agitation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 摇动; 焦虑，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Weston had set off to pay the visit in a good deal of agitation herself; and in the first place had wished not to go at all at present, to be allowed merely to write to Miss Fairfax instead, and to defer this ceremo-nious call till a little time had passed, and Mr. Churchill could be reconciled to the engagement's becoming known; as, considering every thing, she thought such a visit could not be paid without leading to reports: but Mr. Weston had thought differently; he was extremely anxious to shew his approbation to Miss Fairfax and her family, and did not conceive that any suspicion could be excited by it; or if it were, that it would be of any consequence; for 'such things,' he observed, 'always got about.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had tried to elude agitation by fixing her mind on the trees, sky, any trivial object before her eyes, whilst his reproaches fell, but ingenuity could not save her now.
-- It was so evident to her in the midst of her agitation that Troy had undressed in the full conviction of dressing again almost immediately, that the notion that anything but death could have prevented him was a perverse one to entertain.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthu-siasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-- This idea was probably suggested by the extreme agitation I had exhibited when the mode of the murder had been described.
-- As Mr. Kirwin said this, notwithstanding the agitation I endured on this retrospect of my sufferings, I also felt con-220 Frankensteinsiderable surprise at the knowledge he seemed to possess concerning me.
-- But you are ill; even now you trem-ble; you are unfit for agitation of any kind.'
-- And poor Clerval ' The name of my unfortunate and murdered friend was an agitation too great to be endured in my weak state; I shed tears.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this terrible agitation of mind, I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose in-habitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world; where I was able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand, and perform those other actions, which will be recorded for ever in the chronicles of that empire, while posterity shall hardly believe them, although attested by millions.
-- However, I was terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it was but of half an hour: for the horse went about forty feet at every step and trotted so high, that the agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a ship in a great storm, but much more frequent.
-- I had, in this closet, a field-bed and a hammock, hung from the ceiling, two chairs and a table, neatly screwed to the floor, to prevent being tossed about by the agitation of the horse or the coach.
-- In hopes to ingratiate myself further into his majesty's favour, I told him of 'an invention, discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder, into a heap of which, the smallest spark of fire falling, would kindle the whole in a moment, although it were as big as a moun-tain, and make it all fly up in the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat down at the side of the bed, tenderly asking how she was, and dwelling on the necessity of her keeping very quiet after her agitation and exposure to the weather last night.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What could be the cause of this --to what atmospheric agitation could be ascribed this draught?
-- It is perpetually undergoing the modifications caused by the decomposition of internal matter, the agitation consequent on the flowing of extensive liquid currents, the excessive action of magnetism which tends to shake it incessantly, at a time when even the multitudinous beings on its surface do not suspect the seething process to be going on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us pass to the second,' said Clennam, smiling her agitation away, making the blaze shine upon her, and putting wine and cake and fruit towards her on the table.
-- He gathered from a tremor on her lip, and a passing shadow of great agitation on her face, that her mind was with her father.
-- Do me the favour to add that I shall be happy to wait on Mrs Clennam, to offer my personal compliments, and to apologise for having occasioned any agitation in this tranquil corner, if it should suit her convenience to endure the presence of a stranger for a few minutes, after he shall have changed his wet clothes and fortified himself with something to eat and drink.'
-- As the spectacle of their approach met his view, he displayed the utmost agitation and despondency of mind; and altogether regardless of Old Nandy, who, making his reverence, stood with his hat in his hand, as he always did in that gracious presence turned about, and hurried in at his own doorway and up the staircase.
-- Her agitation was exceedingly great, and the tears rolled down her face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man bit his yellow fingers, and meditated for some seconds; his face working with agitation the while, as if he dreaded something, and feared to know the worst.
-- Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned, brought on a headache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening, that, added to her unwillingness to see Mr. Darcy, it determined her not to attend her cousins to Ros-ings, where they were engaged to drink tea.
-- Having been frequently in company with him since her re-turn, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of formal partiality entirely so.
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