exertion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 尽力， 竭力，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：
-- It is the case of a shock from which he has recovered, so completely, as to be a highly intelligent man, capable of close applica-tion of mind, and great exertion of body, and of constantly making fresh additions to his stock of knowledge, which was already very large.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consequently the distributors of earthly blessings in the shape of places, rents, shares, and such, were all his friends, and could not overlook one of their own set; and Oblonsky had no need to make any special exertion to get a lucrative post.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The exertion this cost him, or theconsciousness of talking in that feeble way, made his angry face so 83much more angry, and his thick veins so much thicker, when hespoke, that I am not surprised, on looking back, at this peculiaritystriking me as his chief one.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, (smiling,) I hope it may be allowed that if compassion has produced exertion and relief to the sufferers, it has done all that is truly important.
-- One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned; and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins, is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.'
-- Mr. Woodhouse soon followed; and the necessity of exertion made him com-posed.
-- Mr. Knightley was hard at work upon the lower buttons of his thick leather gaiters, and either the exertion of getting them together, or some other cause, brought the colour into his face, as he answered, 'Oh!are you there? But you are miserably behindhand.
-- The bitter feelings occasioned by this speech, the many bitter feelings, made the utmost exertion necessary on Em-ma's side, to enable her to say on reply, 'Harriet, I will only venture to declare, that Mr. Knight-ley is the last man in the world, who would intentionally give any woman the idea of his feeling for her more than he really does.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- she said, meeting them at the door just as she was coming out on her way to church, and ceasing in a moment from the close compression of her two red lips, with which she had accompanied the exertion of pulling on a tight glove.
-- Mechanism only transfers labour, being powerless to supersede it, and the original amount of exertion was not cleared away; it was thrown into the body and arms.
-- But the exertion demanded by either of these latter two was greater than to walk erect.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wrote, and this exertion greatly 71fatigued me; but my convalescence had commenced, and proceeded regularly.
-- 'But this was a luxury of sensation that could not en-dure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
-- My uncle will send me news of your health, and if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.
-- Saying this, he endeavoured to spring from the bed, but the exertion was too great for him; he fell back and fainted.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shestopped, clutching the banisters, her heart hammering so hard from anger, insult and exertion that it seemed about toburst through her basque.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If Fancy's fair dreams,' she began, 'have ever pictured that when Arthur cannot overcome it pray excuse me was restored to freedom even a pie as far from flaky as the present and so deficient in kidney as to be in that respect like a minced nutmeg might not prove unacceptable if offered by the hand of true regard such visions have for ever fled and all is cancelled but being aware that tender relations are in contemplation beg to state that I heartily wish well to both and find no fault with either not the least, it may be withering to know that ere the hand of Time had made me much less slim than formerly and dreadfully red on the slightest exertion particularly after eating I well know when it takes the form of a rash, it might have been and was not through the interruption of parents and mental torpor succeeded until the mysterious clue was held by Mr F. still I would not be ungenerous to either and I heartily wish well to both.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Could swim like a duck, paddled round the castle till he came to a little door guarded by two stout fel-lows, knocked their heads together till they cracked like a couple of nuts, then, by a trifling exertion of his prodigious strength, he smashed in the door, went up a pair of stone steps covered with dust a foot thick, toads as big as your fist, and spiders that would frighten you into hysterics, MIss March.
-- It's no exertion to me, but you don't look equal to it.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma, literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the lady had stated her intention of screaming, of course she would have screamed at this additional boldness, but that the exertion was rendered unnecessary by a hasty knocking at the door: which was no sooner heard, than Mr. Bumble darted, with much agility, to the wine bottles, and began dusting them with great violence: while the matron sharply demanded who was there.
-- Now, Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry having gone out to tea and supper: and Noah Claypole not being at any time disposed to take upon himself a greater amount of physical exertion than is necessary to a convenient performance of the two functions of eating and drinking, the shop was not closed, although it was past the usual hour of shutting-up.
-- Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened; which no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall.
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