critical是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 危急的, 批评的, 苛求的, 关键的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He returned to the wagon, deeply absorbed by the critical position of affairs.
-- But to understand and appreciate the critical position into which these MACQUARIE passengers were thrown, something ought to be known of the history of the struggle which had deluged the island of Ika-na-Mani with blood.
-- Without delay, the fugitives sat down near the palisade, and began one of the many meals with which Providence had supplied them in critical circumstances.
-- At nine o'clock the darkness being very intense, Glenarvan and John Mangles went out to reconnoiter before embarking the whole party on this critical journey.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it is, I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living in the Hall, and I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well now, if I were to describe all this, and I have seen greater events than these, all these critical gentlemen of the press and political parties Oh, no thanks!I'm their very hum-ble servant, but no thanks!'
-- And 'that woman' again!Why did he always feel as though 'that woman' were fated to appear at each critical moment of his life, and tear the thread of his destiny like a bit of rotten string?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a furry silk hat, and the frequent substitution of twine and shoe-laces for buttons, apparent at critical points of his costume, marked a man essentially bachelor.
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：
-- Each moment, however, pressed upon him a conviction of the critical situation in which he had suffered his invalu-able trust to be involved through his own confidence.
-- Duncan now ventured to look at his companions; for, during the most critical moments of their danger, he had been apprehensive that the anxiety of his countenance might communicate some additional alarm to those who were so little able to sustain it.
-- Further words were unnecessary; for Hawkeye, merely uttering the mandate to 'follow,' moved along the route by which they had just entered their present critical and even dangerous situation.
-- No percep-tible emotion could be discovered in the Mohicans during this critical moment, their rigid features expressing neither hope nor alarm; but the scout again turned his head, and, laughing in his own silent manner, he said to Heyward: 'The knaves love to hear the sounds of their pieces; but the eye is not to be found among the Mingoes that can cal-culate a true range in a dancing canoe!You see the dumb devils have taken off a man to charge, and by the smallest measurement that can be allowed, we move three feet to their two!'
-- Breathless with amazement, and heavily oppressed with the critical situation of his friend, Heyward recoiled before the look, trembling lest its meaning might, in some un-known manner, hasten the prisoner's fate.
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：
-- It was strange that his critical sense, so accurate and unconventional when he dealt with the work of others, should be satisfied in himself with what was hackneyed and vulgar beyond belief.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You interrupted us at a critical moment,' said he, pointing to the man whom I had found in company with him; 'this fellow will murder me one of these days.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the critical moment of Oliver's fate.
-- The dog jumped from right to left, and fro m left to right; snapping, growling, and barking; the man thrust and swore, and struck and blasphemed; and the struggle was reaching a most critical point for one or other; when, the door suddenly opening, the dog darted out: leaving Bill Sikes with the poker and the clasp-knife in his hands.
-- CHAPTER XXXI INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION 'Who's that?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowl-edge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashion-able world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mother's consternation was excessive; but it could not surpass the alarm of the Miss Steeles, and every thing was done by all three, in so critical an emergency, which affection could suggest as likely to assuage the agonies of the little sufferer.
-- Why would you be persuaded by my uncle, Sir Robert, against your own judgment, to place Edward under private tuition, at the most critical time of his life?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt the critical character of the period.
-- Hurstwood was more reserved and critical in his manner.
-- She longed to be renowned like others, and read with avidity all the complimentary or critical comments made concerning others high in her profession.
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