conscious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 清醒的; 察觉到; 故意的，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was crying all thetime, but, except that I was conscious of being cold and dejected, Iam sure I never thought why I cried.
-- A day or two before the burial- I think it was a day or two before,but I am conscious of confusion in my mind about that heavy time,with nothing to mark its progress- she took me into the room.
-- All this time I was so conscious of the waste of any promise I hadgiven, and of my being utterly neglected, that I should have beenperfectly miserable, I have no doubt, but for the old books.
-- The only changes I am conscious of are, firstly,that I had grown more shabby, and secondly, that I was nowrelieved of much of the weight of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber's cares;for some relatives or friends had engaged to help them at theirpresent pass, and they lived more comfortably in the prison thanthey had lived for a long while out of it.
-- Mr. Micawber's affairs, although past their crisis, were very muchinvolved by reason of a certain 'Deed,' of which I used to hear agreat deal, and which I suppose, now, to have been some formercomposition with his creditors, though I was so far from beingclear about it then, that I am conscious of having confounded itwith those demoniacal parchments which are held to have, onceupon a time, obtained to a great extent in Germany.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade. You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.
-- 'Yes, and what you told me on that head, confirmed an idea which I had entertained before. I do not mean to re-flect upon the good intentions of either Mr. Dixon or Miss Fairfax, but I cannot help suspecting either that, after mak-ing his proposals to her friend, he had the misfortune to fall in love with her, or that he became conscious of a lit-tle attachment on her side.
-- What strength, or what constancy of affection he might be subject to, was another point; but at present she could not doubt his having a decidedly warm admiration, a conscious prefer-ence of herself; and this persuasion, joined to all the rest, made her think that she must be a little in love with him, in spite of every previous determination against it.
-- said she, with a conscious look.
-- And now she was very conscious that she ought to have prevented them. She felt that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most insufficient grounds.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What I meant to tell you was only this," she said eagerly, and yet half conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself "that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen, as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way, though possibly I shall be had some day.
-- Bathsheba, without looking within a right angle of him, was conscious of a black sheep among the flock.
-- He was conscious of its presence, even when his back was turned upon it.
-- All this time Bathsheba was conscious of having broken into that dignified stronghold at last.
-- It is not a denial of anything to have been always without it, and what Troy had never enjoyed he did not miss; but, being fully conscious that what sober people missed he enjoyed, his capacity, though really less, seemed greater than theirs.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps there are people who know that they have nothing more to look for from those with whom they live; they have shown the emptiness of their hearts to their housemates, and in their secret selves they are conscious that they are severely judged, and that they deserve to be judged severely; but still they feel an unconquerable craving for praises that they do not hear, or they are consumed by a desire to appear to possess, in the eyes of a new audience, the qualities which they have not, hoping to win the admiration or affection of strangers at the risk of forfeiting it again some day.
-- Eugene de Rastignac had just returned to Paris in a state of mind not unknown to young men who are conscious of unusual powers, and to those whose faculties are so stimulated by a difficult position, that for the time being they rise above the ordinary level.
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt the silence, although I was hardly conscious of its extreme profundity, until my ear was suddenly arrested by the pad-dling of oars near the shore, and a person landed close to my house.
-- I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debil-ity might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
-- In this state I was carried back and placed on a bed, hardly conscious of what had happened; my eyes wandered round the room as if to seek something that I had lost.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Atlanta was humming like a beehive, proudly conscious of its importance to the Confederacy, and work was goingforward night and day toward turning an agricultural section into an industrial one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.
-- We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.
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