vital是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 生命的; 必需的; 极其重要的，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《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something --not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to care only for that one.
-- "It is a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be put into words.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Brumfit rattled: "I'm sufficiently liberal, I should assume, toward the claims of science, but with a man like Gottlieb--I'm prepared to believe that he knows all about material forces, but what astounds me is that such a man can be blind to the vital force that creates all others.
-- Well, anyway, I'll start a decent system of vital statistics in the department before they get me.
-- Also he gave thought to the killing of rats and fleas, and he regarded the vital statistics as something more than a recording of births and deaths.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what they want though it smells of death and can be made of India-rubber, at least is not alive, has no will, is servile and won't revolt!And it comes in the end to their re-ducing everything to the building of walls and the planning of rooms and passages in a phalanstery!The phalanstery is ready, indeed, but your human nature is not ready for the phalanstery it wants life, it hasn't completed its vital process, it's too soon for the graveyard!You can't skip over nature by logic.
-- They exchanged a few words and made no reference to the vital subject, as though they were tacitly agreed not to speak of it for a time.
-- Another, much more important anxiety tormented him it concerned himself, but in a different, more vital way.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
-- To an outsider there was not much to complain of in this remark; but to Oak, who knew Bathsheba to be well aware that she herself was the cause of the poor ewe's wound, because she had wounded the ewe's shearer in a still more vital part, it had a sting which the abiding sense of his inferiority to both herself and Boldwood was not calculated to heal.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something vital and earthy and coarse about him that appealed to her.
-- There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractivethan any masquerade she might adopt.
-- Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all thecolor from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiringenergy.
-- The same railroads which had made thetown the crossroads of commerce in time of peace were now of vital strategic importance in time of war.
-- The other women were simply silly and hysterical with their talk of patriotism and the Cause, and the men werealmost as bad with their talk of vital issues and States' Rights.
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：
-- Vaguely she knew she was out of connexion: she had lost touch with the substantial and vital world.
-- That's what sex is to you...a vital little dynamo between you and Julia, to bring suc-cess.
-- He never held forth; his ideas were really not vital enough for it, he was too confused and emotional.
-- And habit, to my thinking, is more vital than any occasional excitement.
-- They seemed a very power of si-lence, and yet a vital presence.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
-- But there were still other and more vital practical influences at work.
-- That it was only then, on the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium, that his mates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock.
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