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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding all his efforts baffled by the Major's indifference, the mysterious passenger seized his telescope, drew it out to its fullest extent, about four feet, and began gazing at the horizon, standing motionless with his legs wide apart.
-- And with a calm eye, and sure hands and motionless body, he aimed at the bird, now three hundred feet above him in the air.
-- Of course it was the Major who suggested looking for him, and he was not far off, for about fifty paces from the RIO a man of very tall stature was seen standing motionless on the lowest crags at the foot of the mountain.
-- His waiting attitude was full of dignity; indeed, to see him standing grave and motionless on his pedestal of rocks, one might have taken him for a statue of sang-froid.
-- He sat motionless in the saddle, but often turned his head to look at Robert, and ever and anon gave him a shout of encouragement and approval, as he saw how well he rode.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So still and motionless did we seem without any distant point to fix our eyes on that but for the phosphoric light at the wake of the raft I should have fancied that we were still and motionless.
-- Hans remained motionless at the tiller, allowing the raft to rise and fall on the waves.
-- It is quite motionless and presents the appearance of sleep.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet when he had finished, soon over, and lay very very still, receding into silence, and a strange motionless distance, far, farther than the horizon of her awareness, her heart began to weep.
-- Quiet and complacent, Clif-ford sat at the wheel of adventure: in his old black hat and tweed jacket, motionless and cautious.
-- And softly, he laid his hand over her mound of Venus, on the soft brown maiden-hair, and himself-sat still and na-ked on the bed, his face motionless in physical abstraction, almost like the face of Buddha.
-- He gathered her love-ly, heavy posteriors one in each hand and pressed them in towards him in a frenzy, quivering motionless in the rain.
-- She stood in the door of the hut, with a blanket round her, looking into the drenched, motionless silence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A bitter sense of wrong and the thought of Jenny Snow helped her to bear it, and, taking the ignominious place, she fixed her eyes on the stove funnel above what now seemed a sea of faces, and stood there, so motionless and white that the girls found it hard to study with that pathetic figure before them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boat and crew sat motionless on the sea.
-- Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab stood on the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave his orders to the helmsman, cast his eager glance in the direction indicated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of Daggoo.
-- It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning; and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape being made a Mazeppa of, and run away with where the all-seeing sun himself could never pierce you out.
-- At last, gush after gush of clotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees of red wine, shot into the frighted air; and falling back again, ran dripping down his motionless flanks into the sea.
-- As the frantic old man thus spoke and thus trampled with his live and dead feet, a sneering triumph that seemed meant for Ahab, and a fatalistic despair that seemed meant for himself these passed over the mute, motionless Parsee's face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude.
-- But she had resumed her old seat in front of the fire, and sat, perfectly motionless before it.
-- Still, Oliver lay motionless and insensible on the spot where Sikes had left him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you! when learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh!happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"
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