overcome是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 战胜, 克服; (感情等) 压倒, 使受不了，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, ma'am!Heaven bless you and Lord Glenarvan," said the young girl, fervently, overcome with grateful emotion.
-- Quite overcome by his emotion, he took the child in his arms, and straining him convulsively to his heart, pressed his lips on his forehead, while tears he could not restrain streamed down his cheeks.
-- Mary Grant fell back, half-fainting, in Lady Helena's arms, overcome by joyful emotion, and Robert, and Mangles, and Paganel started up and toward the man that Paddy O'Moore had addressed as AYRTON.
-- Overcome as they were with horror and fatigue, they took their last meal together.
-- Sleep, which keeps all sorrow in abeyance, soon weighed down their eyelids; they slept in each other's arms, overcome by exhaustion and prolonged watching.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stapleton turned a ghastly face upon us, but by a supreme effort he had overcome his amazement and his disappoint-ment.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your mother ' The general paused, as though overcome with emotion.
-- He laughed at first, and thought it vulgar of her but now, he is sometimes quite touched and overcome by her kindness.
-- He was overcome by a feeling of inexpressible shame; his boyish sensitiveness was wounded beyond endurance.
-- he said to him-self, overcome with shame and regret.
-- He had tried hundreds of times to overcome the dissolute habits which he had con-tracted of late years.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- None shall overcome me, neither by force nor cun-ning, for I was born and bred in Salamis, and can hold my own in all things.'
-- The Tro-jans had gathered round Ulysses like ravenous mountain jackals round the carcase of some horned stag that has been hit with an arrow the stag has fled at full speed so long as his blood was warm and his strength has lasted, but when the arrow has overcome him, the savage jackals devour him in the shady glades of the forest.
-- He had come from under the sea and taken his place here, for he pitied the Achaeans who were being overcome by the Trojans; and he was furiously angry with Jove.
-- Meanwhile the earth-encircler roused the Achaeans, who were resting in the rear by the ships overcome at once by hard fighting and by grief at seeing that the Trojans had got over the wall in force.
-- 'Shame on you young Argives,' he cried, 'it was on your prowess I relied for the saving of our ships; if you fight not with might and main, this very day will see us overcome by the Trojans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stood overcome by this amazing realisation and then the most horrible questionings came rushing into my mind.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- said Duncan; 'fear has overcome her, and she is helpless.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She resigned herself at first to all the misery of her situation; and happy had it been if she had not lived to overcome those regrets which the remembrance of me occasioned.
-- Marianne, not contented with absolutely refusing to go herself, was very urgent to prevent her sister's going at all; and Mrs. Jennings, though her carriage was always at Elinor's service, so very much disliked Mrs. John Dashwood, that not even her curiosity to see how she looked after the late discovery, nor her strong desire to affront her by taking Edward's part, could overcome her unwillingness to be in her company again.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he had anything to do with the concern, she could not tell, but because he happened to be looking in her direction her weakening heart misgave her and she hurried by, too overcome with shame to enter.
-- She was so overcome she could not speak.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Overcome with shame and grief, they tried to cry and bemoan their fate.
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