idea是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 想法， 念头； 概念， 观念； 意见， 主意，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the dead hush of mid-night, he could even hear the barking of the watchdog from the opposite shore of the Hudson; but it was so vague and faint as only to give an idea of his distance from this faith-ful companion of man.
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：
-- I was very young, and perhaps she liked the idea of guiding my virgin steps on the hard road of letters; while for me it was pleasant to have someone I could go to with my small troubles, certain of an attentive ear and reasonable counsel.
-- He gave you somewhat the idea of a coachman dressed up for the occasion.
-- When I had asked him what first gave him the idea of being a painter, he was unable or unwilling to tell me.
-- I don't think that Alec could have something on his mind for a year or more without my having a pretty shrewd idea of it."
-- She had had the idea of giving it a certain daintiness, and she made much use of blue and red inks; she bound the copy in coarse paper, that looked vaguely like watered silk, in various pale colours; and she had acquired a reputation for neatness and accuracy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus Jonathan Forster accordingly conceived the idea of rising in a balloon, so as to pass over the besieging lines, and in that way reach the Secessionist camp.
-- What astonished him was, that so simple an idea had not occurred to him before.
-- As long as the waves had not cast up the body of the engineer, as long as he, Neb, had not seen with his eyes, touched with his hands the corpse of his master, he would not believe in his death!And this idea rooted itself deeper than ever in his determined heart.
-- No description can give an idea of the terrific violence of the gale as it beat upon the unprotected coast.
-- Harding could not help smiling, and the sailor's idea was adopted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toll at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed and where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.
-- His attire was not, as he had himself hinted, remarkable for the nicest arrangement, but was in a state of disorder which strongly induced the idea that he had gone to bed in it.
-- 'Fred,' said Mr Swiveller stopping short, as if the idea had suddenly occurred to him, and speaking in the same audible whisper as before, 'is the old min friendly?'
-- 'Inspired by this idea and the sentiments it awakened, sir, and feeling as a mutual friend that badgering, baiting, and bullying, was not the sort of thing calculated to expand the souls and promote the social harmony of the contending parties, I took upon myself to suggest a course which is the course to be adopted to the present occasion.
-- Many things he had said which I had been at a loss to understand, were quite reconcilable with the idea thus presented to me, and at length I concluded that beyond all doubt he was one of this unhappy race.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is more likely that her coming to the hotel for the money suggested to the servants the idea of stealing it; that they stole it and then threw it all upon her."
-- At first she thought that she misunderstood it; she could not believe what she heard, and could not reconcile herself to the idea that she was a convict.
-- The idea that for the sake of moral satisfaction he would sacrifice everything and marry her this morning particularly affected him.
-- With such an idea of life, Maslova considered herself a most important person.
-- From one point of view, she rather liked the idea of his marrying Katiousha.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then, as the idea came home to him, he resorted to caricature.
-- The idea was received with melodious applause; and presently they were all running to and fro for flowers, and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom.
-- It was natural on that golden evening that I should jump at the idea of a social paradise.
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