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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We, on the contrary, had no end to restrain ourselves; we could draw this air freely into our lungs, and it was the breeze, the breeze alone, that filled us with this keen enjoyment.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then she experienced a keen paroxyism, a transport, as if she had made some incredible discovery, known to nobody else on earth.
-- In Birkin's face was a little irritable tension, a sharp knitting of the brows, keen and difficult.
-- His blue, keen eyes were lit up with laughter, his ruddy face, with its sharp fair hair, was full of satisfaction, and glowing with life.
-- The soft sharp boughs beat upon him, as he moved in keen pangs against them, threw little cold showers of drops on his belly, and beat his loins with their clusters of soft-sharp needles.
-- He bit himself down on the mare like a keen edge biting home, and forced her round.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Slight and ridiculous as the incident was, it made him appear such a little fiend, and withal such a keen and knowing one, that the old woman felt too much afraid of him to utter a single word, and suffered herself to be led with extraordinary politeness to the breakfast-table.
-- 'You're a keen questioner, an't you, Mrs Quilp?'
-- It had not escaped his keen eye that some indispensable articles of clothing were gone with the fugitives, and knowing the old man's weak state of mind, he marvelled what that course of proceeding might be in which he had so readily procured the concurrence of the child.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and it seemed to me that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!
-- Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain.
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