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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While their fate was being decided, they sat motionless behind the grating in front of the soldiers.
-- The chanter's daughter sat motionless on her cot, and with dull, half-open eyes was looking into space.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction.
-- Slower and slower went the circling hands until the thousands one seemed motionless and the daily one was no longer a mere mist upon its scale.
-- I fancied I saw some black object flopping about upon this bank, but it became motionless as I looked at it, and I judged that my eye had been deceived, and that the black object was merely a rock.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just before him Tom lay motionless upon the sward; but the murderer minded him not a whit, cleansing his blood-stained knife the while upon a wisp of grass.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment, leaning on the forecastle bulwark, I saw below me Ned Land grappling the martingale in one hand, brandishing his terrible harpoon in the other, scarcely twenty feet from the motionless animal.
-- Whilst taking observations not a muscle moved, the instrument could not have been more motionless in a hand of marble.
-- Motionless yet, when bent to one side by the hand, they directly resumed their former position.
-- The Astrolabe and the Zelee, incessantly tossed about by the hurricane, could not be worth the Nautilus, quiet repository of labour that she is, truly motionless in the midst of the waters.
-- Her electric apparatus remained inactive and her motionless screw left her to drift at the mercy of the currents.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she stood motionless gazing over the water at the face which washed up and down on the flood, as he swam steadily.
-- He, closed within the spell, remained motionless and unconscious.
-- She hung motionless for some seconds, then she sat down again.
-- He sat slack and motionless in the boat, his head blunt and blind like a seal's, his whole appearance inhuman, unknowing.
-- She saw him, how he was motionless and ageless, like some crouching idol, some image of a deathly religion.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked at me, leaning back in her chair, and remained motionless and mute.
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