pain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 痛， 痛苦； (pl. ) 努力， 劳苦vt. 使痛苦，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：
-- It always gave me pain to observethat Steerforth treated him with systematic disparagement, andseldom lost an occasion of wounding his feelings, or inducingothers to do so.
-- I do not conceive that this discovery gave me much pain then.
-- How merry little Em'ly made herself about it!With what a demureassumption of being immensely older and wiser than I, the fairylittle woman said I was 'a silly boy'; and then laughed socharmingly that I forgot the pain of being called by thatdisparaging name, in the pleasure of looking at her.
-- The remembrance of that life is fraught with somuch pain to me, with so much mental suffering and want of hope,that I have never had the courage even to examine how long I wasdoomed to lead it.
-- She lifted up her head, and looked darkly round at him for amoment; then laid it down again, and curved her right arm abouther neck, as a woman in a fever, or in an agony of pain from a shot,might twist herself.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.
-- Your meaning must be unequivocal; no doubts or de-murs: and such expressions of gratitude and concern for the pain you are inflicting as propriety requires, will present themselves unbidden to your mind, I am persuaded.
-- It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offence came not.
-- Every part of it brought pain and humiliation, of some sort or other; but, compared with the evil to Har-riet, all was light; and she would gladly have submitted to feel yet more mistaken more in error more disgraced by mis-judgment, than she actually was, could the effects of her blunders have been confined to herself.
-- The youth and cheer-168 Emmafulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensa-tions of softened pain and brighter hope.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, but they possibly did with Oak to-night, for the delight of merely seeing her effaced for the time his perception of the great difference between seeing and possessing.
-- Realities then returned upon him like the pain of a wound received in an excitement which eclipses it, and he, too, then went on.
-- This unwonted abstraction by love of all dignity from a man of whom it had ever seemed the chief component, was, in its distressing incongruity, a pain to her which quenched much of the pleasure she derived from the proof that she was idolized.
-- It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
-- I must bear it; my pain would get no less by paining you."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cook sweeps all the refuse out through a little door into the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, and frequently cleanses the yard with copious supplies of water, under pain of pestilence.
-- "You continue to receive, possibly you fear, those who know the amount of pain that they deliberately inflict; but a clumsy blunderer who has no idea how deeply he wounds is looked upon as a fool who does not know how to make use of his opportunities, and every one despises him."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I writhed under his words yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt.
-- M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condi-tion at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh, blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman.
-- Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on my long absent son?
-- 101 My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by argu-ments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
-- I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt fromhaving stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
-- There were pain and bewilderment in her face, thebewilderment of a pampered child who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the first time,was in contact with the unpleasantness of life.
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