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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now listen to me,' said the dying woman aloud, as if making a great effort to revive one latent spark of energy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is worthy of remark, too, as illustrating a little feature in the character of Miss Sally Brass, that, although on her own account she would have borne the discomforts of the Wilderness with a very ill grace, and would probably, indeed, have walked off before the tea appeared, she no sooner beheld the latent uneasiness and misery of her brother than she developed a grim satisfaction, and began to enjoy herself after her own manner.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had some power of initiative, latent before, which now began to exert itself.
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：
-- A latent gift might reveal itself on acquaintance with the painters and writers whose society his wife sought; or domestic incompatability might turn him upon himself; a love affair might fan into bright flame a fire which I could have shown smouldering dimly in his heart.
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