brisk是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 轻快的; 兴隆的; 寒冷而清新的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So did the room, 54 Sons and Loversthe fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms.
-- The brisk fire of questioning to which he was -ex76 Sons and Loversposed, elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talk-ed sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by any-body, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon un-der his flapped waist-coat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire.
-- The valet had put her away from the door, the carriage had broken into a brisk trot, the postilions had quickened the pace, she was left far behind, and Monseigneur, again escorted by the Furies, was rapidly diminishing the league or two of distance that remained between him and his cha-165teau.
-- asked the brisk Young Jerry.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout, delighted that the young woman, who was very gracious to him, was going to continue the journey with them, went off at a brisk gait to obey his master's order.
-- Her two masts leaned a trifle backward; she carried brigantine, foresail, storm-jib, and standing-jib, and was well rigged for running before the wind; and she seemed capable of brisk speed, which, indeed, she had already proved by gaining several prizes in pilot-boat races.
-- A brisk breeze arose about ten o'clock; but, though it might have been prudent to take in a reef, the pilot, after carefully examining the heavens, let the craft remain rigged as before.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the brisk attack of one who wishes to escape the discussion of his guilt, the Doc rumbled while he waddled toward his desk-chair: "What you doing here, young fella?
-- Clif Clawson, who combined a brisk huckstering with his jokes, sold to Fatty for four dollars a History of Medicine which he had bought, second- hand, for two, and while Fatty never read it, never conceivably could read it, the possession of the fat red book made him feel learned.
-- The total number of his papers, in a brisk scientific realm where really clever people published five times a year, was not more than twenty-five in thirty years.
-- Free from the sight of Orchid, brisk in the coolness, he forgot the chit and pawed again the problem of his work in Nautilus.
-- Chapter 25 Then for a year with each day longer than a sleepless night, yet the whole year speeding without events or seasons or eagerness, Martin was a faithful mechanic in that most competent, most clean and brisk and visionless medical factory, the Rouncefield Clinic.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My hand upon that, too!Daisy, stir the fire,and make it a brisk one!and Mr. Peggotty, unless you can induceyour gentle niece to come back (for whom I vacate this seat in thecorner), I shall go.
-- When he ceasedshe became brisk again in an instant, and rattled away withsurprising volubility.
-- I had a hope that this brisk treatment mightfreshen my wits a little; and I think it did them good, for I sooncame to the conclusion that the first step I ought to take was to try 468if my articles could be cancelled and the premium recovered.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- observed a brisk young man Mark Clark by name, a genial and pleasant gentleman, whom to meet anywhere in your travels was to know, to know was to drink with, and to drink with was, unfortunately, to pay for.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hale vermicelli manufacturer, sixty-two years of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous tradesman, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it did you good to look at him; the man with something boyish in his smile, had suddenly sunk into his dotage, and had become a feeble, vacillating septuagenarian.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their lazy, blurredvoices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
-- But there was a brisk and restless vitality about the young Irishman, fresh from a country where winds blew wetand chill, where misty swamps held no fevers, that set him apart from these indolent gentle-folk of semi-tropicalweather and malarial marshes.
-- Accustomedto the brisk voices of upland Georgia, the drawling flat voices of the low country seemed affected to her.
-- For a few minutes they went through a brisk drillthat brought perspiration to their foreheads and cheers and applause from the audience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he happened to go out now, and as Wemmick was brisk and talkative, I said to Wemmick that I hardly knew what to make of Mr. Jaggers's manner.
-- While I felt sincerely obliged to him for being so interested and considerate, I had an odd half-provoked sense of suspicion upon me, that if Joe had been coming to see him, he wouldn't have been quite so brisk about it.
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