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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dog, who now thoroughly understood her desire and her incapacity, was frantic in his distress on these occasions; he would tug at her dress and run forward.
-- She said, with some distress in her voice, for she remembered vividly his outburst on the Yalbury Road, and shrank from a repetition of his anger: "I will never marry another man whilst you wish me to be your wife, whatever comes but to say more you have taken me so by surprise ""But let it stand in these simple words that in six years' time you will be my wife?
-- "Promise yourself to me; I deserve it, indeed I do, for I have loved you more than anybody in the world!And if I said hasty words and showed uncalled-for heat of manner towards you, believe me, dear, I did not mean to distress you; I was in agony, Bathsheba, and I did not know what I said.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
-- 'Be happy, my dear Victor,' replied Elizabeth; 'there is, I hope, nothing to distress you; and be assured that if a lively joy is not painted in my face, my heart is content-ed.
-- In this manner many appalling hours passed; several of my dogs died, and I myself was about to sink under the accumulation of distress when I saw your vessel riding at anchor and holding forth to me hopes of succour and life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, borehim with little distress and recovered so quickly that Mammy told her privately it was downright common ladiesshould suffer more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, I too had so often thought it a pity, that, in the singular kind of quarrel with myself which I was always carrying on, I was half inclined to shed tears of vexation and distress when Biddy gave utterance to her sentiment and my own.
-- But, in this separation, I associate you only with the good; and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girl went back to the well not knowing what to do, and at last in her distress she jumped into the water after the spindle.
-- said the wife, 'and I am so full of distress and uneas-iness that my teeth chatter, and I feel as if there were a fire in my veins,' and she tore open her dress; and all the while 235little Marleen sat in the corner and wept, and the plate on her knees was wet with her tears.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this was the only time I was ever guilty of so uncleanly an action; for which I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance, after he has maturely and impartially considered my case, and the distress I was in.
-- Our provisions held out well, our ship was staunch, and our crew all in good health; but we lay in the utmost distress for water.
-- Perhaps many travellers have not been under greater difficulties and distress than I was at this juncture, expecting every moment to see my box dashed to pieces, or at least overset by the first violent blast, or rising wave.
-- Although neither of us understood the other, yet my meaning was easily known, for the people saw the distress I was in.
-- The author in distress for want of meat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time, in bringing any distress upon the lady who is the subject of the present conversation, or in unfortunately compromising her in any way, or in committing myself by any expression of sentiments towards her, not perfectly reconcilable with in fact with the domestic hearth; or in taking any advantage of her father's being a machine, or of her brother's being a whelp, or of her husband's being a bear; I beg to be allowed to assure you that I have had no particularly evil intentions, but have glided on from one step to another with a smoothness so perfectly diabolical, that I had not the slightest idea the catalogue was half so long until I began to turn it over.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It would be a new distress to him even to know that I earn a little money, and that Fanny earns a little money.
-- A slight shade of distress fell upon her, at his so often calling her a child.
-- In the resolution not even to avoid Mr Meagles's house, lest, in the selfish sparing of himself, he should bring any slight distress upon the daughter through making her the cause of an estrangement which he believed the father would regret, there might have been a little merit.
-- Perhaps you have heard that I have suffered the keenest distress of mind from Henry's having taken to a pursuit which well!'
-- 'Don't distress yourself by worrying your mind about it,' he returned, with infinite forbearance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the young woman, 'I have found him!Oh!Oliver!Oliver!Oh you naughty boy, to make me suffer such distress on your account!Come home, dear, come.
-- As he spoke, he drew a chair beside the matron, and tenderly inquired what had happened to distress her.
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