diversion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 转向， 转移； 牵制； 解闷； 娱乐，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：
-- With mingled feelings of annoyance at never being able to get away from acquaintances anywhere, and longing to find some sort of diversion from the monotony of his life, Vronsky looked once more at the gentleman, who had retreated and stood still again, and at the same moment a light came into the eyes of both.
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：
-- Duncan, who was not altogether as easy under this nice estimate of distances as his companions, was glad to find, however, that owing to their superior dexterity, and the diversion among their enemies, they were very sensibly ob-taining the advantage.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been "spieler" in medicine shows, chiropodist, spiritualist medium, esoteric teacher, head of sanitariums for the diversion of neurotic women.
-- Besides motoring, drinking, and dancing to the Victrola, the chief diversion of the Group was cards.
-- IV Through both the economico-literary and the Rolls-Royce section of Joyce's set the rumor panted that there was a new diversion in an exhausted world--going out to Martin's laboratory and watching him work, and being ever so silent and reverent, except perhaps when Joyce murmured, "Isn't he adorable the way he teaches his darling bacteria to say 'Pretty Polly'!"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, I will consider it later," he said to himself, "and now I must have some diversion from these painful impressions."
-- The home circle of Vladimir Vasilievitch consisted of his characterless wife, her sister, whose fortune he managed to get into his own hands by selling her property and depositing the money in his own name, and his gentle, scared, homely daughter, who was leading a solitary, hard life, and whose only diversion consisted in visiting the religious meetings at Aline's and Countess Catherine Ivanovna's.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This would occasion a diversion in Jip's favour, andsome inking of his nose, perhaps, as a penalty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject.
-- He was occupied in this diversion when a coach stopped near the door, and presently afterwards there was a loud double-knock.
-- As this was no business of Mr Swiveller's, the person not ringing the office bell, he pursued his diversion with perfect composure, notwithstanding that he rather thought there was nobody else in the house.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spot had been consecrated to this ancient diversion from time immemorial, the old stocks conveniently forming a base facing the boundary of the churchyard, in front of which the ground was trodden hard and bare as a pavement by the players.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 38 Gulliver's Travels This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court.
-- While he was thus reasoning and resolving with himself, a sardral, or gentleman-usher, came from court, command- ing my master to carry me immediately thither for the diversion of the queen and her ladies.
-- My answer was, 'that we were overstocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted some authors less consulted truth, than their own vanity, or in-terest, or the diversion of ignorant readers; that my story could contain little beside common events, without those ornamental descriptions of strange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound.
-- And to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him, 'that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators.'
-- This was a matter of diversion to my master and his fam-ily, as well as of mortification to myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maggy being broad awake, and in the act of distantly gloating over the fruit and cakes with chuckles of anticipation, Clennam made the best diversion in his power by pouring her out a glass of wine, which she drank in a series of loud smacks; putting her hand upon her windpipe after every one, and saying, breathless, with her eyes in a prominent state, 'Oh, ain't it d'licious!Ain't it hospitally!'
-- A diversion was occasioned here, by Mr F.'s Aunt making the following inexorable and awful statement:'There's mile-stones on the Dover road!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - This morning I began to order my times ofwork, of going out with my gun, time of sleep, and time of diversion - viz.
-- CHAPTER XX - FIGHT BETWEEN FRIDAY AND A BEARBUT never was a fight managed so hardily, and in such a surprising manner as that which followed between Friday and the bear, which gave us all, though at first we were sur-prised and afraid for him, the greatest diversion imaginable.
-- This was a good diversion to us; but we were still in a wild place, and our guide very much hurt, and what to do we hardly knew; the howling of wolves ran much in my head; and, indeed, except the noise I once heard on the shore of Africa, of which I have said something already, I never heard anything that filled me with so much horror.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a consequence, she recalled, with rising feeling, how often he had refused to go to places with her, to share in little visits, or, indeed, take part in any of the social amenities which furnished the diversion of her existence.
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