latent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 潜伏的, 潜在的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
-- But nothing doubting that to whomsoever they applied they had some latent moral for his own improve-ment, he resolved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw; and especially to observe the shadow of himself when it appeared.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it was such vapouring all about his ears, like a troublesome confu-sion of blood in his own head, added to a latent uneasiness in his mind, which had already made Charles Darnay rest-less, and which still kept him so.
-- The latent uneasiness in Darnay's mind was roused to vi-gourous life by this letter.
-- His latent uneasiness had been, that bad aims were being worked out in his own unhappy land by bad instru-344 A tale of two citiesments, and that he who could not fail to know that he was better than they, was not there, trying to do something to stay bloodshed, and assert the claims of mercy and human-ity.
-- Perhaps the following silence, perhaps some latent dis-closure in the expression of Miss Pross's face, perhaps a sudden misgiving apart from either suggestion, whispered to Madame Defarge that they were gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I slept soundly until we got toYarmouth: which was so entirely new and strange to me in the inn-yard to which we drove, that I at once abandoned a latent hope Ihad had of meeting with some of Mr. Peggotty's family there,perhaps even with little Em'ly herself.
-- Although a mind like my friendCopperfield's'; to Uriah and Mrs. Heep; 'does not require thatcultivation which, without his knowledge of men and things, itwould require, still it is a rich soil teeming with latent vegetation-in short,' said Mr. Micawber, smiling, in another burst ofconfidence, 'it is an intellect capable of getting up the classics toany extent.'
-- I have still a latent belief that she must have been Mrs. Crupp'sdaughter in disguise, we had such an awful time of it with MaryAnne.
-- 'Without more directly referring to any latent ability that maypossibly exist on my part, of wielding the thunderbolt, or directingthe devouring and avenging flame in any quarter, I may bepermitted to observe, in passing, that my brightest visions are forever dispelledthat my peace is shattered and my power ofenjoyment destroyedthat my heart is no longer in the right place- 648and that I no more walk erect before my fellow-man.
-- I know the latent power of Mr. Micawber.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was food for great regret with him; it was also a contretemps which touched into life a latent heat he had experienced in that direction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I reflected that even in those untoward times there must have been latent in Biddy what was now developing, for, in my first uneasiness and discontent I had turned to her for help, as a matter of course.
-- I laughed in spite of myself all the time, the whole thing was so droll; and yet I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution,--not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very uphill and downhill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.
-- I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as a relief, notwithstanding its irreconcilability with my latent desire to keep my eye on the coach-office.
-- He looked rather sly when I mentioned Miss Skiffins, and stopped in the street to blow his nose, with a roll of the head, and a flourish not quite free from latent boastfulness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Things having come to this pass, and showing no latent signs of stirring beyond it, the upshot of Mr. Bounderby's investigations was, that he resolved to hazard a bold burst.
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：
-- And she knew the thought of their separation was latent in both their minds, and at last she was sad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as scrubby and dingy as ever, and as eager and quick as ever, and he could see nothing lurking in it that was at all expressive of a latent mockery that had seemed to strike upon his ear in the voice.
-- She continued to look at him; and if, when he entered the house, he had had any latent hope of prevailing in the least with her, she now looked it out of his heart.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.
-- 'tis now that I do feel the latent horror in thee!but 'tis not me!that horror's out of me!and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures!Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye blessed influences!
-- Yet these, perhaps, instead of being the unsuppressable symptoms of some latent weakness, or fright at his own resolve, were but the plainest tokens of its intensity.
-- Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before.
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