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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Lord of Luss and "laird" of Malcolm, he represented his county in the House of Lords; but, with his Jacobite ideas, he did not care much for the favor of the House of Hanover, and he was looked upon coldly by the State party in England, because of the tenacity with which he clung to the traditions of his forefathers, and his energetic resistance to the political encroachments of Southerners.
-- It would not in the least alter the actual state of the case; so not a word was said, and after answering all Miss Grant's questions, Lady Helena began to interrogate in her turn, asking her about her past life and her present circumstances.
-- "I mean this: the guanaco is only good for eating when it is killed in a state of rest.
-- Secret uneasiness kept him in a continual state of wakefulness.
-- But Glenarvan refused to touch it, and lay stretched on his poncho in a state of absolute prostration.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He declares that he heard cries, but is unable to state from what direc-tion they came.
-- Mr. Stapleton, a mutual friend who was much concerned at his state of health, was of the same opinion.
-- He has rushed about the moor in a crazy state and eventually fallen over here and broken his neck.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rogojin, too, seemed to have taken up the conversation with unusual alacrity it appeared that he was still in a considerable state of excitement, if not abso-lutely feverish, and was in real need of someone to talk to for the mere sake of talking, as safety-valve to his agitation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not consider her partiality for Edward in so prosperous a state as Marianne had believed it.
-- In this state of her spirits, a letter was delivered to her from the post, which contained a proposal particularly well timed.
-- She was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life which humanity required.
-- But there was one method so direct, so simple, and in her opinion so eligible of knowing the real state of the affair, and of instantly removing all mystery, that she could not help suggesting it to her mother.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt the worn state of her shoes.
-- "This is the house I travel for," he went on, pointing to a picture on it, "corner of State and Lake."
-- Her shoes were old, and her necktie was in that crumpled, flattened state which time and much wearing impart.
-- The girl next her noticed her state of mind.
-- He could talk races with Hurstwood, tell interesting incidents concerning himself and his experiences with women, and report the state of trade in the cities which he visited, and so managed to make himself almost invariably agreeable.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out.
-- Why, they said he couldn't be sold till he'd been in the State six months, and he hadn't been there that long yet.
-- They call that a govment that can't sell a free nig-ger till he's been in the State six months.
-- He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two chil- dren, and if their master wouldn't sell them, they'd get an Ab'litionist to go and steal them.
-- One morning, when we was pretty well down the State of Arkansaw, we come in sight of a little one-horse town in a big bend; so we tied up about three-quarters of a mile above it, in the mouth of a crick which was shut in like a tunnel by the cypress trees, and all of us but Jim took the canoe and went down there to see if there was any chance in that place for our show.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before I leave you, I wish to state that there will be another performance tomorrow night.
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