exhaustion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 用尽， 详述，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 just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- Sleep, which keeps all sorrow in abeyance, soon weighed down their eyelids; they slept in each other's arms, overcome by exhaustion and prolonged watching.
-- And in what a state of exhaustion and feebleness.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I had taken hold of the door-handle meanwhile, intend-ing to leave the room without reply; but I was panting with my run upstairs, and my exhaustion came to a climax in a violent fit of coughing, so bad that I could hardly stand.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will give him a chariot and a couple of horses, the fleetest that can be found at the ships of the Achaeans, if he will dare this thing; and he will win infinite honour to boot; he must go to the ships and find out whether they are still guarded as heretofore, or whether now that we have beaten them the Achaeans design to fly, and through sheer exhaustion are neglecting to keep their watches.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In an empty hut I feasted on some specked and half-decayed fruit; and then after I had propped some branches and sticks about the opening, and placed myself with my face towards it and my hand upon my revolver, the exhaustion of the last thirty hours claimed its own, and I fell into a light slumber, hop-ing that the flimsy barricade I had erected would cause sufficient noise in its removal to save me from surprise.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face was dreadful-looking from exhaustion and dismay.
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：
-- He sat down on the sofa in exhaustion and was at once shaken by another unbearable fit of shivering.
-- Katerina Ivanovna, pale, almost fainting, and gasping for breath, jumped up from the bed where she had sunk in exhaustion and dart-ed at Amalia Ivanovna.
-- He struggled to the end of his speech in exhaustion and let his head sink.
-- His terrible exhaustion could be seen through his excitement.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By these means Mr Chuckster was pushed and hustled to the office again, in a most inglorious manner, and arrived in a state of great exhaustion and discomfiture.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some time she wept, then became calm, and in a condition of complete exhaustion she waited to be taken away.
-- The village scenes came to his mind--the women, children and old men, whose poverty and exhaustion he had noticed as if for the first time, especially that oldish child which twisted its little calfless legs--and he involuntarily compared them with the city folks.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even inher exhaustion she hated Melanie, hated the tiny mewing voice of her child which, fainter and fainter, pierced thestillness.
-- A swimming nausea compounded of hunger, sleeplessness, exhaustion and stunning blows came on suddenly andshe gripped the carved roses under her hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When at last I dozed, in sheer exhaustion of mind and body, it became a vast shadowy verb which I had to conjugate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood whistling to himself with all imaginable coolness, with his hat still on, and a certain air of exhaustion upon him, in part arising from excessive summer, and in part from excessive gentility.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never felt such misery, fatigue and exhaustion in my life.
-- I turned round on my side, and from sheer exhaustion fell into a heavy sleep disturbed by dreams of water!And I awoke unrefreshed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she sank upon her own bed, and fell into a deep sleep: the sleep of exhaustion and rest, though not of complete release from a pervading consciousness of affliction.
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：
-- He had reached that stage of exhaustion when he could not stop talking.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Therefore, in his ordinary tone, only a little broken by the bodily exhaustion he was temporarily in, he answered him saying that sweeping the deck was not his business, and he would not do it.
-- I know that this would sometimes involve a slight loss of speed in the chase; but long experience in various whalemen of more than one nation has convinced me that in the vast majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so much the speed of the whale as the before described exhaustion of the harpooneer that has caused them.
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