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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked back at the platform when we had left it far be-hind, and saw the tall, austere figure of Holmes standing motionless and gazing after us.
-- There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cut-ting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She used to sit on a stone near, and wait there almost motionless all day, till the herd went home.
-- 'When we left her, Marie used to relapse at once into her old condition, and sit with closed eyes and motionless limbs.
-- Gania was struck motionless with amazement.
-- Gania was motionless with horror.
-- There was another witness, who, though standing at the door motionless and bewildered himself, still managed to remark Gania's death-like pallor, and the dreadful change that had come over his face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was motionless for a moment, and then with a noiseless tread began running through the green confusion.
-- I thought him a fair specimen of the negroid type when I had finished him, and he lay bandaged, bound, and motionless before me.
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：
-- 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.
-- Her breath was, however, expended in vain; for, although dis-tinguished in her nation as a proficient in the art of abuse, she was permitted to work herself into such a fury as actual-ly to foam at the mouth, without causing a muscle to vibrate in the motionless figure of the stranger.
-- Each dusky figure seemed a breathing statue, so motionless was the posture, so intense the attention of the individual.
-- His first measures were very evidently taken to secure his new captive; nor did he even bestow a second glance at the motionless forms in the center of the cavern, until he had completely cut off every hope of retreat through the private outlet he had himself used.
-- The entrance of these fierce-looking beings was unnoticed: some seating themselves in the shad-ows of the place, and others standing like motionless statues, until the whole of the designated band was collected.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shallow of the distant mountain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 7 Gideon Spilett was standing motionless on the shore, his arms crossed, gazing over the sea, the horizon of which was lost towards the east in a thick black cloud which was spreading rapidly towards the zenith.
-- The reporter knelt down beside the motionless body, and placed his ear to the engineer's chest, having first torn open his clothes.
-- The animals, motionless among the blocks of basalt, gazed with an astonished eye, as if they saw human bipeds for the first time.
-- They no longer saw its head or feet, and it was motionless as a rock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, now, the chambers were cold and gloomy, and when she left her own little room to while away the tedious hours, and sat in one of them, she was still and motionless as their inanimate occupants, and had no heart to startle the echoes hoarse from their long silence with her voice.
-- The unfortunate Kit looked at his young mistress harder and harder, and with eyes growing wider and wider, but was perfectly motionless and silent.
-- The nobler beasts confined in dens, stood motionless behind their bars and gazed on fluttering boughs, and sunshine peeping through some little window, with eyes in which old forests gleamed then trod impatiently the track their prisoned feet had worn and stopped and gazed again.
-- There it remained, motionless as she.
-- She lay in the state between sleeping and waking, looking so long at his motionless figure that at length she almost feared he had died as he sat there; and softly rising and drawing close to him, ventured to whisper in his ear.
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