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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The keen instincts of Bathsheba had perceived that the farmer's staunch devotion to herself was still undiminished, and she sympathized deeply.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!how my heart beat!I began to think----" "That she was coming here," said Vautrin, with a keen look at the student.
-- de Restaud's heart; unwittingly--therein lies my offence," said the student of law, whose keen brain had served him sufficiently well, for he had detected the biting epigrams that lurked beneath this friendly talk.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.
-- The magistrate observed me with a keen eye and of course drew an unfavourable augury from my manner.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His body seemed so tough and hard, as tough and hardas his keen mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She quite gloated on these questions and answers, so keen was her enjoyment of Sarah Pocket's jealous dismay.
-- Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Witch-es have red eyes, and cannot see far, but they have a keen scent like the beasts, and are aware when human beings draw near.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet the keen air acted violently on my nervous system; sky, earth, all seemed to swim round, while the steeple rocked like a ship.
-- Next day, when we awoke under the rays of a bright and glorious sun, we were nearly frozen by the keen air.
-- Hans laid out some provisions on a lump of lava, and we each supped with keen relish.
-- Exhaustion, the keen atmosphere, the state of calm after so much agitation, all contributed to give me an excellent appetite.
-- The clever and patient hunter had succeeded in lighting the lantern; and though, in the keen and thorough draft, the flame Flickered and vacillated and was nearly put out, it served partially to dissipate the awful obscurity.
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：
-- Clifford anyhow was not just keen on his 'sat-isfaction', as so many men seemed to be.
-- Connie was not keen on chains, but she said nothing.
-- She had not been so very keen on Michaelis; till he started it, she did not want him.
-- But Connie was not keen on going to London, and being steered into the smart world by Lady Bennerley.
-- He looked at her with his keen blue eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A shuffling step was soon heard on the stone floor of the hall, and the door was opened by an old man, bent and dried, but with keen eyes.
-- He had a candle in his hand, and he held it up for a moment to assist his keen eyes.
-- She looked at Mrs Gowan with keen and unabated interest; the sound of her voice was thrilling to her; nothing that was near her, or about her, or at all concerned her, escaped Little Dorrit.
-- 'And the people of those other two places, now,' pursued Bar, with a bright twinkle in his keen eye, as it slightly turned in the direction of his magnificent neighbour; 'we lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner; the people of those other two places now?
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