efficient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 能胜任的, 效率高的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have no machines, no good stock, no efficient supervision; we don't even know how to keep accounts.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no more sanitary and efficient dairy in Iowa than that of old Klopchuk, on the outskirts of Nautilus.
-- In medical school and Zenith General Hospital, Angus Duer had been efficient enough, but now he was ten times as self-assured.
-- Efficient universal CO-OPERATION--that's the thing in science today--the time of this silly, jealous, fumbling individual research has gone by.
-- And the three of us-- Some day we might be able to erect a superstructure of co-operative science which would control not only McGurk but every institute and every university scientific department in the country, and so produce really efficient research.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Strickland's sister was older than she, not unlike her, but more faded; and she had the efficient air, as though she carried the British Empire in her pocket, which the wives of senior officers acquire from the consciousness of belonging to a superior caste.
-- Her education made it likely that she would be a typist more efficient than the average, and her story made her claims appealing.
-- She was so efficient that it was certain she would make a success of the adventure.
-- I am certain that he was an efficient one.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and offspring are secure, there is less necessity indeed there is no necessity for an efficient family, and the specialisation of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears.
-- In the next place, I hoped to procure some means of fire, so that I should have the weapon of a torch at hand, for nothing, I knew, would be more efficient against these Morlocks.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As far back as Scarlett could remember, her mother had always been the same, her voice soft and sweet whetherin praising or in reproving, her manner efficient and unruffled despite the daily emergencies of Gerald's turbulenthousehold, her spirit always calm and her back unbowed, even in the deaths of her three baby sons.
-- She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs. Merriwether, the wounded and the wholeSouthern Confederacy, as Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which she used for hospitalwork.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We drank all the wine, and Mr. Pumblechook pledged himself over and over again to keep Joseph up to the mark (I don't know what mark), and to render me efficient and constant service (I don't know what service).
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And to Gudrun it was a real delight, in make-belief, to be the childlike, clinging woman to the man who stood there on the quay, so good-looking and efficient in his white clothes, and moreover the most important man she knew at the moment.
-- He arranged what pensions were necessary, he looked for efficient substitutes, and when these were found, he substituted them for the old hands.
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：
-- But now that Clifford was drifting off to this other weird-ness of industrial activity, becoming almost a CREATURE, with a hard, efficient shell of an exterior and a pulpy interior, one of the amazing crabs and lobsters of the modern, in-dustrial and financial world, invertebrates of the crustacean order, with shells of steel, like machines, and inner bodies of soft pulp, Connie herself was really completely stranded.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, besides the application to him of the generic remark above, this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship, upon a three or four years' voyage, in uncivilized and far-distant seas.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as neither of these criminals answered to the name of Oliver, or knew anything about him, Nancy made straight up to the bluff officer in the striped waistcoat; and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded her own dear brother.
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