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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was always the office of some grave trusty servant, in whom I could confide, whether I attended the king and queen in their progresses, or were disposed to see the gardens, or pay a visit to some great lady or minister of state in the court, when Glumdalclitch happened to be out of order; for I soon began to be known and esteemed 137among the greatest officers, I suppose more upon account of their majesties' favour, than any merit of my own.
-- The king inquires into the state of England, which the author relates to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A LOOPHOLEMr. Gradgrind walked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction.
-- It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
-- The M'Choakumchild school was all fact, and the school of design was all fact, and the relations between master and man were all fact, and everything was fact between the lying-in hospital and the cemetery, and what you couldn't state in figures, or show to be purchaseable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen.
-- They cared so little for plain Fact, these people, and were in that advanced state of degeneracy on the subject, that instead of being impressed by the speaker's strong common sense, they took it in extraordinary dudgeon.
-- 'You are very good indeed, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, shaking her head with her State humility.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But before I state the subject on which my uncle wished to confer with me, I must say a word about his personal appearance.
-- My uncle walked about the room in a state of excitement almost impossible to describe.
-- All the matters which compose the globe are in a state of incandescence; even gold, platinum, and the hardest rocks are in a state of fusion.
-- "Neither you nor anybody else know anything about the real state of the earth's interior.
-- Too hot by half, if the degree of heat was to ascend so high--in which case we should certainly be cooked--not enough, if we wanted to ascertain the exact temperature of springs or metal in a state of fusion.
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 wanted to say something later to Connie about the demi-vierge business...the half-virgin state of her affairs.
-- Well, I was in a state of murder.
-- Into the wood, in such a storm!Clifford for once let himself get into a state of nervous frenzy.
-- Only youth has a taste of immortality This news affected Connie in her state of semi-stupefied ell being with vexation amounting to exasperation.
-- In short, she fell into a state of funk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I put up at the Cross of Gold, kept then by Monsieur Henri Barronneau sixty-five at least, and in a failing state of health.
-- If you knew the real state of the case, that's the last observation you would think of making.
-- repeated Mr Meagles, who appeared (though without any ill-nature) to be in that peculiar state of mind in which the last word spoken by anybody else is a new injury.
-- On a black bier-like sofa in this hollow, propped up behind with one great angular black bolster like the block at a state execution in the good old times, sat his mother in a widow's dress.
-- That she looked at the candle she had left burning, and, measuring the time like King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state in her belief that she had been asleep for some considerable period.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On christmas night, a dozen girls piled onto the bed which was the dress circle, and sat before the blue and yel-low chintz curtains in a most flattering state of expectancy.
-- She stayed till Hannah came to take her home to dinner, but she had no appetite, and could only sit and smile upon everyone in a general state of beatitude.
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