utmost是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最远的, 最大的, 极度的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I doubt, sir,' returned the nephew, 'whether, if it had car-ried me to the utmost brink of death, you would have cared to stop me there.'
-- Then Mr. Stryver turned and burst out of the Bank, caus-ing such a concussion of air on his passage through, that to stand up against it bowing behind the two counters, re-quired the utmost remaining strength of the two ancient clerks.
-- 'The utmost good that I am capable of now, Miss Ma-nette, I have come here to realise.
-- He, therefore, made haste to say: 'It is of the utmost importance to me (you know, Citizen, 359even better than I, of how much importance), that I should be able to communicate to Mr. Lorry of Tellson's Bank, an English gentleman who is now in Paris, the simple fact, without comment, that I have been thrown into the prison of La Force.
-- He knew, as every one employed as he was did, that he was never safe; that flight was impossible; that he was tied fast under the shadow of the axe; and that in spite of his utmost tergiversation and treachery in furtherance of the reigning terror, a word might bring it down upon him.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed he in agony; and while he so thought, all his ideas and feelings of overpower-ing dizziness, against which he struggled with the utmost power of desperation, encompassed him with renewed force.
-- In his eyes the figures were extraordinarily beautiful, and of the utmost importance; for the bit of glass which was in his eye caused this.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this interview was still of the utmost gravity for her.
-- And on his own account he was anxious to enjoy to the utmost all Russian forms of amusement.
-- Those six weeks had for her been a time of the utmost bliss and the utmost misery.
-- She had unconsciously the whole evening done her utmost to arouse in Levin a feeling of love--as of late she had fallen into doing with all young men-- and she knew she had attained her aim, as far as was possible in one evening, with a married and conscientious man.
-- But after that hour there passed another hour, two hours, three, the full five hours he had fixed as the furthest limit of his sufferings, and the position was still unchanged; and he was still bearing it because there was nothing to be done but bear it; every instant feeling that he had reached the utmost limits of his endurance, and that his heart would break with sympathy and pain.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now, strange to say, in the shafts of such a cart he saw a thin little sorrel beast, one of those peasants' nags which he had often seen straining their utmost under a heavy load of wood or hay, especially when the wheels were stuck in the mud or in a rut.
-- 'Let me tell you, sir,' he began deliberately, doing his utmost to restrain himself but breathing hard, 'at the first moment I saw you you were ill-disposed to me, but I remained here on purpose to find out more.
-- Of late she had begun to talk more than ever to her eldest girl, Polen-ka, a child of ten, who, though there was much she did not understand, understood very well that her mother needed her, and so always watched her with her big clever eyes and strove her utmost to appear to understand.
-- He came in Rlooking as though he had the utmost difficulty not to burst out laughing again.
-- 'That's just the point, that at the present moment,' Ras-kolnikov tried his utmost to feign embarrassment, 'I am not quite in funds 芒聙娄 and even this trifling sum is beyond me 芒聙娄 I only wanted, you see, for the present to declare that the things are mine, and that when I have money芒聙娄.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I waited, in the utmost impatience, until mymother came home from Mrs. Grayper's (for it was that identicalneighbour), to ascertain if we could get leave to carry out this greatidea.
-- I havethought, since, that its assuming that character was a necessaryconsequence of Mr. Murdstone's firmness, which wouldn't allow 55him to let anybody off from the utmost weight of the severestpenalties he could find any excuse for.
-- It made me very miserable to hear it, and Ilooked at Mrs. Micawber's red eyes with the utmost sympathy.
-- The Doctor, however, who felt, I am sure, that he was makingeverybody happy, was well pleased, and had no suspicion but thatwe were all at the utmost height of enjoyment.
-- Her utmost powers of expression(which were certainly not great in ink) were exhausted in theattempt to write what she felt on the subject of my journey.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was soon perfectly satisfied of Mr. Martin's being no otherwise re-membered, than as he furnished a contrast with Mr. Elton, of the utmost advantage to the latter.
-- He wished the road might be- impassable, that he might be able to keep them all at Randalls; and with the utmost good-will was sure that accommoda-tion might be found for every body, calling on his wife to agree with him, that with a little contrivance, every body might be lodged, which she hardly knew how to do, from the consciousness of there being but two spare rooms in the house.
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