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：
-- The reply was no sooner translated than the Patagonian found himself surrounded by the seven men questioning him with eager glances.
-- "No, but—""I am quite certain Robert is perfectly happy," interrupted Paganel, eager to insure one partisan at least.
-- But it was getting quite dark already, and their eager gaze could discover no traces of the DUNCAN on the gloomy expanse of water that met their sight.
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：
-- An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a han-som cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.
-- Baskerville sat for a long time, his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.
-- She had a proud, finely cut face, so regular that it might have seemed impassive were it not for the sensitive mouth and the beautiful dark, eager eyes.
-- She spoke in a low, eager voice, with a curious lisp in her utterance.
-- But I was eager to get back to my charge.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A crowd of eager claimants arose, who cared nothing about any last scion of a noble race undergo-ing treatment in Switzerland, at the expense of the deceased, as a congenital idiot.
-- 'I shall be delighted if he will stay; it would certainly be difficult for him to get back to Petersburg,' said the prince, in answer to the eager questions of Lizabetha Prokofievna.
-- cried the prince, confused, trying to hurry his words out, and growing more and more eager every mo-ment: 'I've gone and said another stupid thing.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They cheered each other on to draw the ships into the sea; they cleared the channels in front of them; they began taking away the stays from underneath them, and the welkin rang with their glad cries, so eager were they to return.
-- Phorcys, again, and noble Ascanius led the Phrygians from the far country of Ascania, and both were eager for the fray.
-- This was what Minerva was already eager to do, so down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus.
-- You would not have then found Agamemnon asleep nor cowardly and unwilling to fight, but eager rather for the fray.
-- Brave Menelaus pitied them in their fall, and made his way to the front, clad in gleaming bronze and brandish-ing his spear, for Mars egged him on to do so with intent that he should be killed by Aeneas; but Antilochus the son of Nestor saw him and sprang forward, fearing that the king might come to harm and thus bring all their labour to nothing; when, therefore Aeneas and Menelaus were set-ting their hands and spears against one another eager to do battle, Antilochus placed himself by the side of Menelaus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he swung round and approached the table with a certain eager quickness.
-- Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was Babel.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I did so, the Hyena-swine saw the Thing, and flung itself upon it with an eager cry, thrusting thirsty teeth into its neck.
-- I would go out into the streets to fight with my delusion, and prowling women would mew after me; furtive, craving men glance jealously at me; weary, pale workers go coughing by me with tired eyes and eager paces, like wounded deer drip-ping blood; old people, bent and dull, pass murmuring to themselves; and, all unheeding, a ragged tail of gibing chil-dren.
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：
-- Their anx-ious and eager looks were baffled by the deceptive light, or rested only on naked rocks, and straight and immovable trees.
-- The cry was answered by a loud shout from a little thicket, where the incautious par-ty had piled their arms; and at the next moment, Hawkeye, too eager to load the rifle he had regained, was seen ad-vancing upon them, brandishing the clubbed weapon, and cutting the air with wide and powerful sweeps.
-- cried an eager pursuer, who seemed to direct the operations of the enemy.
-- 'Softly, softly,' said the scout, extending his long rifle in front of the eager Heyward; 'we now know our work, but the beauty of the trail must not be deformed.
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