excess是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 超越, 超过; 暴行; a. 额外的, 附加的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our subject was an infant in arms when he lost his father, an officer who died just as he was about to be court-mar-tialled for gambling away the funds of his company, and perhaps also for flogging a subordinate to excess (remem-ber the good old days, gentlemen).
-- This is an excess of ingenuous-ness or of malice you ought to know better than anyone which word best fits the case.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 18 They heard the sound of steps and a man's voice, then a woman's voice and laughter, and immediately thereafter there walked in the expected guests: Sappho Shtoltz, and a young man beaming with excess of health, the so-called Vaska.
-- By gymnastics and careful attention to his health he had brought himself to such a point that in spite of his excess in pleasure he looked as fresh as a big glossy green Dutch cucumber.
-- Levin could not have believed three months before that he could have gone quietly to sleep in the condition in which he was that day, that leading an aimless irrational life, living too beyond his means, after drinking to excess (he could not call what happened at the club anything else), forming inappropriately friendly relations with a man with whom his wife had once been in love, and a still more inappropriate call upon a woman who could only be called a lost woman, after being fascinated by that woman and causing his wife distress-- he could still go quietly to sleep.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I repeat that the Mongolia has been in advance of the time required by the company's regulations, and gained the prize awarded for excess of speed."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hisrepudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess ofits surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs.Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated atabout the level of low water-mark, soothed in her slumbers by theticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred mewhen we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, andwhich was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, andhad always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.
-- That we,the neophytes, might have an excess of light shining upon us all atonce, orders were given to let out Twenty Eight.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma, who was not really at all frightened herself, tran-quillised this excess of apprehension by assurances of Mrs. Goddard's experience and care; but as there must still re-main a degree of uneasiness which she could not wish to reason away, which she would rather feed and assist than not, she added soon afterwards as if quite another sub-ject, 'It is so cold, so very cold and looks and feels so very much like snow, that if it were to any other place or with any other party, I should really try not to go out to-day and dissuade my father from venturing; but as he has made up his mind, and does not seem to feel the cold himself, I do not like to interfere, as I know it would be so great a dis-appointment to Mr. and Mrs. Weston.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.
-- 'But this was a luxury of sensation that could not en-dure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
-- Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sen-sations they weighed on me with a mountain's weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them.
-- How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!I constructed another sail with a part of my dress and eagerly steered my course towards the land.
-- The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too rul loo rul Too rul loo rul--still, in my desire to be wiser, I got this composition by heart with the utmost gravity; nor do I recollect that I questioned its merit, except that I thought (as I still do) the amount of Too rul somewhat in excess of the poetry.
-- I had been doing this, in an excess of attention to his recital.
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：
-- She hated the excess of ver-nacular in his speech.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hump-backed man stared, as if in excess of amazement and indignation; then, twisting himself, dexterously, from the doctor's grasp, growled forth a volley of horrid oaths, and retired into the house.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Phillips was quite awed by such an excess of good breed-ing; but her contemplation of one stranger was soon put to an end by exclamations and inquiries about the other; of whom, however, she could only tell her nieces what they already knew, that Mr. Denny had brought him from Lon-don, and that he was to have a lieutenant's commission in the shire.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished.
-- On the contrary it was a relief to her, to be spared the communication of what would give such affliction to them, and to be saved likewise from hearing that condemnation of Edward, which would probably flow from the excess of their partial affection for herself, and which was more than she felt equal to support.
-- Elinor, who knew that such grief, shocking as it was to witness it, must have its course, watched by her till this excess of suffering had somewhat spent itself, and then turning eagerly to Willoughby's letter, read as follows:Bond Street, January.
-- All her impatience to be at home again now returned; her mother was dearer to her than ever; dearer through the very excess of her mistaken confidence in Willoughby, and she was wildly urgent to be gone.
-- CHAPTER 41Edward, having carried his thanks to Colonel Brandon, proceeded with his happiness to Lucy; and such was the excess of it by the time he reached Bartlett's Buildings, that she was able to assure Mrs. Jennings, who called on her again the next day with her congratulations, that she had never seen him in such spirits before in her life.
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