essential是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 本质(的) , 必要(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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His son obeyed, and the crowd approached; they were bawling and hissing round a dingy hearse and din-gy mourning coach, in which mourning coach there was only one mourner, dressed in the dingy trappings that were considered essential to the dignity of the position.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she was full of mystery about her art, in which a certain pair of magic spectacles did her essential service.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And for the first time the idea clearly presented itself that it was essential to put an end to this false position, and the sooner the better.
-- He was saying: "Danger in the races of officers, of cavalry men, is an essential element in the race.
-- Chapter 7 Stephan Arkadyevitch had gone to Petersburg to perform the most natural and essential official duty--so familiar to everyone in the government service, though incomprehensible to outsiders-- that duty, but for which one could hardly be in government service, of reminding the ministry of his existence--and having, for the due performance of this rite, taken all the available cash from home, was gaily and agreeably spending his days at the races and in the summer villas.
-- But he forgot many other essential matters, the want of which greatly distressed Darya Alexandrovna later on.
-- Darya Alexandrovna regarded staying in the country for the summer as essential for the children, especially for the little girl, who had not succeeded in regaining her strength after the scarlatina, and also as a means of escaping the petty humiliations, the little bills owing to the wood-merchant, the fishmonger, the shoemaker, which made her miserable.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its essential nature, he pointed out, was an academic question.
-- He would yet determine the essential nature of phage; and as he became stronger and surer--and no doubt less human--he saw ahead of him innumerous inquiries into chemotherapy and immunity; enough adventures to keep him busy for decades.
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：
-- 'In the most serious and essential matters,' Pyotr Petro-vitch replied, as though delighted at the question.
-- Now that one can talk to you, I should like to impress upon you that it is essential to avoid the elementary, so to speak, fundamental causes tending to produce your morbid con-dition: in that case you will be cured, if not, it will go from bad to worse.
-- Wouldn't you like 芒聙娄 something more essential before tea?'
-- I simply hinted that an 'extraordinary' man has the right 芒聙娄 that is not an official right, but an inner right to decide in his own conscience to overstep 芒聙娄 certain obstacles, and only in case it is essential for the practical fulfilment of his idea (sometimes, perhaps, of benefit to the whole of humanity).
-- Dounia was simply essential to him; to do without her was unthinkable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I so far agree with what Miss Trotwood hasremarked,' observed Miss Murdstone, bridling, 'that I consider ourlamented Clara to have been, in all essential respects, a mere child.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston had accompanied her to Mrs. Bates's, and 510 Emmagone through his share of this essential attention most handsomely; but she having then induced Miss Fairfax to join her in an airing, was now returned with much more to say, and much more to say with satisfaction, than a quarter of an hour spent in Mrs. Bates's parlour, with all the encum-brance of awkward feelings, could have afforded.
-- With the greatest respect, and the warmest friendship, do I mention Miss Woodhouse; my father perhaps will think I ought to add, with the deepest humiliation. A few words which dropped from him yes-terday spoke his opinion, and some censure I acknowledge myself liable to. My behaviour to Miss Woodhouse indi-cated, I believe, more than it ought. In order to assist a concealment so essential to me, I was led on to make more than an allowable use of the sort of intimacy into which we were immediately thrown. I cannot deny that Miss Wood-house was my ostensible object but I am sure you will believe the declaration, that had I not been convinced of her indifference, I would not have been induced by any selfish views to go on. Amiable and delightful as Miss Wood-house is, she never gave me the idea of a young woman likely to be attached; and that she was perfectly free from any tendency to being attached to me, was as much my con-viction as my wish. She received my attentions with an easy, friendly, goodhumoured playfulness, which exactly suited me.
-- And, in fact, you have heard all the essential already.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he gave it for his opinion, 'that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of poli-ticians put together.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paused to look at her, and, still holding her hand, said:'Louisa, I have not considered it essential to ask you one question, because the possibility implied in it appeared to me to be too remote.
-- It was only (she observed) because Miss Gradgrind happened to be a little late, and Mr. Bounderby's time was so very precious, and she knew it of old to be so essential that he should breakfast to the moment, that she had taken the liberty of complying with his request; long as his will had been a law to her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The animal certainly belonged to the order in which naturalists class the sturgeon, but it differed from that fish in many essential particulars.
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：
-- A kind of hopeless affection he seemed to feel for her, and the essential remoteness remained the same.
-- The only thing that is a unit, non-organic, composed of many different, yet equally essential parts, is the machine.
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