external是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 外面的, 外部的，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：
-- External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always as on the trial evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille 110 A tale of two citiesthrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.
-- A blush on the coun-tenance of Monsieur the Marquis was no impeachment of his high breeding; it was not from within; it was occasioned by an external circumstance beyond his control the set-ting sun.
-- Similarly, during two or three hours of drawl, and the winnowing of many bushels of words, Madame De-farge's frequent expressions of impatience were taken up, with marvellous quickness, at a distance: the more readily, because certain men who had by some wonderful exercise of agility climbed up the external architecture to look in from the windows, knew Madame Defarge well, and acted as a telegraph between her and the crowd outside the build-ing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I cannot in any case agree with Keiss that my whole conception of the external world has been derived from perceptions.
-- When she went upstairs to dress, and looked into the looking-glass, she noticed with joy that it was one of her good days, and that she was in complete possession of all her forces,--she needed this so for what lay before her: she was conscious of external composure and free grace in her movements.
-- And not assisting the harassed young man she was dancing with in the conversation, the thread of which he had lost and could not pick up again, she obeyed with external liveliness the peremptory shouts of Korsunsky starting them all into the grand round, and then into the chaine, and at the same time she kept watch with a growing pang at her heart.
-- Chapter 18 Although all Vronsky's inner life was absorbed in his passion, his external life unalterably and inevitably followed along the old accustomed lines of his social and regimental ties and interests.
-- He had left him, as often happens, only the external faculty of memory, that points out each step one has to take, one after the other.
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：
-- 'Of course, people do get carried away and make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mis-takes are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal external environment.
-- I feel there ought to be more exac-titude, more external definition.
-- If a man is ever so little developed and experienced, he will certainly try to ad-mit all the external facts that can't be avoided, but will seek other explanations of them, will introduce some special, unexpected turn, that will give them another significance and put them in another light.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Believing that the little gallery door alluded to was quite disused, he ascended the external flight of steps at the top of which it stood, and examined it.
-- Her attitude was that of a person who listens, either to the external world of sound, or to the imagined discourse of thought.
-- About half-an-hour later she invigorated herself by an effort, and took her seat and the reins as usual in external appearance much as if nothing had happened.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour: -The sounding cataract 189 Haunted him like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to him An appetite; a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domes-tics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.
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：
-- There was no breaking down his external man.
-- Fashion-able women kept their bodies bright like delicate porcelain, by external attention.
-- There must be some sort of external stimulus of the burning of such fuel, not merely air supply.
-- Still!the human existence is a good deal controlled by the machine of external circumstance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Clennam followed, she said to him, with the same external composure and in the same level voice, but with a smile that is only seen on cruel faces: a very faint smile, lifting the nostril, scarcely touching the lips, and not breaking away gradually, but instantly dismissed when done with:'I hope the wife of your dear friend Mr Gowan, may be happy in the contrast of her extraction to this girl's and mine, and in the high good fortune that awaits her.'
-- Made giddy by the turbulent irruption of this multitude of staring faces into her cell of years, by the confusing sensation of being in the air, and the yet more confusing sensation of being afoot, by the unexpected changes in half-remembered objects, and the want of likeness between the controllable pictures her imagination had often drawn of the life from which she was secluded and the overwhelming rush of the reality, she held her way as if she were environed by distracting thoughts, rather than by external humanity and observation.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My lady,' as her friends called her, sincerely desired to be a genuine lady, and was so at heart, but had yet to learn that money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks.
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