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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He suffered from acute fever.
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：
-- Their evidence, corroborated by that of several friends, tends to show that Sir Charles's health has for some time been impaired, and points especially to some affection of the heart, manifesting itself in changes of colour, breathlessness, and acute attacks of nervous depression.
-- 'There is a realm in which the most acute and most expe-rienced of detectives is helpless.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It occurred to me that the radiators, if they fell into the hands of some acute well-educated person, would give me away too much, and watching my opportunity, I came into the room and tilted one of the little dynamos off its fellow on which it was standing, and smashed both apparatus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again and again I tried to approach his den and come upon him unaware; but always he was too acute for me, and saw or winded me and got away.
-- Perhaps it is as well that I was saved from launching it; but at the time my misery at my failure was so acute that for some days I simply moped on the beach, and stared at the water and thought of death.
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：
-- 'Consider,' continued Cora, after a pause, during which she seemed to struggle with a pang even more acute than any that her fears had excited, 'that the worst to us can be but death; a tribute that all must pay at the good time of God's appointment.'
-- His vision became more acute as the shades of evening settled on the place; and even after the stars were glimmering above his head, he was able to dis-tinguish the recumbent forms of his companions, as they lay stretched on the grass, and to note the person of Ch-ingachgook, who sat upright and motionless as one of the trees which formed the dark barrier on every side.
-- In these brief pauses, Hey-ward and the sisters listened, with senses rendered doubly acute by the danger, to detect any symptoms which might announce the proximity of their foes.
-- Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration.
-- In his return to the camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in devising means to counteract a watchfulness and suspicion on the part of his enemies, that he knew were, in no degree, inferior to his own.
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：
-- The day was fine and sunny, and I felt in myself a more acute delight in life.
-- To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in further assurance that he's safe and sound, Kit speaks to her again; and then Barbara goes off into another fit of laughter, and then into another fit of crying; and then Barbara's mother and Kit's mother nod to each other and pretend to scold her but only to bring her to herself the faster, bless you! and being experienced matrons, and acute at perceiving the first dawning symptoms of recovery, they comfort Kit with the assurance that 'she'll do now,' and so dismiss him to the place from whence he came.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he too was tortured with shame, and ultimate dislike, and with acute pity for her, because he did not want to meet her eyes, he did not want to receive her flare of recognition.
-- Her voluptuous, acute apprehension of him made the blood faint in her veins, her mind went dim and unconscious.
-- She swooned with acute comprehension and pleasure.
-- He felt that his mind needed acute stimulation, before he could be physically roused.
-- 'And in the great retrogression, the reducing back of the created body of life, we get knowledge, and beyond knowledge, the phosphorescent ecstasy of acute sensation.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much relieved by discerning such dif-ferent feelings.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So altered so faded worn down by acute suffering of every kind!hardly could I believe the melancholy and sickly figure before me, to be the remains of the lovely, blooming, healthful girl, on whom I had once doted.
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