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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes they went perfectly smoothly along without jolts or jerks, and sometimes on the contrary, the plateau would reel and roll like a ship in a storm, coasting past abysses in which fragments of the mountain were falling, tearing up trees by the roots, and leveling, as if with the keen edge of an immense scythe, every projection of the declivity.
-- His great height gave him a commanding view of the whole horizon; but after a keen rapid survey, he quickly resumed his seat and went on.
-- Kai-Koumou treated him with a certain tone of respect, and by the fineness of his tattoo, it was easy to perceive that Kara-Tete held a lofty position in the tribe, but a keen observer would have guessed the feeling of rivalry that existed between these two chiefs.
-- Keen disappointment was depicted on the faces of Glenarvan and the Major.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the at-tempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.
-- A lad of fourteen, with a bright, keen face, had obeyed the summons of the manager.
-- Holmes sat in silence in the cab as we drove back to Baker Street, and I knew from his drawn brows and keen face that his mind, like my own, was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently discon-nected episodes could be fitted.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, he has been like a son to us, and we are very fond of him,' replied Mrs. March, returning the look with a keen one.
-- Jo's keen eyes were rather dim for a minute, and her thin face grew rosy in the firelight as she received her father's praise, feeling that she did deserve a portion of it.
-- These offend-ing features gave character to her whole face, but she never could see it, and consoled herself with her wonderfully fair complexion, keen blue eyes, and curls more golden and abundant than ever.
-- It cost him no effort to be generous, and he would have given Amy all the trinkets in Nice if she would have taken them, but at the same time he felt that he could not change the opinion she was form-ing of him, and he rather dreaded the keen blue eyes that seemed to watch him with such half-sorrowful, half-scorn-ful surprise.
-- Her keen eyes filled, and when she spoke again, it was in a voice that could be beautifully soft and kind when she chose to make it so.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
-- Or, being armed with their long keen whaling spears, they were as a picked trio of lancers; even as the harpooneers were flingers of javelins.
-- "Stab me not with that keen steel!Cant them; cant them over!know ye not the goblet end?
-- All four boats were now in keen pursuit of that one spot of troubled water and air.
-- It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe!The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side; all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood; all this was thrilling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble's awkwardness was enhanced by the very remarkable expression of the stranger's eye, which was keen and bright, but shadowed by a scowl of distrust and suspicion, unlike anything he had ever observed before, and repulsive to behold.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A strong physical nature, actuated by a keen desire for the feminine, was the next.
-- Their clothes were neat, in many instances fine, and wherever she encountered the eye of one it was only to recognise in it a keen analysis of her own position--her individual shortcomings of dress and that shadow of manner which she thought must hang about her and make clear to all who and what she was.
-- When dining, it was a source of keen satisfaction to him to know that Joseph Jefferson was wont to come to this same place, or that Henry E. Dixie, a well-known performer of the day, was then only a few tables off.
-- The sparrow upon the wire, the cat in the doorway, the dray horse tugging his weary load, feel the long, keen breaths of winter.
-- "Served him right," said Drouet afterward, even in view of her keen expiation of her error.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Pinocchio was keen of eye and swift of movement, and the books only passed over his head, landed in the sea, and disappeared.
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