voluntary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 自愿的, 志愿的; 有意的，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：
-- Like you, a voluntary exile from France; like you, driven from it by its distractions, op-pressions, and miseries; like you, striving to live away from it by my own exertions, and trusting in a happier future; I look only to sharing your fortunes, sharing your life and home, and being faithful to you to the death.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A suttee," returned the general, "is a human sacrifice, but a voluntary one.
-- While Sir Francis was speaking, the guide shook his head several times, and now said: "The sacrifice which will take place to-morrow at dawn is not a voluntary one."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his second year of internship, when the thrills of fires and floods and murder became as obvious a routine as bookkeeping, when he had seen the strangely few ways in which mankind can contrive to injure themselves and slaughter one another, when it was merely wearing to have to live up to the pretentiousness of being The Doctor, Martin tried to satisfy and perhaps kill his guilty scientific lust by voluntary scrabbling about the hospital laboratory, correlating the blood counts in pernicious anemia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have myself directed some attention,during the past week, to the art of baking; and my son Wilkins hasissued forth with a walking-stick and driven cattle, whenpermitted, by the rugged hirelings who had them in charge, torender any voluntary service in that directionwhich I regret to say,for the credit of our nature, was not often; he being generallywarned, with imprecations, to desist.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began speaking of Harriet, and speaking of her with more voluntary praise than Emma had ever heard before.
-- To her voluntary communications Emma could get no more approving reply, than, 'Very well.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the gallant sergeant, who had come haymaking for pleasure; and nobody could deny that he was doing the mistress of the farm real knight-service by this voluntary contribution of his labour at a busy time.
-- Meanwhile, Bathsheba remained a voluntary prisoner in the attic.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer, who reigned supreme over this hospital supported by voluntary contributions.
-- He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The idea of renewing my labours did not for one instant occur to me; the threat I had heard weighed on my thoughts, but I did not reflect that a voluntary act of mine could avert it.
-- 248 FrankensteinChapter 24 y present situation was one in which all voluntary Mthought was swallowed up and lost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No; he said confidently, no!And, he said, Heaven forbid that Frederick should be there in any other character than in his present voluntary character!Gentlemen, whoever came to that College, to remain there a length of time, must have strength of character to go through a good deal and to come out of a good deal.
-- He, therefore, first requesting Mr Pancks to remember his voluntary declaration that his proprietor had no part in the disclosure, and that his own intentions were good (two declarations which that coaly little gentleman with the greatest ardour repeated), openly told him that as to the Dorrit lineage or former place of habitation, he had no information to communicate, and that his knowledge of the family did not extend beyond the fact that it appeared to be now reduced to five members; namely, to two brothers, of whom one was single, and one a widower with three children.
-- The whole body of travellers seemed to be a collection of voluntary human sacrifices, bound hand and foot, and delivered over to Mr Eustace and his attendants, to have the entrails of their intellects arranged according to the taste of that sacred priesthood.
-- To all this Clennam merely replied that, granting the whole protest, nothing in it lessened the force, or could lessen the force, of the voluntary and public exoneration of his partner.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language that man makes one in a whole nation's census a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- 'But, can you--oh!can you really believe that this delicate boy has been the voluntary associate of the worst outcasts of society?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Darcy often - acknowledged himself to be under the greatest obligations to my father's active superintendence, and when, immediately before my father's death, Mr. Darcy gave him a voluntary promise of providing for me, I am convinced that he felt it to be as much a debt of gratitude to HIM, as of his affection to myself.'
-- But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particu-lar notice.
-- It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their man-servant had been sent one morning to Exeter on business; and when, as he waited at table, he had satisfied the inquiries of his mistress as to the event of his errand, this was his voluntary communication "I suppose you know, ma'am, that Mr. Ferrars is married."
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