emphasis是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 强调， 重点，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：
-- Her father, mother, and sisters came into the room and were much struck with the last words, which they just caught as they entered 'absurdity which of course meant nothing' and still more so with the emphasis with which Aglaya had spoken.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Mrs. Hall took his dinner in to him, he was already so absorbed in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test-tubes, that he did not hear her until she had swept away the bulk of the straw and put the tray on the table, with some little emphasis perhaps, seeing the state that the floor was in.
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：
-- with the peculiar emphasis of his people.
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：
-- The false emphasis with which they try to deck their worthless thoughts blunts their susceptibilities.
-- For in men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes its place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' getting out the name of the obnoxious conventicle with some reluctance, and laying a spiteful emphasis upon the words.
-- Having disposed of this culprit, the bachelor turned to another, and from him to another, and so on through the whole array, laying, for their wholesome restriction within due bounds, the same cutting emphasis on such of their propensities as were dearest to his heart and were unquestionably referrable to his own precept and example.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These poor lads have chosen me cap'n, after your desertion, sir" laying a particular emphasis upon the word "desertion."
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：
-- But it isn't that it isn't that," he cried, with emphasis that flattered her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, to tell me that I am not fit for it after all I have done for it after all I have done for it,' repeated Mr Merdle, with a wild emphasis that made his wife lift up her eyelids, 'after all all! to tell me I have no right to mix with it after all, is a pretty reward.'
-- 'Therefore, madam,' said Mr Dorrit, 'I took the liberty' (he laid an emphasis on the phrase and repeated it, as though he stipulated, with urbane firmness, that he must not be contradicted again), 'I took the liberty of requesting this interview, in order that I might mention the topic to you, and inquire how you would advise me?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He's got enough, though, to make up for all deficiencies of that sort in other chaps," abruptly said the stranger, placing a nervous emphasis upon the word he.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He has just had a basin of beautiful strong broth, sir,' replied Mrs. Bedwin: drawing herself up slightly, and laying strong emphasis on the last word: to intimate that bet ween slops, and broth will compounded, there existed no affinity or connection whatsoever.
-- Placing a strong emphasis on the last word, he suffered his features gradually to resolve themselves into a ghastly grin, and, nodding his head, left the room.
-- asked the Jew, laying the same emphasis on the pronoun as before.
-- --Of shoes, sir,' said Giles, turning upon him, and laying great emphasis on the word; 'seized the loaded pistol that always goes upstairs with the plate-basket; and walked on tiptoes to his room.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I should have been quite disappointed if I had not found you here STILL," said she repeatedly, with a strong emphasis on the word.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would raise his eyes slowly in smiling emphasis of something, and she was fixed by their magnetism.
-- Once he touched her hand for emphasis and she only smiled.
-- "Certainly, you can TALK with me," she replied, laying emphasis on the word.
-- She thought how she should like to tell him--what stress and emphasis she would lend her assertions, how she should drive over this whole affair until satisfaction should be rendered her.
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