activity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 活动； 活力； 能动性；，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 though he was taking a holiday now, that is to say, he was doing no writing, he was so used to intellectual activity that he liked to put into concise and eloquent shape the ideas that occurred to him, and liked to have someone to listen to him.
-- "I imagine," he said, "that no sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self- interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle," he said, repeating the word "philosophical" with determination, as though wishing to show that he had as much right as any one else to talk of philosophy.
-- That force finds a certain form of activity of itself, according to the stage of its development.
-- His ambitious plans had retreated into the background again, and feeling that he had got out of that circle of activity in which everything was definite, he had given himself entirely to his passion, and that passion was binding him more and more closely to her.
-- Levin, in his heart, censured this, and did not as yet understand that she was preparing for that period of activity which was to come for her when she would at once be the wife of her husband and mistress of the house, and would bear, and nurse, and bring up children.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At what temperature is the activity of the Principle at its maximum?
-- Is its activity manifested on agar-solid medium?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudi-narian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though ev-erywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
-- The Eltons were still talking of a vis-it from the Sucklings, and of the use to be made of their barouche-landau; and Jane Fairfax was still at her grand-mother's; and as the return of the Campbells from Ireland was again delayed, and August, instead of Midsummer, fixed for it, she was likely to remain there full two months longer, provided at least she were able to defeat Mrs. Elton's activity in her service, and save herself from being hurried into a delightful situation against her will.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its activity in sucking the moisture from the rich damp sod was almost a process observable by the eye.
-- To curse his miserable lot was at first his impulse, but even that lowest stage of rebellion needed an activity whose absence was necessarily antecedent to the existence of the morbid misery which wrung him.
-- The temporary coma had ceased, and activity had come with the necessity for it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How pleased you would be to re- 67mark the improvement of our Ernest!He is now sixteen and full of activity and spirit.
-- If she is, as you believe, innocent, rely on the justice of our laws, and the activity with which I shall prevent the slightest shadow of partiality.'
-- I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous ge-nius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans of their subsequent degenerating of the decline of that mighty empire, of chiv-alry, Christianity, and kings.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the Leyden house down to Five Points, the street seethed with activity, the activity of an anthill justdestroyed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must need try my activity by 152 Gulliver's Travelsattempting to leap over it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These white vapors, called in the Icelandic language "reykir," come from hot water fountains, and indicate by their violence the volcanic activity of the soil.
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：
-- I agree with you, Socrates gave the critical activity a grand start, but he did more than that,' said Char-lie May, rather magisterially.
-- Look at Michaelis!His life and activity were just insanity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked sharply at the birds himself, as he held the child up at the grate, especially at the little bird, whose activity he seemed to mistrust.
-- Machinery in MotionMr Meagles bestirred himself with such prompt activity in the matter of the negotiation with Daniel Doyce which Clennam had entrusted to him, that he soon brought it into business train, and called on Clennam at nine o'clock one morning to make his report.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
-- A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod.
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