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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the clouds remained unbroken for the present, and in the evening, after a brisk gallop of forty miles, the horses stopped on the brink of deep CANADAS, immense natural trenches filled with water.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Hall stood there he heard his wife's voice coming out of the depth of the cellar, with that rapid telescoping of the syllables and interrogative cocking up of the final words to a high note, by which the West Sussex villager is wont to indicate a brisk impatience.
-- And then a number of brisk young men began with remarkable alacrity to tidy up the goods that remained disturbed.
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：
-- No, not of danger; but that we shall have what you may call a brisk push of it, is probable; and it may happen, a brush, a scrim-mage, or some such divarsion, but always where covers are good, and ammunition abundant.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then up comes Mr Brass, very brisk and fresh; and, having bowed to the judge, like a man who has had the pleasure of seeing him before, and who hopes he has been pretty well since their last meeting, folds his arms, and looks at his gentleman as much as to say 'Here I am full of evidence Tap me!'
-- But the cares of the Marchioness did not stop here; for, disappearing for an instant and presently returning with a basin of fair water, she laved his face and hands, brushed his hair, and in short made him as spruce and smart as anybody under such circumstances could be made; and all this, in as brisk and business-like a manner, as if he were a very little boy, and she his grown-up nurse.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He owned, when driven into a corner, that he seemed to have been wrong about the crew, that some of them were as brisk as he wanted to see and all had behaved fairly well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was too sprightly to allow of their walking at a slow pace on her account, but she was very grateful to be talked to, and very willing to talk to any extent: so, when they came to their part of the town, she was more brisk and vivacious than ever.
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：
-- They had no alive happiness, no mat-ter how brisk and good-looking they were.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Beg pardon, sir,' said a brisk waiter, rubbing the table.
-- Solitary, weak, and scantily acquainted with the most necessary words of the only language in which he could communicate with the people about him, he went with the stream of his fortunes, in a brisk way that was new in those parts.
-- Here's father, you see, come out to serve at the sound of the bell, like a brisk young shopman.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've been working away at mathematics till my head is in a muddle, and I'm going to freshen my wits by a brisk turn.
-- Mr. Lau-rence seemed to suspect that something was brewing in her mind, for after taking several brisk turns about the room, he faced round on her, speaking so abruptly that Rasselas tumbled face downward on the floor.
-- Mrs. March is as brisk and cheery, though rather gray-er, than when we saw her last, and just now so absorbed in Meg's affairs that the hospitals and homes still full of wounded 'boys' and soldiers' widows, decidedly miss the motherly missionary's visits.
-- I feel quite young and brisk again after that.'
-- Then he smiled, and when a tap came at the door, called out in a loud, brisk tone, 'Herein!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn, under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen shirt.
-- For some days we had very little wind; it was not till the nineteenth that a brisk gale from the northwest sprang up.
-- True, other fish are found exceedingly brisk in those Hyperborean waters; but these, be it observed, are your cold-blooded, lungless fish, whose very bellies are refrigerators; creatures, that warm themselves under the lee of an iceberg, as a traveller in winter would bask before an inn fire; whereas, like man, the whale has lungs and warm blood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the old gentleman came in as brisk as need be; but, he had no sooner raised his spectacles on his forehead, and thrust his hands behind the skirts of his dressing-gown to take a good long look at Oliver, than his countenance underwent a very great variety of odd contortions.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, an experienced traveller, a brisk man of the world, had never come within such close range before.
-- He looked at her forehead, which was moist from her brisk walk.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The new old gentleman turns brisk towards Ab Turner and his pard, and his eye lights up like he judged he'd got the king THIS time, and says: 'There you've heard what he said!Was there any such mark on Peter Wilks' breast?'
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