keen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 锋利的, 尖锐的, 强烈的; 敏锐的; 渴望的，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：
-- The barrister was keen enough to divine that the banker would not have gone so far in his expression of opinion on any less solid ground than moral certainty.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he got out of the train at Petersburg, he felt after his sleepless night as keen and fresh as after a cold bath.
-- With a child's keen instinct for every manifestation of feeling, he saw distinctly that his father, his governess, his nurse,--all did not merely dislike Vronsky, but looked on him with horror and aversion, though they never said anything about him, while his mother looked on him as her greatest friend.
-- Sergey Ivanovitch listened attentively, asked him questions, and, roused by a new listener, he talked fluently, uttered a few keen and weighty observations, respectfully appreciated by the young doctor, and was soon in that eager frame of mind his brother knew so well, which always, with him, followed a brilliant and eager conversation.
-- She knew him, and knew that he would be a good match for her young lady, and was very keen to see the matter settled.
-- "A capital fellow, and a keen sportsman," as Stepan Arkadyevitch said, introducing him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day, he had the curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two, three days now you haf not been keen about work."
-- That a keen young man should make a comrade of a girl who could not bring him social advancement, that such a thing as the boy and girl passion between Martin and Leora could exist, was probably inconceivable to him.
-- He picked out a keen old man and tried to make him laugh and marvel.
-- "So do I. I was keen on mathematics in Williams," said Tredgold.
-- The Martin Arrowsmith who had been supercilious toward Pickerbaugh and old Dr. Winters had for Rouncefield and Angus Duer and the other keen taut specialists of the clinic only the respect of the poor and uncertain for the rich and shrewd.
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：
-- His face, bloated from continual drinking, was of a yellow, even greenish, tinge, with swollen eyelids out of which keen reddish eyes gleamed like little chinks.
-- Meanwhile it would seem, as regards the moral question, that his analy-sis was complete; his casuistry had become keen as a razor, and he could not find rational objections in himself.
-- Either his senses were peculiarly keen (which it is difficult to suppose), or the sound was really very distinct.
-- The ladies slowly followed Razumihin, who went on before, and when they reached the landlady's door on the fourth storey, they noticed that her door was a tiny crack open and that two keen black eyes were watching them from the darkness within.
-- But why are you so keen about virtue?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I beg your pardon,' observedmy aunt with a keen look.
-- Rosa Dartle's keen glancecomprehended all of us.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was too much domestic happiness in his brother's house; woman wore too amiable a form in it; Isabella was too much like Emma differing only in those striking infe-riorities, which always brought the other in brilliancy before him, for much to have been done, even had his time been longer. He had stayed on, however, vigorously, day after day till this very morning's post had conveyed the histo-ry of Jane Fairfax. Then, with the gladness which must be felt, nay, which he did not scruple to feel, having never be-lieved Frank Churchill to be at all deserving Emma, was there so much fond solicitude, so much keen anxiety for her, that he could stay no longer.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If 'twasn't for your place here, malter, I don't know what I should do i' this keen weather.
-- These circling gleams were accompanied by a keen rush that was almost a whistling also springing from all sides of her at once.
-- He saw the square figure sitting erect upon the horse, the head turned to neither side, the elbows steady by the hips, the brim of the hat level and undisturbed in its onward glide, until the keen edges of Boldwood's shape sank by degrees over the hill.
-- Bathsheba's ears were keen as those of any wild animal, and she distinctly heard what the speaker said, though her back was towards him.
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