actual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 实际的； 现实的， 真实的， 目前的，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; she brushed hers with her hand, as if Gabriel had been irritating its pink surface by actual touch, and the free air of her previous movements was reduced at the same time to a chastened phase of itself.
-- Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
-- Bathsheba was no schemer for marriage, nor was she deliberately a trifler with the affections of men, and a censor's experience on seeing an actual flirt after observing her would have been a feeling of surprise that Bathsheba could be so different from such a one, and yet so like what a flirt is supposed to be.
-- Travellers for the variety tourist had hardly developed into a distinct species at this date sometimes said in passing, when they cast their eyes up to the sign-bearing tree, that artists were fond of representing the signboard hanging thus, but that they themselves had never before noticed so perfect an instance in actual working order.
-- All was harmoniously arranged at last, and we now see Oak mounted on a strong cob, and daily trotting the length and breadth of about two thousand acres in a cheerful spirit of surveillance, as if the crops all belonged to him the actual mistress of the one-half and the master of the other, sitting in their respective homes in gloomy and sad seclusion.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitter-ness of grief commences.
-- Thus situated, employed in the most detestable occupa-tion, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daylight never entered the house as to my thoughts and remembrances of it, any more than as to the actual fact.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To go there, or elsewhere, to bury himself in the bowels of the earth, or to travel over its summits, was all the same to him!As for me, amused and occupied by the incidents of travel, I had begun to forget the inevitable future; but now I was once more destined to realize the actual state of affairs.
-- Here, to our mutual surprise, we found an actual flight of stone steps, which wonderfully assisted our ascent.
-- I could not believe my eyes, but the actual heat which affected my body allowed me no chance of doubting.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the actual sex-thrill within the body, the sisters nearly succumbed to the strange male power.
-- He was not in actual touch with anybody, save, traditionally, with Wragby, and, through the close bond of family defence, with Emma.
-- But there was no touch, no actual contact.
-- 'I don't see a bit of connexion with the actual violets,' she said.
-- But the actual thing itself is nothing to them, a bit distasteful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Clennam had ever admitted the forbidden passion into his breast, this period might have been a period of real trial; under the actual circumstances, doubtless it was nothing nothing.
-- 'In consequence of which,' said Mrs Tickit, 'when I quivered my eyes and saw her actual form and figure looking in at the gate, I let them close again without so much as starting, for that actual form and figure came so pat to the time when it belonged to the house as much as mine or your own, that I never thought at the moment of its having gone away.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his po-lite regrets didn't impose upon her, and when she galloped away with the Count, she saw Laurie sit down by her aunt with an actual expression of relief.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.
-- One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.
-- Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought into actual play this is a thing which carries more of true terror than any other aspect of this dangerous affair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Before I am sworn, I must beg to say one word,' said Mr. Brownlow; 'and that is, that I really never, without actual experience, could have believed--' 'Hold your tongue, sir!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or cir-cumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side.'
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