eager是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (for) 渴望的， 热切的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat and in its Christmas dress; but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly, and left their purchases upon the counter, and came running back to fetch them, and com-mitted hundreds of the like mistakes, in the best humour possible; while the Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished hearts with which they fastened their aprons behind might have been their own, worn out-side for general inspection, and for Christmas daws to peck at if they chose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others made small mudembankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high 39windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted frag-ments with eager relish.
-- Eager faces strained round pillars and corners, to get a sight of him; spectators in back rows stood up, not to miss a hair of him; people on the floor of the court, laid their hands 85on the shoulders of the people before them, to help them-selves, at anybody's cost, to a view of him stood a-tiptoe, got upon ledges, stood upon next to nothing, to see every inch of him.
-- 'The name of that prisoner was Damiens, and it was all done in open day, in the open streets of this city of Paris; and nothing was more noticed in the vast concourse that saw it done, than the crowd of la-dies of quality and fashion, who were full of eager attention to the last to the last, Jacques, prolonged until nightfall, when he had lost two legs and an arm, and still breathed!
-- Defarge stood, panting, against a background of eager eyes and open mouths, formed out-side the door; all those within the wine-shop had sprung to their feet.
-- Eager and prominent among them, one man with a craving face, and his fingers perpetually hovering about his lips, whose appearance gave great satisfaction to the spectators.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 8 Alexey Alexandrovitch had seen nothing striking or improper in the fact that his wife was sitting with Vronsky at a table apart, in eager conversation with him about something.
-- Sergey Ivanovitch listened attentively, asked him questions, and, roused by a new listener, he talked fluently, uttered a few keen and weighty observations, respectfully appreciated by the young doctor, and was soon in that eager frame of mind his brother knew so well, which always, with him, followed a brilliant and eager conversation.
-- But now Anna was eager to go, in the hope of seeing Vronsky.
-- "It appears," he went on, with eager interest, "that Friedrich was not, after all, the person chiefly responsible for the partition of Poland.
-- It even struck him as strange that they should be so eager to talk of what was of no use to anyone.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix had begun by winning several guineas, which he seemed likely to lose; but he showed himself a not less eager whist-player than Mr. Fogg.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was eager for the mellower ways of Cambridge and Boston.
-- He was eager to have Martin invent and clamor about his own Causes and Movements.
-- Because he was so intimately fond of her and so sure of her, because anger and eager hot injustices are but ways of expressing trust, Martin was irritated by her and querulous with her as he would not have endured being with any other woman, any charming Orchid.
-- Wasn't it simply too decent of the Director to be so eager to recognize and help you in every way!So cordial--and so helpful.
-- "And you really would have me give up my work--" He saw that with all her eager complaisances she had never understood what he was up to, had not comprehended one word about the murderous effect of the directorship on Gottlieb.
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：
-- And now look there: I don't know that dandy with whom I was going to fight, I see him for the first time, but he, too, has seen her on the road, just now, drunk, not knowing what she is do-ing, and now he is very eager to get hold of her, to get her away somewhere while she is in this state 芒聙娄 that's certain, believe me, I am not wrong.
-- He caught the sound of eager conversation on his departure, and above the rest rose the questioning voice of Nikodim Fomitch.
-- She was very eager to hear what he would say to the land-lady.
-- In the first place, it was evident, far too much so indeed, that Pyotr Petro-vitch had made eager use of his few days in the capital to get himself up and rig himself out in expectation of his be-trothed a perfectly innocent and permissible proceeding, indeed.
-- 'That's the way out!That's the explanation,' he decided, scrutinising her with eager curiosity, with a new, strange, almost morbid feeling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had black hair and eager black eyes, andwas thin, and had a scar upon her lip.
-- So surely as I looked towards her, did I see that eager visage,with its gaunt black eyes and searching brow, intent on mine; orpassing suddenly from mine to Steerforth's; or comprehendingboth of us at once.
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