigorous marshalling of the numerous flocks and herds which came suddenly into her hands before negotiations were concluded, had won confidence in her powers, and no further objections had been raised.
-- She had latterly been in great doubt as to what the legal effects of her marriage would be upon her position; but no notice had been taken as yet of her change of name, and only one point was clear that in the event of her own or her husband's inability to meet the agent at the forthcoming January rent-day, very little consideration would be shown, and, for that matter, very little would be deserved.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- True,he had called the rent agent "a bastard of an Orangeman," but that, according to Gerald's way of looking at it, did notgive the man any right to insult him by whistling the opening bars of "The Boyne Water."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What I have to do as the confidential agent of another, I do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His experience on the lock gave him such an acute perception of the enormous difficulty of 'tying up' money with any approach to tightness, and contrariwise of the remarkable ease with which it got loose, that through a series of years he regularly propounded this knotty point to every new insolvent agent and other professional gentleman who passed in and out.
-- Yet there were two or three small airless houses at the entrance end of Mews Street, which went at enormous rents on account of their being abject hangers-on to a fashionable situation; and whenever one of these fearful little coops was to be let (which seldom happened, for they were in great request), the house agent advertised it as a gentlemanly residence in the most aristocratic part of town, inhabited solely by the elite of the beau monde.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality.
-- But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind.
-- For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the scheming, unappeasedly steadfast hunter of the white whale; this Ahab that had gone to his hammock, was not the agent that so caused him to burst from it in horror again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XV SHOWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE In the obscure parlour of a low public-house, in the filthiest part of Little Saffron Hill; a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring gas-light burnt all day in the winter-time; and where no ray of sun ever shone in the summer: there sat, brooding over a little pewter measure and a small glass, strongly impregnated with the smell of liquor, a man in a velveteen coat, drab shorts, half-boots and stockings, whom even by that dim light no experienced agent of the police would have hesitated to recognise as Mr. William Sikes.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had I continued in the station I was now in, I had room for all the happy things to have yet be-fallen me for which my father so earnestly recommended a quiet, retired life, and of which he had so sensibly described the middle station of life to be full of; but other things at-tended me, and I was still to be the wilful agent of all my own miseries; and particularly, to increase my fault, and double the reflections upon myself, which in my future sor-rows I should have leisure to make, all these miscarriages were procured by my apparent obstinate adhering to my foolish inclination of wandering abroad, and pursuing that inclination, in contradiction to the clearest views of doing myself good in a fair and plain pursuit of those prospects, and those measures of life, which nature and Providence concurred to present me with, and to make my duty.
-- Indeed, after serious thinking of these things, I would be melancholy, and sometimes it would last a great while; but I resolved it all at last into thankfulness to that Providence which had delivered me from so many unseen dangers, and had kept me from those mischiefs which I could have no way been the agent in delivering myself from, because I had not the least notion of any such thing depending, or the least supposition of its being possible.
-- That such hints and notices are given us I believe few that have made any observation of things can deny; that they are certain discoveries of an invisible world, and a converse of spirits, we cannot doubt; and if the tendency of them seems to be to warn us of dan-ger, why should we not suppose they are from some friendly agent (whether supreme, or inferior and subordinate, is not the question), and that they are given for our good?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He decided to pay $9,500 to the agent whom they said they would send, keeping $1,300 for his own use.
-- The agent saw he was dealing with an inexperienced soul, and continued accordingly.
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