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：
-- He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey dif-ferent significations by the simplest inflections of the voice.
-- In this manner they proceeded in uninterrupted silence, except when Heyward addressed some solitary word of comfort to the females, or David gave vent to the moanings of his spirit, in piteous exclamations, which he intended should express the humility of resignation.
-- Duncan, who interpreted this speech to express a wish for some additional pledge that the promised gifts should not be withheld, slowly and reluctantly repaired to the place where the sisters were now resting from their fatigue, to communicate its purport to Cora.
-- David composed his features into what he intended should express an air of modest humility, before he meekly replied: 'Little be the praise to such a worm as I.
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：
-- Too shy to express my sympathy, I turned to say good-bye to the Colonel.
-- "Have you found out who" I did not quite know how to express myself "who the person, who it is he's gone away with?"
-- He seemed to express himself with difficulty, as though words were not the medium with which his mind worked; and you had to guess the intentions of his soul by hackneyed phrases, slang, and vague, unfinished gestures.
-- She made me translate what she could only express in her own tongue, and eagerly asked for the meaning of his replies.
-- He did not express himself quite like this.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the event of this, the cart would have been of more use than the light canoe, but it was heavy and clumsy to drag, and therefore more difficult to use; this led Pencroft to express his regret that the chest had not contained, besides "his halfpound of tobacco," a pair of strong New Jersey horses, which would have been very useful to the colony!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be impossible for any man, I care not what his form of speech might be, to express more affection than the dealer in curiosities did, in these four words.
-- The little man turned to the child as if to chide her or express his wonder, but as she was talking to the young man, held his peace, and bent his head to listen.
-- 'May the present moment,' said Dick, sticking his fork into a large carbuncular potato, 'be the worst of our lives!I like the plan of sending 'em with the peel on; there's a charm in drawing a potato from its native element (if I may so express it) to which the rich and powerful are strangers.
-- Moreover, he sent an express to the wharf for the tumbling boy, who arriving with all despatch was enjoined to sit himself down in another chair just inside the door, continually to smoke a great pipe which the dwarf had provided for the purpose, and to take it from his lips under any pretence whatever, were it only for one minute at a time, if he dared.
-- Having seen the old lady safely in her seat, and assisted in the arrangement of her cloak and a small basket which formed an indispensable portion of her equipage, Mr Abel got into a little box behind which had evidently been made for his express accommodation, and smiled at everybody present by turns, beginning with his mother and ending with the pony.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Gentlemen of the jury, the case which is now to be submitted to your consideration," he began his speech, prepared while the indictment and reports were being read, "is a characteristic crime, if I may so express myself."
-- "Here is before you, gentlemen of the jury, a crime characteristic, if I may so express myself, of the end of our century, bearing, as it were, all the specific features of the first symptoms of decomposition, to which those elements of our society, which are exposed, as it were, to the more scorching rays of that process, are subject."
-- He understood that nominally, if one may so express himself, he was in the right; he had never said anything to bind himself to her; had made no offer, but in reality he felt that he had bound himself to her, that he had promised to be hers.
-- Il est d'une bont脙漏----" She stopped, not finding words to express bont脙漏 of a husband, and immediately, smiling, turned to an old, wrinkled woman in lilac-colored bows who had just entered.
-- The clerk smiled, as though he had been thinking of the same thing, and was very glad to hear it, but in reality did not understand it, not because Nekhludoff did not express himself plainly enough, but because, according to this project, Nekhludoff deprived himself of advantages for the benefit of others, whereas the truth that every man strives to obtain advantages at the expense of others, was so firmly rooted in the clerk's mind, that he thought that he misunderstood Nekhludoff when the latter said that the entire income of the land was to go into the community's treasury.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In writing it down I feel with only too much keenness the inadequacy of pen and ink and, above all, my own inadequacy to express its quality.
-- Then, hesitating for a moment how to express Time, I pointed to the sun.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rolled his eyes round heavily, but he was too far gone to express surprise.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And think what destruction such a mass would cause, if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel."
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