motionless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 不动的，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：
-- On seeing him, the misera-ble creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stoop-ing over the motionless bundle, and moving gently about it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that moment he knew only that Mahotin had down swiftly by, while he stood staggering alone on the muddy, motionless ground, and Frou- Frou lay gasping before him, bending her head back and gazing at him with her exquisite eyes.
-- Kitty blushed with pleasure, and slowly, without speaking, pressed her new friend's hand, which did not respond to her pressure, but lay motionless in her hand.
-- Everything he saw from the carriage window, everything in that cold pure air, in the pale light of the sunset, was as fresh, and gay, and strong as he was himself: the roofs of the houses shining in the rays of the setting sun, the sharp outlines of fences and angles of buildings, the figures of passers-by, the carriages that met him now and then, the motionless green of the trees and grass, the fields with evenly drawn furrows of potatoes, and the slanting shadows that fell from the houses, and trees, and bushes, and even from the rows of potatoes--everything was bright like a pretty landscape just finished and freshly varnished.
-- But as soon as she opened her mouth, a stream of reproach, of senseless jealousy, of all that had been torturing her during that half hour which she had spent sitting motionless at the window, burst from her.
-- Slowly and inquiringly he looked for several seconds at his mother standing motionless before him, then all at once he smiled a blissful smile, and shutting his eyes, rolled not backwards but towards her into her arms.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead.
-- Fix sat motionless on a bench in the station; he might have been thought asleep.
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 was sitting straight and motionless on a chair, with a silent, serious face, with his legs stretched out straight before him heels together and toes turned out.
-- Sonia fell upon her, flung her arms about her, and re-mained motionless with her head pressed to the dead woman's wasted bosom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Peggotty continuing to stand motionless in the middle of the room, and my mother resuming her singing, I fell asleep, though I was not so sound asleep but that I could hear voices, without hearing what they said.
-- With those words he took her up in his arms; and,with the veiled face lying on his bosom, and addressed towards hisown, carried her, motionless and unconscious, down the stairs.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the extreme summit, where the ends of the two converging hedges of which we have spoken were stopped short by meeting the brow of the chalk-pit, he saw the younger dog standing against the sky dark and motionless as Napoleon at St. Helena.
-- The noise was enough to disturb the motionless stranger, who started and assumed a careless position.
-- The young girl remained motionless by the tree, and Gabriel descended into the village of Weatherbury, or Lower Longpuddle as it was sometimes called.
-- Bathsheba, who had been standing motionless as a model all this latter time, flung her hands to her face, and wildly attempted to ponder on the exhibition which had just passed away.
-- WEALTH IN JEOPARDY THE REVELOne night, at the end of August, when Bathsheba's experiences as a married woman were still new, and when the weather was yet dry and sultry, a man stood motionless in the stockyard of Weatherbury Upper Farm, looking at the moon and sky.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
-- Then the appearance of death was distant, although the wish was ever present to my thoughts; and I often sat for hours motionless and speech-less, wishing for some mighty revolution that might bury me and my destroyer in its ruins.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sexton, however, remained standing motionless that the boy might think he was a ghost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this time, as if a spell were on him, he was motionless and powerless, except to watch her.
-- Though he lay quite motionless looking up at the sky, he smiled and said, 'Rachael.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the excellent Professor spoke sentence after sentence, he stood with folded arms, utterly still, motionless to all my uncle's gesticulations.
-- The air seemed to have no effect upon these trees--which in spite of a tolerable breeze remained as still and motionless as if they had been petrified.
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