intensity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 强烈， 剧烈； 强度，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her bulky figure in a shawl and skirt might have been comic were it not for the intensity of feeling upon her face.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seized him by the shoulder and gazed with an intensity of loathing and re-venge at him, but said nothing as though his feelings were too strong to permit of words.
-- 'Our Russian intensity not only astonishes ourselves; all Europe wonders at our conduct in such cases!For, if one of us goes over to Roman Catholicism, he is sure to become a Jesuit at once, and a rabid one into the bargain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found myself that the cries were singularly irritating, and they grew in depth and intensity as the afternoon wore on.
-- I fell at full length upon the floor, and the door slammed and shut out the passionate intensity of his face.
-- I talked now without the catching in my breath, due to the intensity of my excite-ment, that had troubled me at first.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In its whiteness and intensity I recognised that electric light which played round the submarine boat like a magnificent phenomenon of phosphorescence.
-- This dazzling spectacle was enchanting!Perhaps some atmospheric condition increased the intensity of this phenomenon.
-- The intensity of the tempest increased with the night.
-- The intensity of his look seemed to attract, and fascinate, and draw it onward more surely than if he had been towing it.
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：
-- There was an intensity in the air, almost magical.
-- The first days passed in an ecstasy of physical motion, sleighing, skiing, skating, moving in an intensity of speed and white light that surpassed life itself, and carried the souls of the human beings beyond into an inhuman abstraction of velocity and weight and eternal, frozen snow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My eyes are dazzled, blinded by the intensity of light, my ears are deafened by the awful roar of the elements.
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：
-- Miss Bentley was a shallow old maid with a rather large nose and romantic disposition who served tea with a careful intensity worthy of a sacrament.
-- His very intensity and acumen in the affairs of the pits seemed like a manifestation of madness to her, his very inspirations were the inspirations of insanity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In part relieved by the intensity of this threat, and in part (monstrous as the fact is) by a general impression that it was in some sort a religious proceeding, she handed back the book to the old man, and was silent.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain; the storm booming without in solemn swells; I began to be sensible of strange feelings.
-- Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.
-- Whether the flitting attendance of the one still and solitary jet had gradually worked upon Ahab, so that he was now prepared to connect the ideas of mildness and repose with the first sight of the particular whale he pursued; however this was, or whether his eagerness betrayed him; whichever way it might have been, no sooner did he distinctly perceive the white mass, than with a quick intensity he instantly gave orders for lowering.
-- When he halted before the binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the compass, that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of his purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed with a certain wild longing, if not hopefulness.
-- Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before you stake your all on this chance; before you suffer yourself to be carried to the highest point of hope; reflect for a few moments, my dear child, on Rose's history, and consider what effect the knowledge of her doubtful birth may have on her decision: devoted as she is to us, with all the intensity of her noble mind, and with that perfect sacrifice of self which, in all matters, great or trifling, has always been her characteristic.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She presented her part with some felicity, though nothing like the intensity which had aroused the feeling at the end of the long first act.
-- In them the whole intensity of the man's nature was distilling itself.
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