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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would not in the least alter the actual state of the case; so not a word was said, and after answering all Miss Grant's questions, Lady Helena began to interrogate in her turn, asking her about her past life and her present circumstances.
-- Indeed, is it likely that a people with so many names has any actual existence?"
-- "Because the bottle could only have been thrown into the sea just when the vessel went to pieces on the rocks, and consequently the latitude and longitude given refer to the actual place of the shipwreck."
-- However, after Glenarvan had calmly surveyed the actual state of affairs, he determined to bring things to a crisis.
-- This thought so filled them with joy that they forgot all the dangers of their actual situation, and only regretted that they could not start immediately.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without as well as within, the hous-es seem inhospitable and mysterious an impression which is difficult to explain, unless it has something to do with the actual architectural style.
-- But we are also aware that if actual law is not on our side, human law is for us, natural law, the law of com-mon-sense and conscience, which is no less binding upon every noble and honest man that is, every man of sane judgment because it is not to be found in miserable legal codes.
-- The sight of the portrait face alone had filled his heart full of the agony of real sympathy; and this feeling of sympathy, nay, of actual SUFFERING, for her, had never left his heart since that hour, and was still in full force.
-- Ask them, ask any one of them, or all of them, what they mean by happiness!Oh, you may be perfectly sure that if Columbus was happy, it was not after he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it!You may be quite sure that he reached the culminating point of his happiness three days before he saw the New World with his actual eves, when his mutinous sailors wanted to tack about, and return to Europe!What did the New World matter after all?
-- This was the presentment of a poor mangled body which had evidently suffered unbearable anguish even be-fore its crucifixion, full of wounds and bruises, marks of the violence of soldiers and people, and of the bitterness of the moment when He had fallen with the cross all this com-bined with the anguish of the actual crucifixion.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We will, however, since you so bid us, refrain from actual fighting, but we will make serviceable suggestions to the Argives, that they may not all of them perish in your displeasure.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had shivered only at the days of actual torment in the enclosure.
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：
-- It was evident that his momentary weakness had vanished with the explanation of a mystery which his own experience had not served to fathom; and though he now felt all the realities of their actual condition, that he was prepared to meet them with the energy of his hardy nature.
-- Then came the glowing image of Alice; her distress; her actual danger; and all the peril of his situation was forgotten.
-- The lat-ter cast an impatient look at his neighbor, and felt his flesh creep with uncontrollable horror when he found himself in actual contact with Magua.
-- Among his actual auditors, however, it mere-ly gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffer- ing.
-- She knew not how to support herself, and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half-an-hour.
-- It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.
-- To be sure, you knew no actual good of me but nobody thinks of THAT when they fall in love.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When their promised visit to the Park and consequent introduction to these young ladies took place, they found in the appearance of the eldest, who was nearly thirty, with a very plain and not a sensible face, nothing to admire; but in the other, who was not more than two or three and twenty, they acknowledged considerable beauty; her features were pretty, and she had a sharp quick eye, and a smartness of air, which though it did not give actual elegance or grace, gave distinction to her person. Their manners were particularly civil, and Elinor soon allowed them credit for some kind of sense, when she saw with what constant and judicious attention they were making themselves agreeable to Lady Middleton.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the time she wavered in mind, now persuading herself that she could buy it right away if she chose, now recalling to herself the actual condition.
-- Such conversation as was indulged in held the same relationship to the actual mental enactments of the twain that the low music of the orchestra does to the dramatic incident which it is used to cover.
-- It was filled for him with observations and mental comments concerning the actual guests of the hotel, who passed in and out, and those more prosperous pedestrians whose good fortune showed in their clothes and spirits as they passed along Broadway, outside.
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