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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince's conversation was artless and confiding to a degree, and the servant could not help feeling that as from visitor to common serving-man this state of things was highly improper.
-- I shall find you a place in one of the State departments, an easy place but you will require to be accurate.
-- He could not under-stand such a state of things, and was obliged to conclude that it was pride, the pride of an injured and imaginative woman, which had gone to such lengths that it preferred to sit and nurse its contempt and hatred in solitude rather than mount to heights of hitherto unattainable splendour.
-- I rec-ollect I awoke from this state for the first time at Basle, one evening; the bray of a donkey aroused me, a donkey in the town market.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Should some one of them see you bearing so much treasure through the dark-ness of the flying night, what would not your state then be?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the rigid figure, evidently in a state of painfully suppressed rage.
-- When Mrs. Hall took his dinner in to him, he was already so absorbed in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test-tubes, that he did not hear her until she had swept away the bulk of the straw and put the tray on the table, with some little emphasis perhaps, seeing the state that the floor was in.
-- A small group supported Mrs. Hall, who was picked up in a state of collapse.
-- While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic.
-- I was in a state of physical serenity, and that was reflected in my mind.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the first place I must state that there never were four men in the dingey, the number was three.
-- All the time he had been in a state of ill-concealed irritation at the noise of the vivisected puma.
-- But it was too hot to think elaborately, and presently I fell into a tranquil state midway between dozing and waking.
-- I was in a state of collapse.
-- 'Tell me what it all means,' said I, in a state bordering on hyster-ics.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although in a state of perfect repose, and apparent-ly disregarding, with characteristic stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him, there was a sullen fierceness min-gled with the quiet of the savage, that was likely to arrest the attention of much more experienced eyes than those which now scanned him, in unconcealed amazement.
-- His eye, alone, which glistened like a fiery star amid lowering clouds, was to be seen in its state of native wildness.
-- * In the state of Rhode Island there is a bay called Narra-gansett, so named after a powerful tribe of Indians, which formerly dwelt on its banks.
-- A second yell soon fol-lowed the first, when a rush of voices was heard pouring down the island, from its upper to its lower extremity, until they reached the naked rock above the caverns, where, after a shout of savage triumph, the air continued full of horrible cries and screams, such as man alone can utter, and he only when in a state of the fiercest barbarity.
-- The scout, who by this time was seated, examining into the state of his rifle with a species of parental assiduity, now looked up at the other in a displeasure that he did not affect to conceal, roughly interrupting further speech.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
-- He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters.
-- Fain would I pause to dwell upon the world of charms that burst upon the enraptured gaze of my hero, as he en-tered the state parlor of Van Tassel's mansion.
-- He repaid them in kind with large extracts from his invaluable author, Cot-ton Mather, and added many marvellous events that had taken place in his native State of Connecticut, and fearful sights which he had seen in his nightly walks about Sleepy Hollow.
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