apt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 聪明的; 合适的; 易于的，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：
-- On such occasions he was apt to evince a supreme contempt for his opponents.
-- We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
-- 'Yes, that's the sort of thing our best men are apt to do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sister was so apt a pupil, and the dancing-master had such abundant leisure to bestow upon her (for it took him a matter of ten weeks to set to his creditors, lead off, turn the Commissioners, and right and left back to his professional pursuits), that wonderful progress was made.
-- She was so beautiful, so amiable, so apt to receive any true impression given to her gentle nature and her innocent heart, and make the man who should be so happy as to communicate it, the most fortunate and enviable of all men, that he was very glad indeed he had come to that conclusion.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a good deal of rustling and whispering behind the curtain, a trifle of lamp smoke, and an occasional giggle from Amy, who was apt to get hysterical in the excitement of the moment.
-- She and Amy had had many lively skirmishes in the course of their lives, for both had quick tempers and were apt to be violent when fairly roused.
-- asked Amy, who in her loneliness felt the need of help of some sort, and found that she was apt to forget her little book, now that Beth was not there to remind her of it.
-- I'm apt to forget my resolu-tions, but if I had something always about me to remind me, I guess I should do better.
-- I know that I can carry it out perfectly well, if you and the girls will help a little, and I don't see why I can't if I'm willing to pay for it,' said Amy, with the decision which opposition was apt to change into obstinacy.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
-- During that long interval Starbuck would ever be apt to fall into open relapses of rebellion against his captain's leadership, unless some ordinary, prudential, circumstantial influences were brought to bear upon him.
-- Though, to be sure, from the small number of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when they do occur there is too apt to be a sort of shyness between them; for your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself.
-- Twenty-four hours after, his trick at the silent helm nigh to the man who was apt to doze over the grave always ready dug to the seaman's hand that fatal hour was then to come; and in the fore-ordaining soul of Steelkilt, the mate was already stark and stretched as a corpse, with his forehead crushed in.
-- It is very fat and tender, and apt to tear in pieces in hoisting it on deck.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dogs are not generally apt to revenge injuries inflicted upon them by their masters; but Mr. Sikes's dog, having faults of temper in common with his owner, and labouring, perhaps, at this moment, under a powerful sense of injury, made no more ado but at once fixed his teeth in one of the half-boots.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These words were very apt to my case, and made some impression upon my thoughts at the time of reading them, though not so much as they did afterwards; for, as for being DELIVERED, the word had no sound, as I may say, to me; the thing was so remote, so impossible in my apprehension of things, that I began to say, as the children of Israel did when they were promised flesh to eat, 'Can God spread a table in the wilder-ness?'
-- When this was done I stuck all the ground without my wall, for a great length every way, as full with stakes or sticks of the osier- like wood, which I found so apt to grow, as they could well stand; insomuch that I believe I might set in near twenty thousand of them, leaving a pretty large space be-tween them and my wall, that I might have room to see an enemy, and they might have no shelter from the young trees, if they attempted to approach my outer wall.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she showed any tendency to coquetry he would be apt to straighten her tie, or if she "took up" with him at all, to call her by her first name.
-- Chapter XI THE PERSUASION OF FASHION--FEELING GUARDS O'ER ITS OWN Carrie was an apt student of fortune's ways--of fortune's superficialities.
-- He went on educating and wounding her, a thing rather foolish in one whose admiration for his pupil and victim was apt to grow.
-- It was at that hour between afternoon and night when, for the idle, the wanderer, things are apt to take on a wistful aspect.
-- A man in his situation who comes, after a long round of worthless or hardening experiences, upon a young, unsophisticated, innocent soul, is apt either to hold aloof, out of a sense of his own remoteness, or to draw near and become fascinated and elated by his discovery.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but-- Unluckily, in a Marionette's life there's always a BUT which is apt to spoil everything.
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