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：
-- Lebedeff really had been busy for some little while; but, as usual, his plans had become too complex to suc-ceed, through sheer excess of ardour.
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：
-- The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste; though his sober linea-ments and anxious eye sufficiently betrayed that he had no very strong professional relish for the, as yet, untried and dreaded warfare of the wilderness.
-- It was evident that this excess of caution proceeded from an ex-perience that no subtlety on the part of their enemies could deceive.
-- 'Ha, Le Renard Subtil!Methinks this is an excess of zeal for a friend who was so late an enemy!How many suns have set since Le Renard struck the war-post of the English?'
-- As the Hurons, to every appearance, had abandoned the pursuit, there was no apparent reason for this excess of caution.
-- His eyes opened as if he doubted their truth; and his voice became instantly mute in excess of wonder.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now steel is a combination of iron and coal, which is extracted, either from the liquid ore, by taking from it the excess of coal, or from the iron by adding to it the coal which was wanting.
-- The excess of water furnished by the Red Creek must also escape by so me channel or other.
-- These shistose pyrites being composed principally of coal, flint, alumina, and sulphuret of iron the latter in excess it was necessary to separate the sulphuret of iron, and transform it into sulphate as rapidly as possible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller, who sat on another stool opposite to his friend, stirred the fire in an excess of sympathy, but said nothing.
-- Now,' said Brass, picking up his hat again and replacing the shade over his eye, and actually crouching down, in the excess of his servility, 'what does all this lead to? what should you say it led me to, gentlemen? could you guess at all near the mark?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though his liberality pleased the aunts, they were somewhat perplexed by the excess to which he carried it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think that, in the excess of his joy, the Canadian, if he had not talked so much, would have killed them all.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An excess of appreciation came over his mind, she was the all-desirable, the all-beautiful.
-- The blue eyes of the Professor's daughters were swimming over with laughter-tears, their clear cheeks were flushed crimson with mirth, their father broke out in the most astonishing peals of hilarity, the students bowed their heads on their knees in excess of joy.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.
-- Then personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration: he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.
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