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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that I was free from the spectacle of Mrs. Strickland's distress I could consider the matter more calmly.
-- "Haven't you been in bitter distress once when a helping hand was held out to you?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One fact stood out certain and clear, and that was that poor Aglaya must be in a state of great distress and indecision and mental tor-ment ("from jealousy,' the prince whispered to himself).
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are in great distress of mind, and don't mean what you say.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet her distress when I left her was very great, her expostulations at the parting were sometimes frantic, and I think, altogether, I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion.
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：
-- There was something so commanding in the distress of the old man, that Heyward did not dare to venture a syl-lable of consolation.
-- Willing to divert a distress which threatened each moment to break through the restraint of appearances, by giving the veteran some-thing to do, the young man said to the scout: 'As we now possess these infallible signs, let us com-mence our march.
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