increasing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 不断增长的，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 saw that his perplexity was increasing as the way became more difficult, but did not dare to interrogate him, rightly enough, perhaps, thinking that both mules and muleteers were very much governed by instinct, and it was best to trust to them.
-- With superhuman courage, the ascent was then resumed amid increasing dangers and difficulties.
-- The dark speck was increasing visibly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meantime his ship was still increasing the distance between.
-- But a sudden stop was put to further discoveries, by the ship's being unprecedentedly dragged over sideways to the sea, owing to the body's immensely increasing tendency to sink.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The idea soon reached to conviction, as she observed his increasing ci-vilities toward herself, and heard his frequent attempt at a compliment on her wit and vivacity; and though more as-tonished than gratified herself by this effect of her charms, it was not long before her mother gave her to understand that the probability of their marriage was extremely agreeable to HER.
-- Mr. Collins, however, was not discouraged from speaking again, and Mr. Darcy's contempt seemed abundantly increasing with the length of his second speech, and at the end of it he only made him a slight bow, and moved another way.
-- As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.'
-- Her many attrac-tions were again dwelt on, and Caroline boasted joyfully of their increasing intimacy, and ventured to predict the ac-complishment of the wishes which had been unfolded in her former letter.
-- Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and she listened with increasing astonish-ment as the housekeeper added, 'I have never known a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We worked on; but the water increasing in the hold, it was apparent that the ship would founder; and though the storm began to abate a little, yet it was not possible she could swim till we might run into any port; so the master continued firing guns for help; and a light ship, who had rid it out just ahead of us, ventured a boat out to help us.
-- I went on the next year with great success in my plantation: I raised fifty great rolls of tobacco on my own ground, more than I had disposed of for necessaries among my neighbours; and these fifty rolls, being each of above a hundredweight, were well cured, and laid by against the return of the fleet from Lisbon: and now increasing in business and wealth, my head began to be full of projects and undertakings be-yond my reach; such as are, indeed, often the ruin of the best heads in business.
-- This was a fair proposal, it must be confessed, had it been made to any one that had not had a settlement and a plan-tation of his own to look after, which was in a fair way of coming to be very considerable, and with a good stock upon it; but for me, that was thus entered and established, and had nothing to do but to go on as I had begun, for three or four years more, and to have sent for the other hundred pounds from England; and who in that time, and with that little addition, could scarce have failed of being worth three or four thousand pounds sterling, and that increasing too - for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of.
-- There being at that time great dis-bursements for increasing the works, building an ingenio, and buying slaves, it did not amount to near so much as afterwards it produced; however,' says the old man, 'I shall give you a true account of what I have received in all, and how I have disposed of it.'
-- Lastly, I wrote to my partner, acknowledging his in-dustry in the improving the plantation, and his integrity in increasing the stock of the works; giving him instructions for his future government of my part, according to the pow-ers I had left with my old patron, to whom I desired him to send whatever became due to me, till he should hear from me more particularly; assuring him that it was my inten-tion not only to come to him, but to settle myself there for the remainder of my life.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He so frequently talked of the increasing expenses of housekeeping, and of the perpetual demands upon his purse, which a man of any consequence in the world was beyond calculation exposed to, that he seemed rather to stand in need of more money himself than to have any design of giving money away.
-- In every meeting of the kind Willoughby was included; and the ease and familiarity which naturally attended these parties were exactly calculated to give increasing intimacy to his acquaintance with the Dashwoods, to afford him opportunity of witnessing the excellencies of Marianne, of marking his animated admiration of her, and of receiving, in her behaviour to himself, the most pointed assurance of her affection.
-- Marianne saw and listened with increasing surprise.
-- Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.
-- It was an arrangement, however, justified in its effects, if not in its cause; for nothing ever appeared in Robert's style of living or of talking to give a suspicion of his regretting the extent of his income, as either leaving his brother too little, or bringing himself too much; and if Edward might be judged from the ready discharge of his duties in every particular, from an increasing attachment to his wife and his home, and from the regular cheerfulness of his spirits, he might be supposed no less contented with his lot, no less free from every wish of an exchange.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The morning sun, shining down with steadily increasing warmth, made the shady side of the streets pleasantly cool.
-- Trucks were rumbling in increasing numbers; men and women, girls and boys were moving onward in all directions.
-- He contemplated increasing his Building and Loan payments.
-- They made no effort to go in, but shifted ruefully about, digging their hands deep in their pockets and leering at the crowd and the increasing lamps.
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