distress是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 悲痛, 忧伤; 贫苦; 危难，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bob told them of the extraordinary kind-ness of Mr Scrooge's nephew, whom he had scarcely seen but once, and who, meeting him in the street that day, and seeing that he looked a little -' just a little down you know,' said Bob, inquired what had happened to distress him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had evidently been a great distress to him, to have the days of his impris-onment recalled.
-- To this distressful emblem of a great distress that had long been growing worse, and was not at its worst, a woman was kneeling.
-- I distress you; I draw fast to an end.
-- The lady in question, whose rooted conviction that she was more than a match for any foreigner, was not to be shak-en by distress and, danger, appeared with folded arms, and observed in English to The Vengeance, whom her eyes first encountered, 'Well, I am sure, Boldface!I hope YOU are pretty well!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality our own time which, with all its deficiencies, is yet much better than that in which, so much against his inclination, he had lately been.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much.
-- She did not understand either that Alexey Alexandrovitch's peculiar loquacity that day, so exasperating to her, was merely the expression of his inward distress and uneasiness.
-- He gets something from the Academy," she went on briskly, trying to drown the distress that the queer change in Anna Pavlovna's manner to her had aroused in her.
-- In her presence he had no will of his own: without knowing the grounds of her distress, he already felt the same distress unconsciously passing over him.
-- He had expected himself to feel the same distress at the loss of the brother he loved and the same horror in face of death as he had felt then, only in a greater degree.
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：
-- 'Mother, you are quite pale, don't distress yourself, dar-ling,' said Dounia caressing her, then with flashing eyes she added: 'He ought to be happy at seeing you, and you are tor-menting yourself so.'
-- I heard, indeed, that you were in great distress about something.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the thought that I may dieand leave my darling, or that my darling may die and leave me,comes like a spectre, to distress my happiest hours, and is only tobe drowned in-' He did not supply the word; but pacing slowly tothe place where he had sat, and mechanically going through theaction of pouring wine from the empty decanter, set it down andpaced back again.
-- That individualis in legal possession of the premises, under a distress for rent.
-- Among all kindsof people a respect for them in their distress prevailed, which wasfull of gentleness and delicacy.
-- Sordid and selfish as I knew it was, and as I tortured myself byknowing that it was, to let my mind run on my own distress somuch, I was so devoted to Dora that I could not help it.
-- 'No fresh reference,' said I, 'to- I wouldn't distress you, Agnes, butI cannot help asking- to what we spoke of, when we parted last?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Volume IChapter IEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
-- The compliments of his neighbours were over; he was no longer teased by being wished joy of so sorrowful an event; and the wedding-cake, which had been a great distress to him, was all eat up.
-- But no sooner was the distress known to Mr. Elton, than it was removed.
-- 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.
-- I always make a point of reading Jane's letters through to myself first, be-fore I read them aloud to my mother, you know, for fear of there being any thing in them to distress her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, in a restless state between distress at hearing him and a penchant to hear more.
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