acute是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 厉害的; 敏锐的; (疾病等) 急性的，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：
-- Encamped at a quarter before nine, in good time to touch his threecornered hat to the oldest of men as they passed in to Tellson's, Jerry took up his station on this windy March morning, with young Jerry standing by him, when not en-gaged in making forays through the Bar, to inflict bodily and mental injuries of an acute description on passing boys who were small enough for his amiable purpose.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty admired her more than ever, and more and more acute was her suffering.
-- Whether it was that the children were fickle, or that they had acute senses, and felt that Anna was quite different that day from what she had been when they had taken such a fancy to her, that she was not now interested in them,--but they had abruptly dropped their play with their aunt, and their love for her, and were quite indifferent that she was going away.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very acute angle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light.
-- On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.
-- There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a fore-taste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity 'on a square yard of space.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have my doubts, too, founded on the acute experienceacquired at this period of my life, whether a sound enjoyment ofanimal food can develop itself freely in any human subject who isalways in torment from tight boots.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a great consolation that Mr. Elton should not be really in love with her, or so particularly amiable as to make it shocking to disappoint him that Harriet's nature should not be of that superior sort in which the feelings are most acute and retentive and that there could be no necessity for any body's knowing what had passed except the three principals, and especially for her father's being given a mo-ment's uneasiness about it.
-- I could not excuse a man's having more music than love more ear than eye a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During conversations each subjected his sapling to great varieties of usage bending it round his back, forming an arch of it between his two hands, overweighting it on the ground till it reached nearly a semicircle; or perhaps it was hastily tucked under the arm whilst the sample-bag was pulled forth and a handful of corn poured into the palm, which, after criticism, was flung upon the floor, an issue of events perfectly well known to half-a-dozen acute town-bred fowls which had as usual crept into the building unobserved, and waited the fulfilment of their anticipations with a high-stretched neck and oblique eye.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For an instance there was a silence so acute it seemed that neither of them even breathed.
-- Her boredom was acute and ever present.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was amazed at the continual noise it made, and the motion of the minute-hand, which he could easily discern; for their sight is much more acute than ours: he asked the opinions of his learned men about it, which were various and remote, as the reader may well imagine without my repeating; although indeed I could not very perfectly understand them.
-- They would sometimes alight upon my victuals, and leave their loathsome excrement, or spawn behind, which to me was very visible, though not to the natives of that country, whose large optics were not so acute as mine, in viewing smaller objects.
-- They would often strip me naked from top to toe, and lay me 144 Gulliver's Travelsat full length in their bosoms; wherewith I was much dis-gusted because, to say the truth, a very offensive smell came from their skins; which I do not mention, or intend, to the disadvantage of those excellent ladies, for whom I have all manner of respect; but I conceive that my sense was more acute in proportion to my littleness, and that those illustri-ous persons were no more disagreeable to their lovers, or to each other, than people of the same quality are with us in England.
-- A strange effect of narrow principles and views!that a prince possessed of every quality which procures venera-tion, love, and esteem; of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored by his subjects, should, from a nice, unneces-sary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people!Neither do I say this, with the least intention to detract from the many virtues of that excellent king, whose character, I am sensible, will, on this account, be very much lessened in the opinion of an English reader: but I take this defect among them to have risen from their ignorance, by not having hitherto reduced politics into a science, as the more acute wits of Europe have done.
-- Upon the whole, the behaviour of these animals was so orderly and rational, so acute and judicious, that I at last 284 Gulliver's Travelsconcluded they must needs be magicians, who had thus metamorphosed themselves upon some design, and see-ing a stranger in the way, resolved to divert themselves with him; or, perhaps, were really amazed at the sight of a man so very different in habit, feature, and complexion, from those who might probably live in so remote a climate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They rose from a deep well, long concealed, and her heart was filled with acute pain that found no relief in them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I listened with acute and attentive ears.
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.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance!Oh!the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desparate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections or endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them!
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister's countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.
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