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：
-- We will, therefore, go back, and light our fire to-night in the ru-ins of the old fort, and in the morning we shall be fresh, and ready to undertake our work like men, and not like bab-bling women or eager boys.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever she went out and compassion for her misadventure made her friends eager to entertain her she bore a demeanour that was perfect.
-- Though he had suffered so much from the ridicule of his friends, Dirk Stroeve, eager for praise and naively self-satisfied, could never resist displaying his work.
-- His red face was shining with sweat, and he had a look of comic agitation, but there was in his round, surprised eyes an eager light.
-- I was puzzled by him, and I was eager to see how he regarded the tragedy he had caused in the lives of people who had used him with so much kindness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Short,' said Mr Codlin, who with his head upon his hands, and his elbows on his knees, had been shaking himself impatiently from side to side up to this point and occasionally stamping on the ground, but who now looked up with eager eyes; 'it's possible that there may be uncommon good sense in what you've said.
-- The old man replied by shaking the little purse in his eager hand, and then throwing it down upon the table, and gathering up the cards as a miser would clutch at gold.
-- He had not expected that the house would wear any different aspect had known indeed that it could not but coming upon it in the midst of eager thoughts and expectations, it checked the current in its flow, and darkened it with a mournful shadow.
-- said their uncouth protector, glancing from the eager child to her grandfather, who hung his head and bent his eyes upon the ground.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are all eager for such a thing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but, like children they would soon stop examining me, and wander away after some other toy.
-- It was a foolish impulse, but the devil begotten of fear and blind anger was ill curbed and still eager to take advantage of my perplexity.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But four young oysters hurried up,All eager for the treat:Their coats were brushed, their faces washed,Their shoes were clean and neat And this was odd, because, you know,They hadn't any feet.
-- And then the little sleeves were carefully rolled up, and the little arms were plunged in elbow-deep to get the rushes a good long way down before breaking them off and for a while Alice forgot all about the Sheep and the knitting, as she bent over the side of the boat, with just the ends of her tangled hair dipping into the water while with bright eager eyes she caught at one bunch after another of the darling scented rushes.
-- he added as Alice turned with an eager look in the direction to which he pointed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They watched the sea with eager attention.
-- He climbed a rock, sloping to a little promontory, and there, with his arms crossed, mute and motionless, and with an eager look, he seemed to take possession of these southern regions.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having no desire to be entertained by a cat and dog combat, I stepped forward briskly, as if eager to partake the warmth of the hearth, and innocent of any knowledge of the interrupted dispute.
-- They met, and the master, irritated at seeing him clean and cheerful, or, perhaps, eager to keep his promise to Mrs. Linton, shoved him back with a sudden thrust, and angrily bade Joseph 'keep the fellow out of the room send him into the garret till dinner is over.
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