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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had she felt, which she did not, any wish whatever for the married state in the abstract, she could not reasonably have rejected him, being a woman who frequently appealed to her understanding for deliverance from her whims.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Goriot was an elderly libertine, whose eyes had only been preserved by the skill of the physician from the malign influence of the remedies necessitated by the state of his health.
-- The old man scarcely seemed to hear the witticisms at his expense that followed on the words; he had relapsed into the dreamy state of mind that these superficial observers took for senile torpor, due to his lack of intelligence.
-- Eugene de Rastignac had just returned to Paris in a state of mind not unknown to young men who are conscious of unusual powers, and to those whose faculties are so stimulated by a difficult position, that for the time being they rise above the ordinary level.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When my guest was a little recovered I had great trou-ble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose res-toration evidently depended upon entire repose.
-- Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science.
-- He then took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its elementary terms.
-- My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
-- I remained two days at Lausanne, in this painful state of mind.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroesand eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
-- The twins had been at home, freshly expelled fromthe University of Virginia, at the time the Troop was organized and they had joined enthusiastically; but after theshooting episode, two months ago, their mother had packed them off to the state university, with orders to stay there.
-- He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middleGeorgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
-- Gerald, his mind never free of the thought of owning a plantation of his own, arranged an introduction, and hisinterest grew as the stranger told how the northern section of the state was filling up with newcomers from theCarolinas and Virginia.
-- Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast that all of therest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlor across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.
-- Chapter VIMy state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it.
-- My state of mind, as I have described it, began before I was up in the morning, and lasted long after the subject had died out, and had ceased to be mentioned saving on exceptional occasions.
-- I could not help looking at the fire, in an obvious state of doubt.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she discovered in what state of life the young lord had been born, and next morning complained of her wrongs to her father, and begged him to help her to get rid of her husband, who was nothing else but a tailor.
-- ****** The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the Ger-man state of Hesse.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, so far have you been from answering my ex-pectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of de-grading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.
-- He directed that those who had already beheld me should return home, and not presume to come within fifty yards of my house, without license from the court; whereby the secretaries of state got considerable fees.
-- I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor; and to let him know, 'that I thought it would not become me, who was a foreigner, to interfere with parties; but I was ready, with the hazard of my life, to defend his person and state against all invaders.'
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