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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to considered the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones he had various ways of rendering himself both use-ful and agreeable.
-- His appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farmhouse, and the addition of a su-pernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats, or, peradventure, the parade of a silver teapot.
-- He came clattering up to the school-door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry - making or 'quilting-frolic,' to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having, delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook, and was seen scampering, away up the Hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was quiet by nature, regular from principle, zealous from habit, evincing little disturbance at the different surprises of life, very quick with his hands, and apt at any service required of him; and, despite his name, never giving advice even when asked for it.
-- Besides, when it is a question of monsters, the imagination is apt to run wild.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began by remarking that soda-water, though a good thing in the abstract, was apt to lie cold upon the stomach unless qualified with ginger, or a small infusion of brandy, which latter article he held to be preferable in all cases, saving for the one consideration of expense.
-- I tell you what,' said Codlin, 'for all his having a kind of way with him that you'd be very apt to like, I'm the real, open-hearted man.
-- And so well did Nell profit by her instructions, and so apt was she to remember them, that by the time they had been shut up together for a couple of hours, she was in full possession of the history of the whole establishment, and perfectly competent to the enlightenment of visitors.
-- The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that if the victim of its falsehood and malice have a clear conscience, he cannot fail to be sustained under his trials, and somehow or other to come right at last; 'in which case,' say they who have hunted him down, ' though we certainly don't expect it nobody will be better pleased than we.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way.
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：
-- I will not deny, however, but the horses cowered when I passed them, as though they scented the wolves; and a wolf is a beast that is apt to hover about an Indian ambushment, craving the offals of the deer the savages kill.'
-- demanded Hawkeye, sternly; 'Tis a charge of powder saved, and ammunition is as precious now as breath to a worried deer!Freshen the priming of your pistols the midst of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.'
-- But the task would exceed our prerog-atives; and, as history, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness, it is probable that Louis de Saint Veran will be viewed by pos-terity only as the gallant defender of his country, while his cruel apathy on the shores of the Oswego and of the Hori-can will be forgotten.
-- Even the children would not be excluded; but boys, little able to wield the instruments, tore the tomahawks from the belts of their fathers, and stole into the ranks, apt imitators of the savage traits exhibited by their parents.
-- 'Ay, lad,' said the scout in English a language he was apt to use when a little abstracted in mind; 'the same blood runs in your veins, I believe; but time and distance has a little changed its color.
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