excitement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 刺激， 激动， 兴奋，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- False eyebrows and false moustaches were stuck upon them, and their hideous countenances were all bloody and sweaty, and all awry with howling, and all staring and glaring with beastly excitement and want of sleep.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw in her the signs of that excitement of success she knew so well in herself; she saw that she was intoxicated with the delighted admiration she was exciting.
-- She knew that feeling and knew its signs, and saw them in Anna; saw the quivering, flashing light in her eyes, and the smile of happiness and excitement unconsciously playing on her lips, and the deliberate grace, precision, and lightness of her movements.
-- Dolly knew this trick her sister had of clenching her hands when she was much excited; she knew, too, that in moments of excitement Kitty was capable of forgetting herself and saying a great deal too much, and Dolly would have soothed her, but it was too late.
-- The mare's excitement had infected Vronsky.
-- He was thinking now with pleasure and excitement of the race, of his being anyhow, in time, and now and then the thought of the blissful interview awaiting him that night flashed across his imagination like a flaming light.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed Stuart, who in his excitement made a false deal.
-- The police had great difficulty in keeping back the crowd, and as the hour when Phileas Fogg was due approached, the excitement rose to its highest pitch.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real excitement during Freshman year was the incident of Clif Clawson and the pancreas.
-- Martin had an excitement not free from anxiety.
-- For once she did not greet him with flowery excitement but with a noncommittal "Hello."
-- Martin's excitement cooled.
-- But in the bustle of leaving Zenith, the excitement of the journey to Wheatsylvania, the scramble of his state examinations, the dignity of being a Practicing Physician, he forgot Gottlieb, and on that Dakota prairie radiant in early June, with meadow larks on every fence post, he began his work.
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：
-- He was positively going now for a 'rehearsal' of his project, and at every step his excitement grew more and more violent.
-- He was so weary after a whole month of concentrated wretchedness and gloomy excitement that he longed to rest, if only for a moment, in some other world, whatever it might be; and, in spite of the filthiness of the surroundings, he was glad now to stay in the tavern.
-- Oh, with what happiness I shall press you to my heart!Dounia is all excitement at the joyful thought of see-ing you, she said one day in joke that she would be ready to marry Pyotr Petrovitch for that alone.
-- He did not yet dare to express his joy fully, but he was in a fever of excitement as though a ton-weight had fallen off his heart.
-- Sonia said this as though in despair, wringing her hands in excitement and distress.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps this was an agreeable excitement to the donkey-boys; or perhaps the more sagacious of the donkeys, understandinghow the case stood, delighted with constitutional obstinacy incoming that way.
-- He writhed himself quite off his stool inthe excitement of his feelings, and, being off, began to makearrangements for going home.
-- If any one had told me, then, that all this was a brilliant game,played for the excitement of the moment, for the employment ofhigh spirits, in the thoughtless love of superiority, in a merewasteful careless course of winning what was worthless to him,and next minute thrown away: I say, if any one had told me such alie that night, I wonder in what manner of receiving it myindignation would have found a vent!
-- By this time, however, I knew that his restless nature andbold spirits delighted to find a vent in rough toil and hard weather,as in any other means of excitement that presented itself freshly tohim; so none of his proceedings surprised me.
-- I felt some curiosity and excitement about this lady,especially as Steerforth burst into a fit of laughing when I referredto her, and positively refused to answer any question of which Imade her the subject.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Realities then returned upon him like the pain of a wound received in an excitement which eclipses it, and he, too, then went on.
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