shock是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. (使) 震惊，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped at Highbury, at the Bates's, I fancy, some time and then came on hither; but was in such a hurry to get back to his uncle, to whom he is just now more necessary than ever, that, as I tell you, he could stay with us but a quarter of an hour. He was very much agitated very much, indeed to a degree that made him 488 Emmaappear quite a different creature from any thing I had ever seen him before. In addition to all the rest, there had been the shock of finding her so very unwell, which he had had no previous suspicion of and there was every appearance of his having been feeling a great deal.'
-- Poor man! it was at first a considerable shock to him, and he tried earnestly to dissuade her from it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Reaching home he quietly unharnessed the horse and came indoors, as we have seen, to the fearful shock that awaited him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This state of mind preyed upon my health, which had perhaps never entirely recovered from the first shock it had sustained.
-- I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.
-- The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She almost gasped aloud in the shock of its unexpectedness.
-- cried Gerald with real interest, his Irishman's passion for horses shining in his eyes, and Scarlettagain felt the sense of shock in comparing her mother with Mrs. Tarleton.
-- "And now, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to propose a surprise an innovation that may shock some of you,but I ask you to remember that all this is done for the hospital and for the benefit of our boys lying there."
-- Scarlett was back again where she had been before she married Charles and it was as if she had never marriedhim, never felt the shock of his death, never borne Wade.
-- Thecombined shock of the coming of the Yankees and her death had stunned him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a shock he became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching for mercy.
-- But I suppose there is a shock of regret which may exist without much tenderness.
-- The second piece was the last new grand comic Christmas pantomime, in the first scene of which, it pained me to suspect that I detected Mr. Wopsle with red worsted legs under a highly magnified phosphoric countenance and a shock of red curtain-fringe for his hair, engaged in the manufacture of thunderbolts in a mine, and displaying great cowardice when his gigantic master came home (very hoarse) to dinner.
-- To see her with her white hair and her worn face kneeling at my feet gave me a shock through all my frame.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have no selfish meaning in what I say; but I find the shock of what broke upon me last night, to be very heavy indeed.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What happened when the terrible shock took place, when the raft was cast upon the rocky shore, it would be impossible for me now to say.
-- Nevertheless, it appeared quite clear to me, that we were not in the principal chimney of the volcano, but in an accessory conduit, where we felt the counter shock of the great and principal tunnel filled by burning lava.
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：
-- He was much too hurt in himself, the great shock of his maiming, to be easy and flippant.
-- Connie had received the shock of vision in her womb, and she knew it; it lay inside her.
-- Therefore, outwardly, it came as the most terrible blow and shock to him, He had kept the surface of his confidence in her quite serene.
-- He's so wrapped up in his own immortal self, that when he does get a shock he's like a mummy tangled in its own bandages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Naturally a retired and simple man, he had shown no particular sense of being ruined at the time when that calamity fell upon him, further than that he left off washing himself when the shock was announced, and never took to that luxury any more.
-- It is no proof of an inconstant mind, but exactly the opposite, when the idea will not bear close comparison with the reality, and the contrast is a fatal shock to it.
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