suspense是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (新闻、 决定) 不确定, 悬而未决，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：
-- Expectation and suspense were on every face, with the exception of that of the prince, who stood gravely wondering how an affair so entirely personal could have awakened such lively and widespread interest in so short a time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lucie should be spared the pain of sepa-ration; and her father, always reluctant to turn his thoughts towards the dangerous ground of old, should come to the 345knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt.
-- Your suspense is nearly ended, my dar-ling; he shall be restored to you within a few hours; I have encompassed him with every protection.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agonizing condition of suspense she had passed in Moscow, the tardiness and indecision of Alexey Alexandrovitch, her solitude--she put it all down to him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By giving him, so to speak, a definite position, I shall put him out of suspense and set his mind at rest, so that he will retreat into his shell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked so steadfastly at me: with a kind ofdoubt, or pity, or suspense in her affection: that I summoned thestronger determination to show her a perfectly cheerful face.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such events are very interesting, but the suspense of them cannot last long.
-- Without his sanction I could not hope to be listened to again. I spoke; circumstances were in my favour; the late event had softened away his pride, and he was, earlier than I could have anticipated, wholly reconciled and complying; and could say at last, poor man!with a deep sigh, that he wished I might find as much happiness in the marriage state as he had done. I felt that it would be of a different sort. Are you disposed to pity me for what I must have suffered in opening the cause to him, for my suspense while all was at stake? No; do not pity me till I reached Highbury, and saw how ill I had made her.
-- In this state of suspense they were befriended, not by any sudden illumination of Mr. Woodhouse's mind, or any won-derful change of his nervous system, but by the operation of the same system in another way. Mrs. Weston's poultry-house was robbed one night of all her turkeys evidently by the ingenuity of man.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak may have had the best of intentions in withholding for as many days as possible the details of what had happened to Fanny; but had he known that Bathsheba's perceptions had already been exercised in the matter, he would have done nothing to lengthen the minutes of suspense she was now undergoing, when the certainty which must terminate it would be the worst fact suspected after all.
-- "I hope to God she'll come, or this night will be nothing but misery to me!Oh my darling, my darling, why do you keep me in suspense like this?"
-- Their suspense was diverted, however, by a discovery which was made in the afternoon, throwing more light on Boldwood's conduct and condition than any details which had preceded it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This suspense is a thousand times worse than the most horrible event; tell me what new scene of death has been acted, and whose murder I am now to lament?'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, if Pa would only come home!She could not endure the suspense another moment She looked impatientlydown the road again, and again she was disappointed.
-- Suspense grew and the beginnings of dread slowly crawled over the town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After an interval of suspense on my part that was quite enthralling and almost painful, I saw his hand appear on the other side of Miss Skiffins.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could bear the suspense and suffering no longer, and seated myself against the wall, behind which I could hear the water seething and effervescing not two feet away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bar's interest in apples was so overtopped by the wrapt suspense in which he pursued the changes of these pears, from the moment when Lord Decimus solemnly opened with 'Your mentioning pears recalls to my remembrance a pear-tree,' down to the rich conclusion, 'And so we pass, through the various changes of life, from Eton pears to Parliamentary pairs,' that he had to go down-stairs with Lord Decimus, and even then to be seated next to him at table in order that he might hear the anecdote out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, they were as pleasant a party as, under the circumstances, they could well have been; and it was late before they retired, with light and thankful hearts, to take that rest of which, after the doubt and suspense they had recently undergone, they stood much in need.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for Jane, HER anxiety under this suspense was, of course, more painful than Elizabeth's, but whatever she felt she was desirous of concealing, and between herself and Elizabeth, therefore, the subject was never alluded to.
-- Elizabeth, who was left by herself, now smiled at the ra-pidity and ease with which an affair was finally settled, that had given them so many previous months of suspense and vexation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every thing in such suspense and uncertainty; and seeing him so seldom we can hardly meet above twice a-year.
-- or have you none but that of waiting for Mrs. Ferrars's death, which is a melancholy and shocking extremity? Is her son determined to submit to this, and to all the tediousness of the many years of suspense in which it may involve you, rather than run the risk of her displeasure for a while by owning the truth?"
-- At ten o'clock, she trusted, or at least not much later her mother would be relieved from the dreadful suspense in which she must now be travelling towards them.
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