express是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 表达， 表示a. 特快的， 快速的n. 快车， 快运，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If a fool's head can't express better opinions than that," said my sister, "and you have got any work to do, you had better go and do it."
-- Though he called me Mr. Pip, and began rather to make up to me, he still could not get rid of a certain air of bullying suspicion; and even now he occasionally shut his eyes and threw his finger at me while he spoke, as much as to express that he knew all kinds of things to my disparagement, if he only chose to mention them.
-- Understand, that I express no opinion, one way or other, on the trust I undertake.
-- Biddy nodded her head thoughtfully at the fire as she took up her work again, and said she would be very particular; and Joe, still detaining his knees, said, "Ay, ay, I'll be ekervally partickler, Pip;" and then they congratulated me again, and went on to express so much wonder at the notion of my being a gentleman that I didn't half like it.
-- He was still sweeping when I came out into the shop with Mr. Trabb, and he knocked the broom against all possible corners and obstacles, to express (as I understood it) equality with any blacksmith, alive or dead.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We began already to con-verse together in some sort; and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire 'that he would please give me my liber-ty;' which I every day repeated on my knees.
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
-- '2d, He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors.
-- '5th, If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man- mountain shall be obliged to carry, in his pocket, the messenger and horse a six days journey, once in every moon, and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to our imperial presence.
-- But I defy the trea-surer, or his two informers (I will name them, and let them make the best of it) Clustril and Drunlo, to prove that any person ever came to me incognito, except the secretary Rel-dresal, who was sent by express command of his imperial majesty, as I have before related.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not that they knew, by name or nature, anything about an Ogre Fact forbid!I only use the word to express a monster in a lecturing castle, with Heaven knows how many heads manipulated into one, taking childhood captive, and dragging it into gloomy statistical dens by the hair.
-- 'And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of to-day, though in itself a trifling one, as if something had crept into Thomas's and Louisa's minds which is or rather, which is not I don't know that I can express myself better than by saying which has never been intended to be developed, and in which their reason has no part.'
-- 'It is creditable to you, who have never been apprenticed, to express that opinion,' returned Mr. Gradgrind, approvingly.
-- She was gone by and by, and the day went after her, and the lights sprung up again, and the Express whirled in full sight of the Fairy Palace over the arches near: little felt amid the jarring of the machinery, and scarcely heard above its crash and rattle.
-- Mr. Bounderby has made his proposal of marriage to me, and has entreated me to make it known to you, and to express his hope that you will take it into your favourable consideration.'
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：
-- Sometimes he was handsome: sometimes as he looked sideways, down-wards, and the light fell on him, he had the silent, enduring beauty of a carved ivory Negro mask, with his rather full eyes, and the strong queerly-arched brows, the immobile, compressed mouth; that momentary but revealed immobil-ity, an immobility, a timelessness which the Buddha aims at, and which Negroes express sometimes without ever aim-ing at it; something old, old, and acquiescent in the race!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Remember, I saw his face when he gave the watch into my keeping, and struggled to express that he sent it as a token you would understand, to you.
-- Witnessing these things, the collegians would express an opinion that the turnkey, who was a bachelor, had been cut out by nature for a family man.
-- It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office.
-- He would, and he did; and in the drawing-room, with his leg on a rest, he found Mr Barnacle himself, the express image and presentment of How not to do it.
-- 'I don't express an opinion about that; I only express an opinion about you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew my father years ago, and he sent me a polite note this afternoon, saying he hoped I would allow him to express his friendly feeling toward my children by sending them a few trifles in honor of the day.
-- And he waved his hands, as if words failed to express his admiration.
-- I am more sorry than I can express for the mischief this visit may have done you, Meg.'
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