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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tell you it is all as new to me as it is to Dr. Watson, and I'm as keen as possible to see the moor.'
-- Any night, for ex-ample, our neighbours the Stapletons might be attacked by him, and it may have been the thought of this which made Sir Henry so keen upon the adventure.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They liked good soci-ety, but were not too keen about it.
-- He wished to marry well, and, more-over, he was a keen admirer and judge of beauty.
-- One was that Nastasia had entered into close and secret relations with the Epanchin girls a most unlikely rumour; another was that Nastasia had long satisfied herself of the fact that Gania was merely marrying her for money, and that his nature was gloomy and greedy, impatient and self-ish, to an extraordinary degree; and that although he had been keen enough in his desire to achieve a conquest before, yet since the two friends had agreed to exploit his passion for their own purposes, it was clear enough that he had begun to consider the whole thing a nuisance and a nightmare.
-- To this keen question I replied as keenly, 'The Russian heart can recognize a great man even in the bitter enemy of his country.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the axe in his hand, so keen is the edge of your scorn.
-- The squires of Idomeneus spoiled him of his armour, while Menelaus, son of Atreus, killed Scamandrius the son of Strophius, a mighty huntsman and keen lover of the chase.
-- The oath he swore was bootless, but it made Dolon more keen on going.
-- BOOK XIII OW when Jove had thus brought Hector and the Tro-Njans to the ships, he left them to their never-ending toil, and turned his keen eyes away, looking elsewhither towards the horse-breeders of Thrace, the Mysians, fighters at close quarters, the noble Hippemolgi, who live on milk, and the Abians, justest of mankind.
-- Close Jove's keen eyes for me in slumber while I hold him clasped in my embrace, and I will give you a beautiful golden seat, that can never fall to pieces; my clubfooted son Vulcan shall make it for you, and he shall give it a footstool for you to rest your fair feet upon when you are at table.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An ugly-looking man, a hunch-backed human savage to all appearance, squatting in the aperture of one of the dens, would stretch his arms and yawn, showing with startling suddenness scissor-edged in-cisors and sabre-like canines, keen and brilliant as knives.
-- I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere, none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Encouraged by his opinion, Alice did what her pious inclinations, and her keen relish for gentle sounds, had be-fore so strongly urged.
-- Casting his keen eyes around the lit-tle plain, he comprehended the nature of the assault at a glance, and encouraging his followers by his voice as well as by his example, he unsheathed his long and dangerous knife, and rushed with a loud whoop upon the expected Chingachgook.
-- Raising a shout of triumph, he sprang toward the defenseless Cora, sending his keen axe as the dreadful precursor of his approach.
-- 'Not of all; for Indian sight is too keen to be easily cheat-ed, and we kept close.
-- The eyes of the Sagamore moved warily from islet to islet, and copse to copse, as the canoe proceeded; and, when a clearer sheet of water permitted, his keen vision was bent along the bald rocks and impending forests that frowned upon the narrow strait.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Did you never know that he was keen on that sort of thing."
-- I recognised my moral weakness, but saw that my disapprobation had in it already something of a pose; and I knew that if I felt it, his own keen instinct had discovered it, too.
-- Age and obesity had made her inapt for love, but she took a keen interest in the amatory affairs of the young.
-- He had a deep, resonant voice, fitted to his massive frame, and a keen sense of the dramatic.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I observed that every now and then she stole a curious look at my face, as if to make quite sure that I was not deceiving her, and that these glances (very sharp and keen they were too) seemed to increase her confidence at every repetition.
-- With that he bowed and leered at me, and with a keen glance around which seemed to comprehend every object within his range of vision, however, small or trivial, went his way.
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