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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two sisters worked on in silence, Ursula having always that strange brightness of an essential flame that is caught, meshed, contravened.
-- "I think Gerald is right race is the essential element in nationality, in Europe at least," he said.
-- Her hands lay on the paddle like slumber, she only wanted to see him, like a crystal shadow, to feel his essential presence.
-- She thought of his face, white and purely wrought, and of his eyes that had such a dark, constant will of assertion, and she touched her own forehead, to feel if she were mad, she was so transfigured in white flame of essential hate.
-- It was as if he were a beam of essential enmity, a beam of light that did not only destroy her, but denied her altogether, revoked her whole world.
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