confusion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 困惑， 糊涂； 混淆； 混乱， 骚乱，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：
-- 281 It was but the inquiry of his first confusion and astonish-ment, the answer being obvious.
-- The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as it splashed the river-walls of the Island of Paris, where the picturesque confusion of houses and cathedral shone bright in the light of the moon, the day came coldly, looking like a dead face out of the sky.
-- There is no confusion or failure in my memory; it can recall, and could detail, every word that was ever spo-468 A tale of two citiesken between me and those brothers.
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：
-- Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as soon as the confusion of colors was somewhat over, all of a sudden there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and high up above stood a magnificent old church, with two high pointed towers.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.
-- "I was meaning to come and see you," he said; and then, recollecting with what intention he was trying to see her, he was promptly overcome with confusion and blushed.
-- On the journey in the train he talked to his neighbors about politics and the new railways, and, just as in Moscow, he was overcome by a sense of confusion of ideas, dissatisfaction with himself, shame of something or other.
-- But when he got out at his own station, when he saw his one-eyed coachman, Ignat, with the collar of his coat turned up; when, in the dim light reflected by the station fires, he saw his own sledge, his own horses with their tails tied up, in their harness trimmed with rings and tassels; when the coachman Ignat, as he put in his luggage, told him the village news, that the contractor had arrived, and that Pava had calved,--he felt that little by little the confusion was clearing up, and the shame and self-dissatisfaction were passing away.
-- And most of all that look of confusion and tenderness!Yes, yes, that's it!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The confusion of master and man, who had quite forgotten the affair at Bombay, for which they were now detained at Calcutta, may be imagined.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin found himself in a confusion of little chairs and vast gilded arches, of polite but disapproving ladies with programs in their laps, unromantic musicians making unpleasant noises below and, at last, incomprehensible beauty, which made for him pictures of hills and deep forests, then suddenly became achingly long- winded.
-- The wire-gang were as healthy and as simple as the west wind; they had no pretentiousness; though they handled electrical equipment they did not, like medics, learn a confusion of scientific terms and pretend to the farmers that they were scientists.
-- The confusion of the bacteriological laboratory was ecstasy to him- -the students in shirt-sleeves, filtering nutrient gelatine, their fingers gummed from the crinkly gelatine leaves; or heating media in an autoclave like a silver howitzer.
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：
-- The drunken man was more and more overcome by dismay and confusion as they drew nearer the house.
-- He felt utterly broken: darkness and confusion were in his soul.
-- He was in full possession of his faculties, free from confusion or giddiness, but his hands were still trembling.
-- He glanced timidly at Avdotya Romanovna, but her proud countenance wore at that moment an expres-sion of such gratitude and friendliness, such complete and unlooked-for respect (in place of the sneering looks and ill-disguised contempt he had expected), that it threw him into greater confusion than if he had been met with abuse.
-- At the thought of it, she was so frightened that she hurriedly got up again, and in utter confusion addressed Raskolnikov.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A day or two before the burial- I think it was a day or two before,but I am conscious of confusion in my mind about that heavy time,with nothing to mark its progress- she took me into the room.
-- My impression is, that I was in a state of confusion about it, and,oscillating between the two points, touched neither.
-- But through all the confusion and lowness of spirits in which wehad been, so unexpectedly to me, involved, I plainly discerned thatMr. and Mrs. Micawber and their family were going away fromLondon, and that a parting between us was near at hand.
-- He was sointent upon it, that I had ample leisure to observe the large paperkite in a corner, the confusion of bundles of manuscript, thenumber of pens, and, above all, the quantity of ink (which he 194seemed to have in, in half-gallon jars by the dozen), before heobserved my being present.
-- Owing to some confusion in the dark, the door was gone.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She cast her eye over it, pondered, caught the meaning, read it through again to be quite certain, and quite mistress of the lines, and then passing it to Harriet, sat happily smil-ing, and saying to herself, while Harriet was puzzling over the paper in all the confusion of hope and dulness, 'Very well, Mr. Elton, very well indeed.
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