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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were carefully removed by Lord Glenarvan, and separated and spread out on the table before the eager gaze of his wife and friends.
-- The sailors were all so eager to join the expedition that Glenarvan found the only way to prevent jealousy among them was to draw lots who should go.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though the ship so swiftly sped, and though from every eye, like arrows, the eager glances shot, yet the silvery jet was no more seen that night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls), they would sit staring at the copper, with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon.
-- He was still too weak to get up to breakfast; but, when he came down into the housekeeper's room next day, his first act was to cast an eager glance at the wall, in the hope of again looking on the face of the beautiful lady.
-- She clutched the matron by the arm, and forcing her into a chair by the bedside, was about to speak, when looking round, she caught sight of the two old women bending forward in the attitude of eager listeners.
-- But, at length, he began, by slow degrees, to get better, and to be able to say sometimes, in a few tearful words, how deeply he felt the goodness of the two sweet ladies, and how ardently he hoped that when he grew strong and well again, he could do something to show his gratitude; only something, which would let them see the love and duty with which his breast was full; something, however slight, which would prove to them that their gentle kindness had not been cast away; but that the poor boy whom their charity had rescued from misery, or death, was eager to serve them with his whole heart and soul.
-- said Monks significantly, and with a look of eager inquiry; 'there may be money's worth to get, eh?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first there seemed danger of Lydia's engross-ing him entirely, for she was a most determined talker; but being likewise extremely fond of lottery tickets, she soon grew too much interested in the game, too eager in making bets and exclaiming after prizes to have attention for any-one in particular.
-- They were soon gone again, rising from their seats with an activity which took their brother by surprise, and hurry-ing off as if eager to escape from Mrs. Bennet's civilities.
-- Darcy is impatient to see his sister; and, to confess the truth, WE are scarcely less eager to meet her again.
-- 'You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns,' said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour.
-- Elizabeth was eager with her thanks and assurances of happiness.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I had a boat, my next design was to make a cruise round the island; for as I had been on the other side in one place, crossing, as I have already described it, over the land, so the discoveries I made in that little journey made me very eager to see other parts of the coast; and now I had a boat, I thought of noth-ing but sailing round the island.
-- At last, being eager to view the circum-ference of my little kingdom, I resolved upon my cruise; and accordingly I victualled my ship for the voyage, putting in two dozen of loaves (cakes I should call them) of bar-ley-bread, an earthen pot full of parched rice (a food I ate a good deal of), a little bottle of rum, half a goat, and pow-der and shot for killing more, and two large watch-coats, of those which, as I mentioned before, I had saved out of the seamen's chests; these I took, one to lie upon, and the other to cover me in the night.
-- I stretched out my hands to it, with eager wishes - 'O happy desert!'
-- There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they are set a-going by some object in view, or, though not in view, yet rendered present to the mind by the power of imagination, that motion carries out the soul, by its im-petuosity, to such violent, eager embracings of the object, that the absence of it is insupportable.
-- However, at last, after many secret disputes with myself, and after great perplexities about it (for all these arguments, one way and another, struggled in my head a long time), the eager prevailing desire of deliverance at length mastered all the rest; and I resolved, if possible, to get one of these savag-es into my hands, cost what it would.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
-- They were all in high spirits and good humour, eager to be happy, and determined to submit to the greatest inconveniences and hardships rather than be otherwise.
-- "Yes," cried he in the same eager tone, "with all and every thing belonging to it; in no one convenience or INconvenience about it, should the least variation be perceptible.
-- You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement!and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford."
-- I am persuaded that Mrs. Smith suspects his regard for Marianne, disapproves of it, (perhaps because she has other views for him,) and on that account is eager to get him away; and that the business which she sends him off to transact is invented as an excuse to dismiss him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie listened with eager ears.
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