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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, spite of her leak, and spite of all her other perils, the Town-Ho still maintained her mast-heads, and her captain was just as willing to lower for a fish that moment, as on the day his craft first struck the cruising ground; and Radney the mate was quite as ready to change his berth for a boat, and with his bandaged mouth seek to gag in death the vital jaw of the whale.
-- Nevertheless, upon Stubb setting the anchor-watch after his supper was concluded; and when, accordingly, Queequeg and a forecastle seaman came on deck, no small excitement was created among the sharks; for immediately suspending the cutting stages over the side, and lowering three lanterns, so that they cast long gleams of light over the turbid sea, these two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an incessant murdering of the sharks,* by striking the keen steel deep into their skulls, seemingly their only vital part.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not tell whether the weapon had touched any vital part.
-- McNabbs ventured to affirm that no vital part was injured.
-- It was of vital importance that before the decisive moment arrived they should put themselves beyond the reach of the savages, so as to put them off their track.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same thing happened with him that happens with people who appeal to science with direct, simple, vital questions, and not with a view of playing the part of an expounder, writer or teacher in it.
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：
-- To lie down and roll in the sticky, cool young hyacinths, to lie on one's belly and cover one's back with handfuls of fine wet grass, soft as a breath, soft and more delicate and more beautiful than the touch of any woman; and then to sting one's thigh against the living dark bristles of the fir-boughs; and then to feel the light whip of the hazel on one's shoulders, stinging, and then to clasp the silvery birch-trunk against one's breast, its smoothness, its hardness, its vital knots and ridges this was good, this was all very good, very satisfying.
-- But it was historical fact, not vital to him.
-- She who could never suffer, because she never formed vital connections, she who could lose the dearest things of her life and be just the same the next day, the whole memory dropped out, as if deliberately, she whose will was so strangely and easily free, anarchistic, almost nihilistic, who like a soulless bird flits on its own will, without attachment or responsibility beyond the moment, who in her every motion snapped the threads of serious relationship with blithe, free hands, really nihilistic, because never troubled, she must be the object of her father's final passionate solicitude.
-- Their presence was not vital to her, she was withheld, she did not take them in.
-- Either he is not aware of their existence at all, or he dismisses them as merely negligible things which are vital to the other person.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was on the coast of Tehama, for there not only did this display of zoophytes flourish beneath the level of the sea, but they also formed picturesque interlacings which unfolded themselves about sixty feet above the surface, more capricious but less highly coloured than those whose freshness was kept up by the vital power of the waters.
-- "Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat."
-- Vital air came to the lungs!We breathed!we breathed!
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