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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, don't distress yourself about that," replied Paganel, "Portuguese and Spanish are so much alike that I made a mistake; but this very resemblance will be a great help toward rectifying it.
-- At that very moment, as if to answer the Major, a cry of distress was heard.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do not distress yourself, Aglaya Ivanovitch,' he answered calmly; 'your mother knows that one cannot strike a dying man.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such were the gentle mur-murs of Mrs. Bennet, and they gave way only to the greater distress of Mr. Bingley's continued absence.
-- Do not distress me by the idea.
-- His resentment was in proportion to the distress of his circum-stances and he was doubtless as violent in his abuse of me to others as in his reproaches to myself.
-- What he means to do I am sure I know not; but his excessive distress will not allow him to pursue any measure in the best and safest way, and Colonel Forster is obliged to be at Brighton again to-morrow evening.
-- Elizabeth was now most heartily sorry that she had, from the distress of the moment, been led to make Mr. Dar-cy acquainted with their fears for her sister; for since her marriage would so shortly give the proper termination to the elopement, they might hope to conceal its unfavourable beginning from all those who were not immediately on the spot.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got up out of my cabin and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw: the sea ran mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four minutes; when I could look about, I could see nothing but distress round us; two ships that rode near us, we found, had cut their masts by the board, being deep laden; and our men cried out that a ship which rode about a mile ahead of us was foundered.
-- In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.
-- In this distress the mate of our vessel laid hold of the boat, and with the help of the rest of the men got her slung over the ship's side; and getting all into her, let go, and com-mitted ourselves, being eleven in number, to God's mercy and the wild sea; for though the storm was abated consid-erably, yet the sea ran dreadfully high upon the shore, and might be well called DEN WILD ZEE, as the Dutch call the sea in a storm.
-- Another reflection was of great use to me, and doubtless would be so to any one that should fall into such distress as mine was; and this was, to compare my present condition with what I at first expected it would be; nay, with what it would certainly have been, if the good providence of God had not wonderfully ordered the ship to be cast up nearer to the shore, where I not only could come at her, but could bring what I got out of her to the shore, for my relief and comfort; without which, I had wanted for tools to work, weapons for defence, and gunpowder and shot for getting my food.
-- so much as on my mind, or in my mouth; nor in the greatest distress had I so much as a thought to pray to Him, or so much as to say, 'Lord, have mercy upon me!'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wondered, with little intermission what could be the reason of it; was sure there must be some bad news, and thought over every kind of distress that could have befallen him, with a fixed determination that he should not escape them all.
-- One moment she feared that no serious design had ever been formed on his side; and the next that some unfortunate quarrel had taken place between him and her sister; the distress in which Marianne had quitted the room was such as a serious quarrel could most reasonably account for, though when she considered what Marianne's love for him was, a quarrel seemed almost impossible.
-- Supposing it possible that they are not engaged, what distress would not such an enquiry inflict!At any rate it would be most ungenerous.
-- She still screamed and sobbed lustily, kicked her two brothers for offering to touch her, and all their united soothings were ineffectual till Lady Middleton luckily remembering that in a scene of similar distress last week, some apricot marmalade had been successfully applied for a bruised temple, the same remedy was eagerly proposed for this unfortunate scratch, and a slight intermission of screams in the young lady on hearing it, gave them reason to hope that it would not be rejected. She was carried out of the room therefore in her mother's arms, in quest of this medicine, and as the two boys chose to follow, though earnestly entreated by their mother to stay behind, the four young ladies were left in a quietness which the room had not known for many hours.
-- "I did," said Elinor, with a composure of voice, under which was concealed an emotion and distress beyond any thing she had ever felt before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the limit of her distress had been nearly reached, she was beckoned to by a man at one of the many desks within the near-by railing.
-- She had been dominated by distress and the enthusiastic forces of relief which Drouet represented at an opportune moment when she yielded to him.
-- She did not realise this at first, being affected by some of the old distress which was a result of her earlier adventure into this strenuous and exacting quarter.
-- She shook her head, though for all her distress and his trickery she was beginning to notice what she had always felt--his thoughtfulness.
-- Great attention was given to the details of the storm by the newspapers, which played up the distress of the poor in large type.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ' 'Oh, don't distress me any more'n I'm already dis- tressed.
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