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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her cheeks had lost a great deal of their healthful fire from the very seriousness of her position; but her eye was bright with the excitement of a triumph though it was a triumph which had rather been contemplated than desired.
-- There burnt upon her face when she met the light of the candles the flush and excitement which were little less than chronic with her now.
-- Thereupon a strange fire lighted up Boldwood's eye, and his face flushed with the suppressed excitement of an unutterable thought.
-- 'Tis your excitement is what makes you look so noticeable to-night."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious life had brought the color to the wan cheeks that were slightly hollowed already; if love had put light into the sad eyes, then Victorine might have ranked among the fairest; but she lacked the two things which create woman a second time--pretty dresses and love-letters.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had sorely missed the excitement of the drills while away, and they counted education well lost if only they couldride and yell and shoot off rifles in the company of their friends.
-- Even if he hasn't actually heard anythingthis afternoon, perhaps he's noticed something, sensed some excitement in the Wilkes family.
-- In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy's ironclad rule that, before going to anyparty, the O'Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at theparty.
-- Of course, Suellen would be certain to telltales tomorrow, but if an went as Scarlett hoped, the excitement of the family over her engagement to Ashley or herelopement would more than overbalance their displeasure.
-- Even the excitement caused by the swooning spell that overtookCharles' plump emotional aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had the quality of a nightmare.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not enjoyed themselves a quarter so much, before the entertainment was brightened with the excitement he furnished.
-- Not that Trabb's boy was of a malignant nature, but that he had too much spare vivacity, and that it was in his constitution to want variety and excitement at anybody's expense.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle walked about the room in a state of excitement almost impossible to describe.
-- I spread it before me on the table, I passed my finger over each letter, I spelled it through; in my excitement I read it out.
-- I had not got over the excitement of the discovery of water.
-- I quivered all over with excitement and hope!
-- The walk and excitement were t oo much for me in my weak state.
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：
-- The gay excitement had gone out of the war...dead.
-- As for sex, the last of the great words, it was just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever.
-- Now the mental excitement had worn itself out and col-lapsed, and she was aware only of the physical aversion.
-- And his 'educating' her roused in her a passion of excitement and response much deeper than any love affair could have done.
-- Her blue eyes blazed with excitement as she turned and ran fast, with a strange charging movement, out of the clearing and down the path, the wet boughs whipping her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he soon perceived that though he might be a little the worse (or better) for ale, the staple of his excitement was not brewed from malt, or distilled from any grain or berry.
-- The excitement of this strange creature was fast communicating itself to Clennam.
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