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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But before starting he confided an important missive to a swifter agent than himself, and a few minutes afterward it flashed along the electric wire to London, to appear next day in the Times and Morning Chronicle in the following words: "For information respecting the fate of the three-mast vessel BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, Captain Grant, apply to Lord Glenarvan, Malcolm Castle, Luss, Dumbartonshire, Scotland."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was he the agent of others or had he some sinister design of his own?
-- There's the devilish cunning of it!If he were acting through a human agent we could get some evidence, but if we were to drag this great dog to the light of day it would not help us in putting a rope round the neck of its master.'
-- They lodged, I find, at the Mexborough Private Hotel, in Craven Street, which was actually one of those called upon by my agent in search of evidence.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tomorrow I shall start afresh today I am a free agent for the first time in my life.
-- There is no doubt that he was a perfectly free agent all through, and that as far as Nastasia was concerned, there was no force of any kind brought to bear on him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The operation was successfully completed, and on the 20th of May, twelve days after commencing it, the engineer was the possessor of the agent which later he hoped to use in so many different ways.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While we have no doubt of that, or that a proper use of it would procure the poor lad's immediate pardon and liberation, we have a great doubt whether it would, by itself, enable us to reach Quilp, the chief agent in this villany.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This magnificent irradiation must have been produced by an agent of great SHINING power.
-- What mechanical agent caused its prodigious speed?
-- After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of the cabin.
-- I do not wish to pry into your secrets: but I must confess that this Nautilus, with the motive power which is confined in it, the contrivances which enable it to be worked, the powerful agent which propels it, all excite my curiosity to the highest pitch.
-- This agent is electricity."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No agent would trouble about you for less than that."
-- The agent studied a moment, and then said to himself: "It's funny how anxious these women are to get on the stage."
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