tension是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 紧张局势; 情绪紧张; 不安状态，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This reasoning, however, seemed to end in a paradox, and lead to the further consideration: 'What matter though it be only disease, an abnormal tension of the brain, if when I recall and analyze the moment, it seems to have been one of harmony and beauty in the highest de-gree an instant of deepest sensation, overflowing with unbounded joy and rapture, ecstatic devotion, and com-pletest life?'
-- The extraordinary, almost un-natural, tension of the nerves which upheld Hippolyte up to this point, had now arrived at this final stage.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is possibly due to the tension of my mind, at the time, but even now that start into the hot stillness of the tropi- cal afternoon is a singularly vivid impression.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Feeling that with the others riding in the race, he was the center upon which all eyes were fastened, Vronsky walked up to his mare in that state of nervous tension in which he usually became deliberate and composed in his movements.
-- Under the influence of her mood he felt in all his being a continually growing tension of happiness.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For all his appearance of nerveless steadiness, during the tension of examination-time Duer was as nervous as Martin, and one evening at supper, when Clif was bellowing, Duer snapped, "Will you kindly not make so much racket?"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Journalist tried to relieve the tension by telling anecdotes of Hettie Potter.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Ursula, too eagerly, throwing aside her sewing and leaping up, as if to escape something, thus betraying the tension of the situation and causing a friction of dislike to go over Gudrun's nerves.
-- A queer little tension in the room roused him.
-- There was a silence between them, and a strange tension of hostility.
-- With the entrance of the two young men a sudden tension was felt.
-- The terrible tension grew stronger and stronger, it was most fearful agony, like being walled up.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between him and Connie there was a tension that each pretended not to notice, but there it was.
-- There it was: suddenly, the tension of keeping up her appearances fell from her.
-- There was tension till after coffee, when Hilda said she would go up to her room.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And with that the pump clanged like fifty fire-engines; the men tossed their hats off to it, and ere long that peculiar gasping of the lungs was heard which denotes the fullest tension of life's utmost energies.
-- Dragged into Stubb's boat with blood-shot, blinded eyes, the white brine caking in his wrinkles; the long tension of Ahab's bodily strength did crack, and helplessly he yielded to his body's doom: for a time, lying all crushed in the bottom of Stubb's boat, like one trodden under foot of herds of elephants.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her nervous tension relaxed.
-- At last he saw that the actors were beginning to arrive, and his nervous tension increased, until it seemed as if he could not stand much more.
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