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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At all events the fact was known that he had pre-pared a magnificent present of pearls for Nastasia's birthday, and that he was looking forward to the occasion when he should present his gift with the greatest excitement and im-patience.
-- She was almost like a madwoman, with excitement and ecstasy, whenever I came.
-- He was sober himself, but the excitement of this cha-otic day the strangest day of his life had affected him so that he was in a dazed, wild condition, which almost re-sembled drunkenness.
-- He was in a state of ner-vous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one; and he felt a craving for solitude, to be alone with his thoughts and his emotions, and to give himself up to them passively.
-- After a few more expostulations, the conversation drifted into other channels, but the prince, who had been an atten-tive listener, thought all this excitement about so small a matter very curious.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a curious glow of excitement in his face.
-- But, as I say, I was too full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.
-- In my excitement I fired at their retreating backs as they disappeared among the bushes.
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：
-- In an instant the whole camp was in motion; the meanest soldier arousing from his lair to witness the de-parture of his comrades, and to share in the excitement and incidents of the hour.
-- Although in a state of perfect repose, and apparent-ly disregarding, with characteristic stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him, there was a sullen fierceness min-gled with the quiet of the savage, that was likely to arrest the attention of much more experienced eyes than those which now scanned him, in unconcealed amazement.
-- On reaching the building, which had proved alike the seat of judgment and the place of execution, the young man found that the excitement had already subsided.
-- The excitement produced by the speech gradually subsided.
-- But the children had abandoned their sports for their beds of skins, and the quiet of night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence and excitement of so busy and important an evening.
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：
-- I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous shoals if I could only have change change and the excitement of the unforeseen.
-- It is hazardous to play poker with them, but their ingenuity adds a peculiar excitement to the best game in the world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing that he was in a state of excitement and impatience, I turned to put on an outer coat which I had thrown off on entering the room, purposing to say no more.
-- Sometimes one would look up to smile to another, or to snuff the feeble candle, or to glance at the lightning as it shot through the open window and fluttering curtain, or to listen to some louder peal of thunder than the rest, with a kind of momentary impatience, as if it put him out; but there they sat, with a calm indifference to everything but their cards, perfect philosophers in appearance, and with no greater show of passion or excitement than if they had been made of stone.
-- But they were both up very early for all that, and had small appetites for breakfast and less for dinner, and were in a state of great excitement when Barbara's mother came in, with astonishing accounts of the fineness of the weather out of doors (but with a very large umbrella notwithstanding, for people like Barbara's mother seldom make holiday without one), and when the bell rang for them to go up stairs and receive their quarter's money in gold and silver.
-- Dear, dear, what a place it looked, that Astley's; with all the paint, gilding, and looking-glass; the vague smell of horses suggestive of coming wonders; the curtain that hid such gorgeous mysteries; the clean white sawdust down in the circus; the company coming in and taking their places; the fiddlers looking carelessly up at them while they tuned their instruments, as if they didn't want the play to begin, and knew it all beforehand!What a glow was that, which burst upon them all, when that long, clear, brilliant row of lights came slowly up; and what the feverish excitement when the little bell rang and the music began in good earnest, with strong parts for the drums, and sweet effects for the triangles!Well might Barbara's mother say to Kit's mother that the gallery was the place to see from, and wonder it wasn't much dearer than the boxes; well might Barbara feel doubtful whether to laugh or cry, in her flutter of delight.
-- How every circumstance of her short, eventful life, came thronging into her mind, as they travelled on!Slight incidents, never thought of or remembered until now; faces, seen once and ever since forgotten; words scarcely heeded at the time; scenes, of a year ago and those of yesterday, mixing up and linking themselves together; familiar places shaping themselves out in the darkness from things which, when approached, were, of all others, the most remote and most unlike them; sometimes, a strange confusion in her mind relative to the occasion of her being there, and the place to which she was going, and the people she was with; and imagination suggesting remarks and questions which sounded so plainly in her ears, that she would start, and turn, and be almost tempted to reply; all the fancies and contradictions common in watching and excitement and restless change of place, beset the child.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Come, come; Annette is calling us," he said, seizing Nekhludoff's arm with the same excitement he evinced after the attention shown him by the important person, but this time alarming, and not joyful.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, as I went about my business, I found myself wondering at my intense excitement overnight.
-- In my excitement I fancied that they would receive my invasion of their burrows as a declaration of war.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on.
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