apparent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 明显的; 表面上的，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：
-- "Does not the name Patagonia seem apparent even to the least clear-sighted individual?"
-- The Major, on the contrary, only went as quick as was necessary, neither more nor less, climbing without the least apparent exertion.
-- Paganel was particularly attached to him, and so was the Major, with all his apparent coldness.
-- But, though no danger was apparent to the eye, the ear could catch the sound of a murmuring noise beyond the limits of the horizon, like the coming in of the tide.
-- A significant glance from Lady Helena told him, moreover, how affairs stood, and inspired him with affectionate sympathy for the young lovers; but nothing of this was apparent in his manner to John, for his next question was what sort of a voyage he had made.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, it was very soon apparent to anyone coming into the house, that Gania was the tyrant of the family.
-- She was hysterical, and laughed aloud every other minute with no apparent reason the next mo-ment relapsing into gloom and thoughtfulness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, when swimming before his exulting pursuers, with every apparent symptom of alarm, he had several times been known to turn round suddenly, and, bearing down upon them, either stave their boats to splinters, or drive them back in consternation to their ship.
-- Finally, though, as will soon be revealed, its contents partly comprise the most delicate oil; yet, you are now to be apprised of the nature of the substance which so impregnably invests all that apparent effeminacy.
-- Regarding the Sperm Whale's head as a solid oblong, you may, on an inclined plane, sideways divide it into two quoins,* whereof the lower is the bony structure, forming the cranium and jaws, and the upper an unctuous mass wholly free from bones; its broad forward end forming the expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale.
-- The brain is at least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head.
-- He soon came round again, however; and finding that Oliver's replies to his questions, were still as straightforward and consistent, and still delivered with as much apparent sincerity and truth, as they had ever been, he made up his mind to attach full credence to them, from that time forth.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs. Ben-net would have been very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield.
-- His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We worked on; but the water increasing in the hold, it was apparent that the ship would founder; and though the storm began to abate a little, yet it was not possible she could swim till we might run into any port; so the master continued firing guns for help; and a light ship, who had rid it out just ahead of us, ventured a boat out to help us.
-- 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.
-- Thus, fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself, when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about: and what was worse than all this, I had not that relief in this trouble that from the resignation I used to practise I hoped to have.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She, who had seen her week after week so constantly suffering, oppressed by anguish of heart which she had neither courage to speak of, nor fortitude to conceal, now saw with a joy, which no other could equally share, an apparent composure of mind, which, in being the result as she trusted of serious reflection, must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The atmosphere which such personalities would create must be apparent to all.
-- Her apparent nervousness dispelled his own.
-- In the lapse of another half-hour it became apparent to Carrie that it was quite a run to wherever he was taking her, anyhow.
-- There were no misunderstandings, no apparent differences of opinion.
-- There was no apparent slope downward, and distinctly none upward, so far as the casual observer might have seen.
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