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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought that she had been similarly frightened once last week, and that the noise was of a mysterious kind a sound of rustling and of three or four quick beats like a rapid step; while a shock or tremble was communicated to her heart, as if the step had shaken the floor, or even as if she had been touched by some awful hand.
-- To Young John, who had never seen her bereft of her quiet self-command, who had seen her from her infancy ever so reliable and self-suppressed, there was a shock in her distress, and in having to associate himself with it as its cause, that shook him from his great hat to the pavement.
-- 'You see, my dear,' said Flora, measuring out a spoonful or two of some brown liquid that smelt like brandy, and putting it into her tea, 'I am obliged to be careful to follow the directions of my medical man though the flavour is anything but agreeable being a poor creature and it may be have never recovered the shock received in youth from too much giving way to crying in the next room when separated from Arthur, have you known him long?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A SAD ACCIDENT On Friday last, we were startled by a violent shock in our basement, followed by cries of distress.
-- Going in to exult over a fallen enemy and to praise a strong-minded sister for the banishment of an objectionable lover, it cer-tainly was a shock to behold the aforesaid enemy serenely sitting on the sofa, with the strongminded sister enthroned upon his knee and wearing an expression of the most ab-ject submission.
-- she said, sitting down in her own room, pale with the shock of the discovery which she believed she had just made.
-- But her reverence for genius received a severe shock that night, and it took her some time to recover from the discovery that the great creatures were only men and women after all.
-- Therefore the shock she received can better be imagined than described, when he said in a perfectly tranquil tone, 'Do you care to dance?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly I felt a shock running through all my frame; nothing was to be seen, and nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.
-- cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall.
-- And, indeed, the shock was so sudden and violent, that we took it for granted the ship had struck against a rock; but when the amazement was a little over, we cast the lead, and sounded, but found no ground.
-- * * * * * The suddenness of the shock made the guns leap in their carriages, and several of the men were shaken out of their hammocks.
-- Lionel then goes on to impute the shock to an earthquake, and seems to substantiate the imputation by stating that a great earthquake, somewhere about that time, did actually do great mischief along the Spanish land.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, Mr. Darcy, it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that you knew to my disadvantage in Hertford-shire and, give me leave to say, very impolitic too for it is provoking me to retaliate, and such things may come out as will shock your relations to hear.'
-- I am truly glad, dearest Lizzy, that you have been spared something of these distressing scenes; but now, as the first shock is over, shall I own that I long for your return?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the third shock was over, and I felt no more for some time, I began to take courage; and yet I had not heart enough to go over my wall again, for fear of being buried alive, but sat still upon the ground greatly cast down and disconsolate, not knowing what to do.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor had often wished for an opportunity of attempting to weaken her mother's dependence on the attachment of Edward and herself, that the shock might be less when the whole truth were revealed, and now on this attack, though almost hopeless of success, she forced herself to begin her design by saying, as calmly as she could, "I like Edward Ferrars very much, and shall always be glad to see him; but as to the rest of the family, it is a matter of perfect indifference to me, whether I am ever known to them or not."
-- It was too great a shock to be borne with calmness, and she immediately left the room.
-- The shock which her marriage had given me," he continued, in a voice of great agitation, "was of trifling weight was nothing to what I felt when I heard, about two years afterwards, of her divorce.
-- The comfort of such a friend at that moment as Colonel Brandon or such a companion for her mother, how gratefully was it felt! a companion whose judgment would guide, whose attendance must relieve, and whose friendship might soothe her! as far as the shock of such a summons COULD be lessened to her, his presence, his manners, his assistance, would lessen it.
-- The shock of Colonel Brandon's errand at Barton had been much softened to Mrs. Dashwood by her own previous alarm; for so great was her uneasiness about Marianne, that she had already determined to set out for Cleveland on that very day, without waiting for any further intelligence, and had so far settled her journey before his arrival, that the Careys were then expected every moment to fetch Margaret away, as her mother was unwilling to take her where there might be infection.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole of this conversation was such a shock that, coming as it did after all the other worry of the past week, it sufficed to induce a deep gloom and moral revulsion in Hurstwood.
-- In this period of self-forgetfulness, aroused first by the shock of argument and perfected by a dinner in the hotel, with cocktails and cigars, he was as nearly like the old Hurstwood as he would ever be again.
-- Carrie looked at the card handed by the boy and suffered a shock of surprise.
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