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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His name was Martin Arrowsmith, of Elk Mills, in the state of Winnemac.
-- Chapter 2 The state of Winnemac is bounded by Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and like them it is half Eastern, half Midwestern.
-- III On his first day in medical school, Martin Arrowsmith was in a high state of superiority.
-- "I come from the most enterprising town--three hundred and sixty- two inhabitants--in the entire state of North Dakota--Wheatsylvania.
-- He worked himself up to a state of virtue in which it was agreeably clear to him that he must throw Madeline over, entirely as a rebuke.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been difficult to sink to a lower ebb ofdisorder, but to Raskolnikov in his present state of mind this was positively agreeable.
-- And now look there: I don't know that dandy with whom I was going to fight, I see him for the first time, but he, too, has seen her on the road, just now, drunk, not knowing what she is do-ing, and now he is very eager to get hold of her, to get her away somewhere while she is in this state 芒聙娄 that's certain, believe me, I am not wrong.
-- They state themselves that they knocked and the door was locked; yet three minutes later when they went up with the porter, it turned out the door was unfastened.'
-- The bodies upstairs were warm, you under-stand, warm when they found them!If they, or Nikolay alone, had murdered them and broken open the boxes, or simply taken part in the robbery, allow me to ask you one question: do their state of mind, their squeals and giggles and childish scuffling at the gate fit in with axes, bloodshed, fiendish cunning, robbery?
-- Now he was in a state bordering on ecstasy, and all that he had drunk seemed to fly to his head with redoubled effect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the state of matters on the afternoon of what I may beexcused for calling, that eventful and important Friday.
-- Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a verydragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as acredible witness, reported next day, that happening to peep in atthe parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried byMiss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, andpounced upon before he could make his escape.
-- On my imparting thisdiscovery in confidence to Peggotty, she informed me that herbrother dealt in lobsters, crabs, and crawfish; and I afterwardsfound that a heap of these creatures, in a state of wonderfulconglomeration with one another, and never leaving off pinching 37whatever they laid hold of, were usually to be found in a littlewooden outhouse where the pots and kettles were kept.
-- I was very sensible of my entertainer's goodness, and listened tothe woman's going to bed in another little crib like mine at theopposite end of the boat, and to him and Ham hanging up twohammocks for themselves on the hooks I had noticed in the roof, ina very luxurious state of mind, enhanced by my being sleepy.
-- Here was acoincidence!I immediately went into an explanation how I hadnever seen my own father; and how my mother and I had alwayslived by ourselves in the happiest state imaginable, and lived sothen, and always meant to live so; and how my father's grave wasin the churchyard near our house, and shaded by a tree, beneaththe boughs of which I had walked and heard the birds sing many apleasant morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not a state to be safe-ly entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
-- Emma remained in a state of vexation too; but there was more indistinctness in the causes of her's, than in his.
-- I thought I could not be so deceived; but now, it is clear; the state of his mind is as clear and decided, as my wishes on the subject have been ever since I knew you.
-- The horror of being blocked up at Randalls, while her children were at Hartfield, was full in her imagination; and fancying the road to be now just passable for adventurous people, but in a state that admitted no delay, she was eager to have it set-tled, that her father and Emma should remain at Randalls, while she and her husband set forward instantly through all the possible accumulations of drifted snow that might impede them.
-- She was too completely overpowered to be immediately able to reply: and two moments of silence being ample encour-agement for Mr. Elton's sanguine state of mind, he tried to take her hand again, as he joyously exclaimed 'Charming Miss Woodhouse!allow me to interpret this interesting silence.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
-- Boldwood was listlessly noting how the frost had hardened and glazed the surface of the snow, till it shone in the red eastern light with the polish of marble; how, in some portions of the slope, withered grass-bents, encased in icicles, bristled through the smooth wan coverlet in the twisted and curved shapes of old Venetian glass; and how the footprints of a few birds, which had hopped over the snow whilst it lay in the state of a soft fleece, were now frozen to a short permanency.
-- We mean to surprise Weatherbury by coming there soon as husband and wife, though I blush to state it to one nearly a stranger.
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