state是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 状态， 情况； 国， 州v. 陈述， 说明，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：
-- Scrooge lay in this state until the chime had gone three-quarters more, when he remembered, on a sudden, that the Ghost hadwarned him of a visitation when the bell tolled one.
-- and in the hall appeared the school-master himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him.
-- The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more chil-dren there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
-- In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see, who bore a glowing torch, in shape not un-like Plenty's horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
-- The panting of the 10 A tale of two citieshorses communicated a tremulous motion to the coach, as if it were in a state of agitation.
-- I should be so much more at my ease about your state of mind.'
-- Rendered in a manner desperate, by her state and by the beckoning of their conductor, he drew over his neck the arm that shook upon his shoulder, lifted her a little, and hurried her into the room.
-- That Provi-dence, however, had put it into the heart of a person who was beyond fear and beyond reproach, to ferret out the na-ture of the prisoner's schemes, and, struck with horror, to disclose them to his Majesty's Chief Secretary of State and most honourable Privy Council.
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：
-- These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below.'
-- 'It is really disgraceful what a state this place is in,' muttered he to himself.
-- He was in an intermediate state between sleeping and waking; at vari-ance with himself, with his company, with the country, and with the government.
-- What a state he was in!He was so uneasy lest he should lose something of his splendor, that he was quite bewildered amidst the glare and brightness; when suddenly both folding-doors opened and a troop of children rushed in as if they would upset the Tree.
-- You arrived as soon as your letter, and you were so handsome that you still are and had a long yellow silk handkerchief round your neck, and a bran new hat on; oh, you were so dashing!Good heav-ens!What weather it was, and what a state the street was in!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But today that satisfaction was embittered by Matrona Philimonovna's advice and the unsatisfactory state of the household.
-- After spending two months in Moscow in a state of enchantment, seeing Kitty almost every day in society, into which he went so as to meet her, he abruptly decided that it could not be, and went back to the country.
-- We in the country try to bring our hands into such a state as will be most convenient for working with.
-- The princess for her part, going round the question in the manner peculiar to women, maintained that Kitty was too young, that Levin had done nothing to prove that he had serious intentions, that Kitty felt no great attraction to him, and other side issues; but she did not state the principal point, which was that she looked for a better match for her daughter, and that Levin was not to her liking, and she did not understand him.
-- But, in spite of that, the mother had spent the whole of that winter in a state of terrible anxiety and agitation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They made a halt at seven o'clock, the young woman being still in a state of complete prostration.
-- It was formerly defended by a noble fort, which has since become a state prison; its commerce has dwindled away, and Passepartout in vain looked about him for such a bazaar as he used to frequent in Regent Street.
-- Fix did not look at the state of things in the same light.
-- She often chatted with Passepartout, who did not fail to perceive the state of the lady's heart; and, being the most faithful of domestics, he never exhausted his eulogies of Phileas Fogg's honesty, generosity, and devotion.
-- It only remained to go to bed and sleep which everybody did while the train sped on across the State of California.
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