devotion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 献身， 热诚， 专心，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the whole of this scene, which lasted some three hours, he had plenty of shouting and weeping and sentimental company, and throughout Defarge held him by the collar, as if to restrain him from flying at the objects of his brief devotion and tearing them to pieces.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You lay too much stress on your devotion for me to value it much," she responded in the same jesting tone, involuntarily listening to the sound of Vronsky's steps behind them.
-- And with his close assiduity, his conscientious devotion to his work, he's strained to the utmost; and there's some outside burden weighing on him, and not a light one," concluded the doctor, raising his eyebrows significantly.
-- She remembered the simple delight expressed on the round, good-humored face of Anna Pavlovna at their meetings; she remembered their secret confabulations about the invalid, their plots to draw him away from the work which was forbidden him, and to get him out-of-doors; the devotion of the youngest boy, who used to call her "my Kitty," and would not go to bed without her.
-- And connecting this saying with his forgiveness of her, with his devotion to the children, he understood it now in his own way.
-- Dolly observed that she was longing to express her opinion in regard to her mistress's position, especially as to the love and devotion of the count to Anna Arkadyevna, but Dolly carefully interrupted her whenever she began to speak about this.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when the passengers counted each other on the station platform several were found missing; among others the courageous Frenchman, whose devotion had just saved them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- VII For all his devotion to Max Gottlieb's pessimistic view of the human intellect, Martin had believed that there was such a thing as progress, that events meant something, that people could learn something, that if Madeline had once admitted she was an ordinary young woman who occasionally failed, then she was saved.
-- He was lonely for Leora, and all his state of grace, all his earnest and simple-hearted devotion to carousal, degenerated into sleepiness.
-- She so warmly and modestly assured Ross McGurk of the merits of Gottlieb and of her timorous devotion to him, she so purred to the flattery of Rippleton Holabird, she so blandly answered the hoarse hostility of Terry Wickett by keeping him from getting materials for his work, that the Institute reeled with intrigue.
-- Terry was rough, he was surly, he was colloquial, he despised many fine and gracious things, he offended many fine and gracious people, but these acerbities made up the haircloth robe wherewith he defended a devotion to such holy work as no cowled monk ever knew.
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：
-- Listening to Sonia with dignity, Katerina Ivanovna inquired with equal dignity how Pyotr Petrovitch was, then at once whispered almost aloud to Raskolnikov that it certainly would have been strange for a man of Pyotr Petrovitch's po-sition and standing to find himself in such 'extraordinary company,' in spite of his devotion to her family and his old friendship with her father.
-- Zametov will make a scandal in the French style in a house of bad reputa-tion, over a glass of champagne 芒聙娄 that's all your Zametov is good for!While I'm perhaps, so to speak, burning with devotion and lofty feelings, and besides I have rank, conse-quence, a post!I am married and have children, I fulfil the duties of a man and a citizen, but who is he, may I ask?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Haven't youheard her say over and over again, that on this account she wishesto spare me a great deal of trouble, which she thinks I am notsuited for, and which I really don't know myself that I am suitedfor; and isn't she up early and late, and going to and frocontinually- and doesn't she do all sorts of things, and grope intoall sorts of places, coal-holes and pantries and I don't know where,that can't be very agreeable- and do you mean to insinuate thatthere is not a sort of devotion in that?'
-- Mr. Micawber was so deeply affected by this proof of her devotion (as to me, I was dissolved in tears), that he hung over her in a passionate manner, imploring her to look up, and to be calm.
-- The devotion of a life- it seems a life, it isall the same- is at an end; Miss Shepherd comes out of the morningservice, and the Royal Family know her no more.
-- I am persuaded she knew no difference betweenhis having been a personal benefactor of hers and a kind friend tome, and that she would have received him with the utmostgratitude and devotion in any case.
-- I knew whatthe devotion of her nature was.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XIVMrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be interrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and it must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to settle whether she were very pretty indeed, or only rather pretty, or not pretty at all.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel had almost constantly preceded her in this tour every evening, watching her affairs as carefully as any specially appointed officer of surveillance could have done; but this tender devotion was to a great extent unknown to his mistress, and as much as was known was somewhat thanklessly received.
-- I wish you knew what is in me of devotion to you; but it is impossible, that.
-- "True," she said, and though vexed at first she had too much sense to blame them long or seriously for a devotion to her that was as valuable as it was rare.
-- A great hope had latterly germinated in Boldwood, whose unreasoning devotion to Bathsheba could only be characterized as a fond madness which neither time nor circumstance, evil nor good report, could weaken or destroy.
-- The keen instincts of Bathsheba had perceived that the farmer's staunch devotion to herself was still undiminished, and she sympathized deeply.
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